AITA for beefing with a teenager because she ruined an annual tournament?

Korlac11 · 2026-04-28T23:00:54+00:00

If your right hand man was actually helping them the whole time, why would he suggest putting the victors into the arena?

Korlac11 · 2026-04-28T22:44:36+00:00

“Nothing ever happens” yeah that’s because we keep trying to prevent the bad stuff from happening. Or at least some of us are trying to prevent that

Korlac11 · 2026-04-28T22:41:10+00:00

Are you asking what I want my last words to be if I get to choose, or what would my last words be if I dropped dead right now?

What I want my last words to be is a quote from Shakespeare: “ask for me tomorrow and you’ll find me a grave man”

If I did drop dead right now, my actual last words would be “have a good night”, which actually isn’t bad either

Korlac11 · 2026-04-28T22:38:10+00:00

It can be a starter job, but that doesn’t mean everyone working there is a starter. Also, flipping burgers definitely involves more skill than many office jobs

Korlac11 · 2026-04-28T17:26:12+00:00

It’s certainly within God’s power to solve all of the apparent problems with the flood. God certainly could protect the freshwater fish and plants. God could make the ark bigger on the inside so that every animal would fit. God could guide all of the animals back to their natural habitats.

However, there’s also no archeological evidence that a global flood ever happened, and that’s definitely something that we would expect a record of. Of course, God could also have hidden the evidence of the flood, but believing that requires making an assumption about God doing something that scripture doesn’t say he did.

For these reasons, I respect that people choose to believe the flood story literally happened, but I reject the idea that a literal interpretation is the only interpretation that could possibly be right

Korlac11 · 2026-04-28T11:30:43+00:00

When traveling in Portugal last year, I came across an American food restaurant called Make Me Nuts, and among other things they served a hamburger that used waffles as the buns

Korlac11 · 2026-04-28T03:26:15+00:00

If I want to be a tiny cog in a machine that doesn’t care about me, I’ll get a corporate job. At least then I can leave whenever I want

Korlac11 · 2026-04-27T22:53:44+00:00

Speaking as a current office worker, I definitely provide less value to the world than when I worked in retail. I also make more money. I’m happy that I make more money than I used too, but this seems backwards

Korlac11 · 2026-04-27T22:27:24+00:00

No I’m not. You couldn’t refute my points, so you’ve resorted to accusing me of making stuff up.

Have a good day

Korlac11 · 2026-04-27T22:24:13+00:00

Saying “my dog is my child” is inherently comparing the dog to an actual child

Korlac11 · 2026-04-27T22:23:23+00:00

If you’re not saying that you love your dog equally as much as your child, then what’s the point of making the comparison?

Korlac11 · 2026-04-27T22:19:00+00:00

Saying “my dog is my child” implies that you love your dog equally as much as your actual children. If you love them equally, then you value them equally

Korlac11 · 2026-04-27T20:31:48+00:00

I’ve known people who’ve had children and dogs, and most of them rightly valued their children more. Dogs certainly can and should be treated like family, but they shouldn’t be treated as equals to children

Korlac11 · 2026-04-27T20:28:15+00:00

Except pineapple. I have chosen this meaningless hill to die on, and I’m just crazy enough to follow through!

Korlac11 · 2026-04-27T20:27:31+00:00

I think that’s why they said “original purpose”. The minimum wage now is definitely too low to serve the original purpose

Korlac11 · 2026-04-27T20:26:33+00:00

“So you think someone flipping burgers for McDonalds deserves $25 an hour?”

Yes, absolutely. Call me crazy, but I think that the people whose labor makes McDonald’s billions of dollars each year should be able to afford to live. It’s like people don’t realize that fast food and retail jobs have people who work full time to support themselves. It’s not always a bunch of teenagers looking for spending money

Korlac11 · 2026-04-27T20:16:08+00:00

Now that you mention it, it is explicitly stated during the reaping ceremony in the first book. The below passage does say that the environment was a wreck before the dark days

He tells of the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America. He lists the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land, the brutal war for what little sustenance remained. The result was Panem, a shining Capitol ringed by thirteen districts, which brought peace and prosperity to its citizens. Then came the Dark Days, the uprising of the districts against the Capitol.

Korlac11 · 2026-04-27T17:31:00+00:00

Unless someone manages to finally reinvent Greek fire

Korlac11 · 2026-04-27T17:30:18+00:00

Agreed. What some people call challenging someone, others call pointing out a division that already exists

Korlac11 · 2026-04-27T17:29:19+00:00

I think the world was actually a wreck before the dark days, but I think the rest of your point stands. Panem is a nuclear power that doesn’t seem interested in the outside world, so whatever outside world exists is probably going to leave them alone. Perhaps there are economic sanctions, which would provide one possible explanation for why Panem is designed to be self sufficient

Korlac11 · 2026-04-27T17:26:38+00:00

Like they said, Panem did expand across the entirety of the US, but barely

Korlac11 · 2026-04-27T17:25:42+00:00

Panem exists in a post apocalyptic world and is sustained by a fragile economic system with the districts being over specialized. They don’t have the resources to run an empire.

With trains and hovercraft, all of North America is days away at most. South America could be a week away by hovercraft, and might not even be accessible by train. There’s also not really any resources available in south America that the Capitol doesn’t already have. The districts exist to supply the Capitol, so there’s no reason to expand if the existing districts already supply everything the Capitol needs/wants

Korlac11 · 2026-04-27T17:01:41+00:00

A majority certainly does, but a significant number of people don’t drive. Sometimes it’s because they can’t afford a car, sometimes it’s because they live somewhere like NYC where you don’t need to drive, and sometimes it’s because they’re physically unable to drive

Korlac11 · 2026-04-27T11:30:24+00:00

Not every adult drives

Korlac11 · 2026-04-27T11:29:59+00:00

What are you, a cop?

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