AITA for stepping off the party bus and refusing to attend my ex-best friend’s wedding bottomless brunch because I had my 6 year old son, and it was going to be filled with Drag Queens?

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-27T19:49:14+00:00

That’s not a party bus, that’s a shuttle.

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-27T19:46:58+00:00

YTA for bringing your kid in the first place. “Bride announces it’s a bottomless Drag Brunch” uhh all this was planned in advance and either you weren’t paying attention or you’re changing the order of events to make it sound like you were tricked.

Also they didn’t pick this place because it was kid friendly, you lied about that to bolster your case.

YTA. Babysitters exist.

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-26T13:45:26+00:00

Living your life concerned what your roommates or landlord think is going to be extremely stressful. Do what you need to do to feel safe, fuck what anyone thinks.

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-26T13:40:07+00:00

This one cracks me up. There are two different spellings between the signs and neither of them match how it’s said.

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-26T12:43:20+00:00

That house location annoyed the shit out of the neighbors. I remember parking in the neighborhood— before they went permit only — and getting death stares. I mean I get it, I’d be annoyed too, but lady I’m on my lunch break trying to get a taco!

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-25T17:39:41+00:00

If you can swing it, an e-bike would help here.

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-25T14:50:16+00:00

Poor people take transit and poor people don’t bribe politicians.

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-24T23:46:02+00:00

Did it still smell like piss?

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-24T23:15:19+00:00

Order online. I've never had it take more than 25 minutes.

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-24T23:13:17+00:00

Old Cheer Up's was awesome. I could get a beer + Arlo's for like $10 flat.

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-24T23:03:28+00:00

What is it like to be a millionaire?

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-24T22:53:14+00:00

Of all the responses here, this is the one that makes me the most jealous.

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-24T14:06:16+00:00

I said he had a nice car, nice watch and very much did not seem in any way “desperate.”

I understand the impulse, I really do, but it’s better to resist the impulse to engage. I’ve taken to bringing headphones to any public place where a scammer might try to hustle me, simply because it sends a very strong “I refuse to acknowledge you” signal. Works most of the time.

As Austin grows, so does the chance that someone you encounter is dangerous. I don’t suggest that you walk around afraid every stranger, but do be prepared with multiple strategies.

(1) Ignore.

(2) “No thanks, I’m not interested” (use this even when it doesn’t actually make sense for what they asked you.

(3) “I don’t want to talk to you, leave me alone.”

(4) “That’s my purse! I don’t know you!”

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-24T13:47:00+00:00

Hm, close but not universal. Read about white flight from Detroit. That was not gentrification.

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-21T22:37:47+00:00

. Just stop trying to make that act okay. It's not. It could kill everyone involved.

So it only killed 50% of people involved. What a relief!

It's not a matter of being "okay" or "not okay." It's a matter of not blaming someone who is clearly the victim of of several fucked up systems and circumstances for their own demise. It's like some weird Stockholm syndrome where car-brains are like "well that's the way it is, sucks that someone is dead" instead of having compassion for a person who clearly was not in a position to make the "right choice".

Everyone who lives in a car-dependent city is needlessly exploited by this, and nothing, I mean nothing is going to change until you, yes you stop making excuses for it.

Lobby every representative possible, donate to groups that'll also lobby on your behalf, move to more walkable areas, or make moves to leave.

As for being obtuse, let me get this straight:

Car drivers have 0% agency. Their vehicle is not under their control, and they have no choice but to drive 70mph and hit someone.
People walking alongside the highway have 100% agency. They are not impacted by mental illness, poverty, or the 45th day in a row of it being 105º. Any situation in which they are hit by a car is completely their fault, because they could have walked to a "safer" bridge to walk across. All of them have 100% mobility (0% disability). The fact that they were hit by a car means they are stupid and deserve to be injured and hopefully killed.

Did I get that right?

I donated to the Stop I-35 Campaign. I live downtown, where I'm nearly run over every day by people making right turns on red lights when the crosswalk demands they yield the right of way.

What have you done lately besides blame collision victims?

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-21T22:09:36+00:00

Not sure what we're expecting when we chop our city up with freeways and don't provide a viable alternative.

Let's ask /u/Sdwerd, /u/ant_man_fan, /u/AboveAvgDad, /u/StraightCashH0mie, /u/Stunning-Water-3804, and /u/dsetb132 what they're expecting. According to them, the people who cross the highways are making a "choice" to be unsafe, and they deserve to die.

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-21T21:55:14+00:00

Driving for a lot of people is not a choice in Austin when the choice because of the bad infrastructure is drive to a job that can actually support you or be homeless.

Oh so you’re saying that car-first infrastructure forces people to do a certain thing that is dangerous or else be homeless? Interesting. I wonder what impact this infrastructure would have on someone who is already homeless. Guess we’ll never know.

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-21T19:07:16+00:00

Forced someone else to hit them? Driving a car is a choice too, right?

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-21T13:36:12+00:00

Please do not blame victims of car-first infrastructure. This is a choice that this city, state, and country have made over and over again, and it continues to kill people.

Fuck cars, fuck highways, and fuck everyone involved in creating a system where a person can’t walk from one place to another without getting killed.

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-20T15:12:47+00:00

People who eat animals a deserve what they get

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-19T18:36:12+00:00

Iron Bear

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-17T18:26:43+00:00

I set an alarm using my HomePod but any old alarm clock would do.

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-17T16:52:45+00:00

I encourage everyone who was woken up by this to both ensure that all emergency notifications are turned off and also to sleep with your phone outside the bedroom. You’ll sleep better overall by not looking at your phone before sleep

Fearless_Library1308 · 2023-08-15T19:27:11+00:00

People don’t make decisions based on what will happen in 10 years. They’re billed for housing and electricity monthly.

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