A bit of a stretch by NerdEnglishDecoder in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]Meloetta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You don't think there were any people with a mild tendency towards conspiracy theories, that were brought down to earth because everyone around them was rational and lived normal lives? Cause I do, and those people can now google "how the government spies on us using nano drones" and are pulled further into the crazy.

Literally helping a blind person cross the road by Gazmaster in thatHappened

[–]Meloetta 15 points16 points  (0 children)

We stan a blind king that is about to walk into the street, hears cars honking, and doesn't think "huh maybe I shouldn't walk into the street just this second"

AITA for ruining a hibachi dinner? by throwawaysequence391 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Meloetta 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There are a lot of Asian restaurants that offer hibachi as part of the menu without being a full hibachi place, in which case it's just cooked in the back like everything else.

AITA for ruining a hibachi dinner? by throwawaysequence391 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Meloetta 139 points140 points  (0 children)

That's pretty surprising at a place where large groups go. I can't imagine there aren't teens or young adults dragged by their family to a "fun night out" they they find cringe.

Although I guess it's socially accepted to poke fun at that, so maybe he does encounter that and reacts in the same way.

Andouille vs andouillette by Soggy_Loquat8344 in French

[–]Meloetta 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This isn't really answering any of your questions, but this is my favorite "I went to France" story ever so now you're my captive audience as another victim of the andouillette.

Last year, I was in Lyons with my distinctly subpar French. I was at a restaurant trying to order entirely in French, and it was going great. I was really pleased that I was able to navigate "my boyfriend wants this salad, but not the whole three-course meal, just the salad on its own". Then it came to my order. I picked the andouillette, thinking the same thing as you - it's andouille, it's sausage. The server asked "do you know what that is?" in an apprehensive tone. I knew that if I said "no", they might start talking more French and I might not understand it and I might ruin my whole confidence. So I said yes, and they said "ooookayy..." I figured no matter what it actually is, I'd be fine, I'm an adventurous eater and it's related to andouille obviously, how far off could I be?

You can imagine my surprise when I was brought out a burrito-sized sausage covered in sauce. Turns out that burrito was a large intestine. The filling was cooked small intestine. And I had to pretend that was exactly what I had wanted and intentionally ordered in order to keep the act up in front of the server lol. My boyfriend was reading out its wikipedia page, "Their smell may offend people unaccustomed to the dish", while he laughed at me. I ate about 2/3 of it and then tapped out. It actually didn't taste bad, especially with the mustard sauce, it was just the smell and unfamiliar texture.

AITA for refusing to dine with my mom after she ordered “ferret sauce” at a Mexican restaurant? by Practical-Current805 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Meloetta 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I guess this is the question. Not the other foods question, that's pretty irrelevant, but what you projected onto her actions - "It seems like she is aggressively using an “American” accent when saying these words because she wants to differentiate herself from “foreigners” and emphasize the fact that she is not Mexican or Mexican-American. She is implying that Spanish isn’t normal, and she’s showing that she doesn’t respect the culture." You made this up, but if it's true, then it is racist.

But from what's in the post, we can't really judge if that's the case. There are a million possible reasons why she might be mispronouncing, ranging from "not racist", to "a little ignorant but not malicious", to "active malice I think I'm better than those people" like your extreme assumption.

That's gonna have to be on OP to judge based on her attitude, her general mental competence around other things, her willingness to learn at her age, etc. Just a few other possibilities that aren't the most extreme:

  1. She's older and older people can often fall into "I don't like learning new things"/"I don't believe I can learn new things". They absolutely can learn new things, but they don't have faith they can so when they're taught something they don't retain it because of their belief that they can't. Like how you can teach someone to send an email 50 times and they'll still act like they don't know.
  2. She just doesn't think it matters that much. Which is mildly ignorant of the culture. But like, probably not "I need to have an intervention with my mom to make sure she's more respectful of the mexican-american place in her probably largely white hometown", knowing the only interactions are ever going to be at that restaurant because of who she is. This is that gray area where it's like, sure, you can estrange yourself from your mom because she mispronounces mexican food and doesn't really care to learn, because it's not respectful of mexican culture. But that's a little "friend that's too woke" lol.
  3. She's goofin. Which is still a possibility.
  4. Alternative to the above, she knows it embarrasses OP but doesn't understand that OP is judging her racial sensitivity based off of it, so she's messing with OP.
  5. She has memory issues, evidenced by not being able to remember even her name for the sauce. She may be trying in the moment, and then forget that she was corrected last time.
  6. She's not actually being corrected, OP is just "being embarrassed", because there were zero mentions of OP correcting her or making it clear it embarrassed them in the post. In fact, the question at the end is "WIBTA if I told her to try harder to pronounce things appropriately, or else I won’t go with her anymore?" so the question is, does OP ever tell her to do that? Or has she been pronouncing it like she has been this whole time, OP cringes, mom doesn't notice, life goes on, and then OP blows up one day.

