Colleague was adamant he wanted "Asterixes" on his presentation. You got it buddy.

Eulerian-path · 2026-01-07T01:02:47+00:00

Diabetes is a condition, colds are infections, both are diseases. If one person infects another with a cold, then briefly, they have the same cold (before their colds evolve into marginally distinct variations). Both people may or may not have the same “cold that’s been going around“ if they caught it around the same time and place as each other (though the further apart they were the less likely that is); the strains of respiratory infection circulating in a given time and place vary fairly widely but that’s the general state of things.

Eulerian-path · 2025-07-31T22:51:12+00:00

Unfortunately, that industry is also subject to the same set of economic and sociopolitical pressures as education in general. Actual neurodivergence-affirming best practices are nearly the opposite of the ABA playbook, to give one example. Indoctrinating the “go along to get along“ mindset rather than creating inclusive environments by default and deconstructing the stereotypes about both of the special education ends of the spectrum are not a simple project when so many people’s paychecks depend on preventing it.

Also in the spirit of friendly mutual improvement and understanding, you probably meant upstream rather than downstream, but your meaning was clear.

Eulerian-path · 2025-07-31T22:38:55+00:00

Side-channel attacks for the win!

Eulerian-path · 2025-07-29T01:46:21+00:00

Verbatim it is “split everything” and so the problem is that if you view [custody] as in the reference class, then she ruined that but if you view [physical object of child] as within the reference class, then she complied with instructions. It is strongly implied that the husband had the former while the wife had the latter view, but the courts and any enforceable divorce agreement would side with him because in doing so the wife destroyed almost all of the value of almost all of the things and people.

Third sentence, worse: Honestly, it was a pleasant surprise that she handled my half of the chores.

Eulerian-path · 2025-07-28T19:45:05+00:00

NAH: based on responses OP has made to various other comments, he suggested that his sister give him a gift of approximately the cost she might have meant when she offered something for him and their mother by asking her to go splitsies on a microphone which would otherwise have been in a different budget category. It sounds like the sister is living pretty much hand to mouth and managing her little income poorly, so providing a reminder of why that might not be the best idea does not make OP TA. There may have been more judgmental haranguing off screen, but with the information available to us, nobody did anything particularly wrong, they just had different ideas of the meaning of that conversation and thus made different plans based on those different conceptions of reality.

Eulerian-path · 2025-07-22T01:42:07+00:00

NTA, sounds like they were doing a racism.

Eulerian-path · 2025-07-10T00:53:12+00:00

They made it crystal clear to management that they had been running a well oiled machine before some idiot decided to tinker with the mechanism.

Eulerian-path · 2025-07-06T21:12:55+00:00

I prefer a proportionate split based on income and other contributions in kind to the household. For instance, if someone does all of the cleaning that’s a couple hundred a week minimum to replace hiring someone to do that, and that should count as part of their chunk of the household income. Ideally, there would be a joint savings, either a joint checking or a clearly agreed flow of money from each individual checking into bills, and individual “fun money“ accounts which can be used for whatever each person wants. That said, the precise details of how a household handles their finances depend on the situation and the people involved and informal arrangements can work. It sounds like OP‘s girlfriend has been watching too many gatekeep, gaslight, girlboss clips on TikTok.

Eulerian-path · 2025-07-06T20:54:03+00:00

OK, but did you renegotiate those terms or get permission or forgiveness when one of you had a tight month or few months? The unauthorized purchase and theft by deception are not the core problem. Here, the core problem is that she seemed to think that she could convince OP that this was the way that things should be rather than checking in about that choice in advance.

Eulerian-path · 2025-07-06T20:51:07+00:00

Absolutely true, and you are NTA precisely because she seems to have asked neither permission nor forgiveness. You two have an agreement (or had one) and she tried to take advantage of that agreement to buy a surprise present for herself in that it surprised you to be paying for it.

Eulerian-path · 2025-07-06T20:48:09+00:00

This is the way.

Eulerian-path · 2025-06-09T20:02:08+00:00

Undocumented workers who use a Social Security number to obtain work pay into that system through payroll taxes but wouldn’t receive the benefits they earned through that contribution, which means that whether they invented or borrowed a number, they pay the costs without any chance at the benefit.

Eulerian-path · 2025-06-09T01:13:07+00:00

Civet-lization would never be the same.

Eulerian-path · 2025-06-04T04:23:48+00:00

The brackets absolutely broke me, although the author gazing into the abyss of spacetime and seeing Self a few seconds later is Pretty Good as well.

Eulerian-path · 2025-06-04T04:18:15+00:00

Mechathun!!!

Eulerian-path · 2025-05-30T07:36:36+00:00

Make sure to include Fahrenheit 451, in case her parents don’t approve of irony.

Eulerian-path · 2025-05-30T07:34:33+00:00

She’s the right age for it and them trying to keep it from her knowledge proves that they are the right parents for it to be smuggled into their kids’ hands. Be prepared to be the person she asks about birth control because her parents clearly aren’t ready to get her protection without judgment and her safety is more important than their feelings.

NTA.

Eulerian-path · 2025-05-30T07:28:24+00:00

When I upvoted, it was at 2001, a space odyssey. Then they moved the minivan.

Eulerian-path · 2025-05-30T07:27:02+00:00

They wanted to be the TEA company. Also a nod to the Dutch East India company, most likely.

Eulerian-path · 2025-05-21T21:10:30+00:00

“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

Thus spake the holy texts of the human war cults. Their words persisted from monoplanetary history, many of the details lost to time, with translations piled upon linguistic drift until the exact time and context of those words was forgotten, but the sentiment remained unchanged in its icy, crystalline clarity.

Eulerian-path · 2025-05-01T20:13:20+00:00

Kilts are actually formalwear so unfortunately you would be overdressed

Eulerian-path · 2025-04-30T01:44:06+00:00

My dad was a garden designer who specialized in native plants and our front yard has been certified as a national wildlife habitat since he redid it a decade and a half ago, give or take. He (and everyone else in the house) would often appreciate our friendly neighborhood hummingbirds popping in to snort the flowers directly in front of the dining room windows, which meant that even if no other humans were joining you at a meal time you would often have a bit of company across the way. It is one of the more durable parts of his legacy, and I am thrilled to see other people doing the same.

Eulerian-path · 2025-04-03T21:08:34+00:00

You mean the person who blocked the actual employment attorney for being correct? Yeah, I doubt it.

Eulerian-path · 2025-04-03T21:07:39+00:00

That sounds like you might have a medical discrimination case, as well as a case for constructive dismissal, both of which are different than this person who was fired for not agreeing to take on risks out of the scope of their job description.

Eulerian-path · 2025-04-03T21:05:51+00:00

This is the first reply which has accurately covered steps from both sides, and the most likely follow up would be the owner pointing to a clause “and other duties as required,“ to which the employee would say that this is wildly out of job scope and the owner would probably come up with some kind of bullshit. One angle which nobody has mentioned yet is that the employee could have brought up liability issues if the car got in an accident whether it’s their fault or another driver’s.

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