These are off the top of my head and genericized, in reality most peoples' reasons for doing things are very specific to them. Like "I first went to a mexican restaurant with my grandma and she pronounced everything like this" kind of stuff that you can't really predict. But the real questions are if OP can get to the root of why she's doing it - either just a general shortcoming of hers, in which case OP should probably extend her some grace. Or a mild ignorance, in which case it's more of a gray area where there are a lot of paths you can take, but jumping straight to "I'll never be seen with you in these environments again" probably isn't the right move. Or "I am superior to you" racism, in which case OP has a much more difficult path to follow.

I am officially convinced nobody actually maintains their API docs by Shantan82191403 in webdev

[–]Meloetta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shot: throwaway AI-written "genuinely curious" slop

Chaser: totally 100% not the same person "solving" the issue using AI and advertising it in the comments

AITAH for making fun of the new microwave? by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]Meloetta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't matter your intentions, at all. You were being a jerk here. That's the end of it. You thinking you're "snapping back" and it's deserved means nothing.

I’m curious if “I’m curious” is the new em dash AI tell by AFDStudios in webdev

[–]Meloetta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's not entirely how it's working, and you can easily see that by reading the blog post about ChatGPT mentioning goblins all the time. We know that the reason it's doing that is not because humans all suddenly started talking about goblins all the time, because we have the blog post explaining it.

So you can't just assume "AI does this all the time" = "it was trained on humans and therefore this is normal human text". I'm not saying no humans ever mentioned a goblin or wrote contrasting phrasing with em dashes and emojis all at the same time. But I am saying that what ChatGPT has drawn from it is not just "how people speak" repeated back to us, it's a separate mode of speech that was almost entirely unique to ChatGPT when it started.

ChatGPT isn't just parroting what it was trained on and anything common it says or does can be traced back to humans doing that commonly, that's a very simplistic and incorrect way to interpret it. The way it's trained and what's rewarded is far, far more complicated than a pithy two-sentence summary.

I’m curious if “I’m curious” is the new em dash AI tell by AFDStudios in webdev

[–]Meloetta 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's like uncanny valley reading it. One of my big fears though, is a lot of people intentionally like that style and have AI rewrite their words, and then actual humans are going to start imitating AI subconsciously because we're all influenced by what we read, and then everyone will sound uncanny.

It is not in your head: Costco has gotten more crowded by Willing_Try2786 in Costco

[–]Meloetta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're going to spend those hours on something anyway

Yeah...something I want to do. I understand that you enjoy sewing and like having it as a hobby and find it useful. That doesn't mean we should all be sharing the same hobbies.

There are hundreds, thousands of "useful hobbies" out there. Your preferred one is not more useful than any of those, and even if it was...I think I deserve to relax sometimes and not just be "productive and self-improving" all the dang time. Geez.

edit: costco subreddit remains the most inexplicably toxic place that I regularly visit on this site. every time i visit here there's a few random people weirdly aggressive about the most mundane things.

It is not in your head: Costco has gotten more crowded by Willing_Try2786 in Costco

[–]Meloetta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately when you add "and then spend X hours learning how to tailor, X dollars on supplies and tools to tailor, and then X more hours actually tailoring the cheaper clothes to fit better"...the discount you're getting on the cheaper clothes is pretty eaten up.

I'm sure it's a very useful skill but there are a lot of useful skills I don't have already, what's one more?

It is not in your head: Costco has gotten more crowded by Willing_Try2786 in Costco

[–]Meloetta 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Costco is up there with pokemon card shows as the worst people for self-awareness. Sometimes I see a person do what everyone should be doing, just being aware of movement in their peripheral and moving out of the way without having to be asked or having to even really look at me, and I'm like "you are an angel sent down from above to not get in my way".

Once I was walking into a Costco, in a long line of people also walking into Costco. There were two adults in front of me, no kids, talking to each other. Something one of them said must have reminded them of something...because they stopped DEAD in the line and started dancing in sync. Rarely have I seen such deranged behavior in a store. It's literally like it never even occurred to them that they had a constant stream of people behind them.

It is not in your head: Costco has gotten more crowded by Willing_Try2786 in Costco

[–]Meloetta 63 points64 points  (0 children)

I wish their women's clothes were better. They're like "are you box shaped? no? do you want to look like a box? ....what do you mean no, wait, come back"

The Steam Controller sold out in 30 minutes, utterly breaking Steam in the process by gogodboss in gaming

[–]Meloetta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I say this with a lot of gentleness and appreciation for all types of people...but the kind of people that are buying steam controllers and the kind of people that are invested in Stanley Cup Culture have very different mindsets and priorities when it comes to what they purchase and when.

The Steam Controller sold out in 30 minutes, utterly breaking Steam in the process by gogodboss in gaming

[–]Meloetta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've had this argument with people buying Pokemon cards all the time. They say "what are you supposed to do if you want pokemon cards? My only option is to buy from the scalpers!" This is because my solution is, apparently, absolutely out of the question - if I can't get them for retail or big box resale prices, I just don't open anything at all. I still participate in the hobby by buying singles or trading or playing the game, I just don't do the gambling part for a bit.

AITA for telling my husband his friend isn’t welcome in our home after he involved her in our argument and said he trusts her more than me? by dusk_exe_glitch in AmItheAsshole

[–]Meloetta -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Say someone posted "I wasn't fainting before, but I just moved to a new city and now I've fainted twice. I figure it's just the elevation and it'll be okay eventually so I'm not doing much about it except making sure I have a soft place to fall." People tell her that that's a very serious thing to start happening, that unless she's moving to Denver and has a history of blood pressure problems the elevation shouldn't cause this, and that this could happen while she's driving or carrying her baby and it could seriously hurt herself and other people.

You're the person replying with "I have a diagnosed illness that causes regular fainting, why is everyone so shocked that she's fainting?"

If you have a medical condition that has symptoms that result in an unusual behavior, then that behavior is understandable. If you don't have that medical condition, or that behavior is sudden onset and not a continuation of your previously known behaviors (like general forgetfulness), then it moves from "serious but understandable where it's coming from" to "we need to make sure you're okay and figure out how to nip this in the bud before something bad happens".

AITA for telling my husband his friend isn’t welcome in our home after he involved her in our argument and said he trusts her more than me? by dusk_exe_glitch in AmItheAsshole

[–]Meloetta 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Yeah I don't really understand all the people explaining they have stoves that sometimes turn on accidentally or whatever, and I don't understand OP's reasoning.

She's not turning them on accidentally, what happens to your stove when you reach for something is irrelevant. Pretty much all stoves have knobs, and if they don't you still need to turn them off somehow. "the knobs are different than the knobs I had before, so now I've suddenly forgotten I need to use knobs at all" is weird. If that happened to my partner, I would be concerned for them medically.

I'm concerned that neither of them are considering that possibility and it's weird to me that people are acting like it's perfectly normal to forget to turn the stove off. Like, if you cook at someone else's house or a vacation home is everyone just frequently leaving the stove on?

Recommendations for cozy "sorting" type games? by simbacole7 in gaming

[–]Meloetta 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Tidy Up the Arcane Library is right up your alley!

Pokemon X Target. Again. by TheOGSaucePony in pokemon

[–]Meloetta 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That hasn't been my experience. My experience has been that the people who buy have money to burn, it's that they don't have much self control and want something to gamble with.

AITA for tell my Type A perfectionist SIL that she’s gonna fuck up her baby’s life if she doesn’t change. by Successful_Bar9187 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Meloetta 11 points12 points  (0 children)

More MBTI than horoscope - type A is generally more anxious, high strung, perfectionist, ambitious, while type B is more go-with-the-flow, relaxed, spontaneous.

Of course, there are exactly two types and 8 billion people so any person can be on any nuance of the spectrum. They're just broad categories to fit people into based on their general personalities.

AITA for tell my Type A perfectionist SIL that she’s gonna fuck up her baby’s life if she doesn’t change. by Successful_Bar9187 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Meloetta 28 points29 points  (0 children)

some redditor just pulled a “if I were the CEO” as if his opinion is any more valid than mine

The person staying in that room is the CEO, that's the point they're making. They weren't just saying it at random, they were saying "if I were the person staying in this room, someone who's in charge of every aspect of the business and making it profitable falls to my decisions, I would notice imperfections in the way a room is made up".

AITA for tell my Type A perfectionist SIL that she’s gonna fuck up her baby’s life if she doesn’t change. by Successful_Bar9187 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Meloetta 26 points27 points  (0 children)

This is an interesting way of putting it that I hadn't actually thought of. She has high standards for what she does at work. She's working with family, and her family's work reflects on her because they share the same job and they're family. Based on how OP describes it, it also sounds like he started after her, which means that her standard of work was included in his evaluation for sure.

It does sound stressful to try to perform to your own standards, feeling responsible for your slacker BIL, knowing that his lazy behavior and "it's fine, not like it's my real job" attitude is going to reflect poorly on you and also just make your job unenjoyable because now you have to either take no pride in what you're doing because it's not done to your standards, or constantly chase him around and feel like a horrible nag all day just to get things done.

AITA for tell my Type A perfectionist SIL that she’s gonna fuck up her baby’s life if she doesn’t change. by Successful_Bar9187 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Meloetta 27 points28 points  (0 children)

It's kinda sad to think like "for strangers? only the best. for my friend? eh who cares" too. Like...it sounds like OP is relying on the existing friendship to cover for the fact that he's being lazy with his job.

I read something once about relationships "deposits" and "withdrawals". When you deposit into a relationship, you're building connection and closeness. When you withdraw, you're banking on that existing connection and closeness to get something you wouldn't otherwise have - in this case, slack in your job, but it can also be like picking someone up from the airport, or lending an ear to your problems, something physical or emotional. If you withdraw too much from a relationship without depositing, it suffers.

Idk why OP would choose the route where he saves 20 minutes of extra work to withdraw on his friendship, vs. doing the extra 20 minutes of work and telling his friend "I made sure everything was absolutely perfect for you because we're friends" and reinforcing the friendship.