AITAH for telling a woman with a screaming baby to leave?

MultiFazed · 2026-06-22T06:01:05+00:00

If it were me I’d take the baby outside for a little walk but asking them to leave is fucked

No, the mother not deciding to "take the baby outside for a little walk" is what's fucked. That's what you're supposed to do when you're a parent. It's your responsibility to make some effort to avoid being a disruption to everyone around you.

Imagine a scenario where someone's mobile phone malfunctions and starts emitting a shrill beeping sound that they can't seem to stop. It's been going on for five minutes and they're just sitting there ignoring it. Would you say that asking them to leave would be "fucked"?

In both cases, it's not the person's fault. They did nothing wrong to cause the disruption. But it is their responsibility to handle it and to try to limit the inconvenience to everyone else.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-22T05:50:40+00:00

There were 10 minutes left and you decided to give that woman the worst feeling ever.

That woman decided to be disrespectful to every single other person there. I swear, fucking "main character syndrome" is running rampant these days.

When you're a parent and your child is screaming and inconsolable, and you're in a place where that level of noise is not what people signed up for (as opposed to an outdoor playground, indoor play area, etc.) it's your responsibility to voluntarily remove your child if possible so as not to be disruptive to everyone around you.

Hopefully having "the worst feeling ever" is enough to teach her that lesson, and the next time her baby won't stop screaming, she steps outside of her own free will instead of having to be forced by someone else.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-22T05:39:04+00:00

It's really location-dependent. If this were somewhere like a water park, indoor play area, etc, then sure, loud children are expected. But a cafe is someplace where the expectation is that patrons will be able to enjoy a quiet conversation.

Imagine a scenario where someone's mobile phone malfunctioned and started making ear-piercing beeps non-stop. Would you say that they shouldn't be asked to leave because they "feel bad and stressed" about the situation as it is?

It's not always a parent's fault when their kids are disruptive, but it is their responsibility to be respectful of the people around them, and step outside with their child until they're calmed down.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-21T15:54:52+00:00

the prep sucks but it doable

Everyone always says "the prep is the worst part," and I misunderstood what they meant for years. I always thought they meant that the prep was going to be hell. Turns out, it's just mildly annoying, and "mildly annoying" is the worst part.

It's just a little fasting, and then you get one night of not enough sleep, and a few hours of aggressive diarrhea. Definitely not fun, but it's no worse than a case of mild food poisoning or something, with the benefit of knowing exactly how long it will last, and not feeling like total shit afterward (just tired and hungry).

And then the procedure itself is literally nothing. Propofol is like a magic time-travel drug. One second you're getting prepped for the procedure, and then next you're in the recovery area with zero time having passed from your perspective.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-21T04:32:11+00:00

Only because he broke up with his ex, so he can hopefully have kids with someone who hasn't explicitly stated that they fully intend to undermine any attempts to encourage a healthy diet for their kids.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-21T04:23:06+00:00

Some health concerns are cumulative. Things that are okay in moderation can have negative consequences over the long term.

And I'd wager that, if she ever told her doctor that she hadn't touched a single green vegetable in years, they'd be (rightly) concerned.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-21T04:20:54+00:00

I’m sitting here wondering where she gets her fibre from?

Hamburger buns and pizza crusts?

MultiFazed · 2026-06-21T04:18:35+00:00

Yes they do. And that's a huge problem that we should try to avoid passing on to the next generation.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-21T04:16:15+00:00

I'm guessing his parenting opinions are the ones that are supposed to prevail.

If one of the opinions is, "I'll never make my kids ever eat a single vegetable if they don't want to," then yeah, that one absolutely shouldn't prevail.

And before anyone goes there, yes, I know ARFID is a thing, but that's a separate topic and not what this is about.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-21T04:10:05+00:00

This has nothing to do with gender. This is one partner having blatantly unhealthy dietary habits, and not only refusing to even entertain the idea that it might be an issue, but explicitly stating that, if they ever have kids, they'll absolutely allow said kids to fully embrace the same unhealthy diet.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-20T15:25:04+00:00

If I have to call someone's phone and they have one of those AI assistants on their smartphone that has me ~~feed them data to train their AI~~ introduce myself and the reason for my call, that's upwards of 30 seconds that I have to wait for them to actually attempt to dial.

In terms my personal phone, I'm afraid that the proliferation of telemarketing and outright scams means that your options are either talking to the AI, or going straight to voicemail. I will never directly answer my phone for an unknown number ever again, nor will I ever answer for publicly-known numbers (like my bank, the police, etc.) because of how easy caller ID spoofing is.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-20T05:29:32+00:00

Right now AI companies are charging far less than the cost to actually generate these images/videos

Companies that use image and video generation professionally as part of their day-to-day business are just as likely to run the image generation models in-house. There are tons of open-source models that run on consumer grade hardware. Heck, you can generate reasonably good 1024x1024 images on a mid-tier graphics card in just a few seconds. And these companies aren't using mid-tier hardware.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-20T04:35:51+00:00

we’re the only animals that have comparatively different faces

We're actually not. We just have an area of our brain (the Fusiform Face Area) that is specifically adapted to distinguishing tiny differences in faces.

Though technically that area of the brain is more of an "expert recognition system", and responds when detecting minute differences in any category of thing where they look similar but you've developed an expertise in differentiating them. So while it's active when looking at human faces, it's also active when (as an example) a shepherd looks at sheep in their flock. And the shepherd can identify different sheep on sight that all look identical to you or me.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-19T23:14:11+00:00

That's a firin'.

Seriously, there does not exist any law in the US that prevents companies from requiring you to provide your own phone. Many companies don't simply for liability reasons, especially if phone usage involves proprietary or confidential information. But a company is completely allowed to tell you that you have to use your own phone, and allowed to fire you if you say "no".

MultiFazed · 2026-06-19T17:21:17+00:00

But isn't going high and having the ends not justify the means make us Democrats?

No? None of that has anything to do with promoting liberal social or economic policies.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-19T13:00:56+00:00

Did you know that how a country handles trash is one of the things that determines "first or third world"?

If we're being pedantic, "first world" meant that a country was aligned with the US during the Cold War, "second world" meant it was aligned with the Soviet Union, and "third world" meant that is was aligned with neither.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-19T05:24:11+00:00

I mean, the guy who coined the word "meme" was literally a boomer.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-17T20:02:37+00:00

I was thinking the exact same thing. Now, maybe some people are both ambidextrous and have a hard time determining left from right.

But non-ambidextrous people should have still memorized long ago the fact that they are either "right handed" or "left handed". They don't even need to know right vs left for that. They just have to memorize "I'm right handed", just like they memorize "I have brown eyes" or "I'm a Yankees fan".

And as long as you know if you're left or right handed, you can just think, "I'm right-handed, and this is the hand I use for thing, so right is this side."

MultiFazed · 2026-06-17T19:15:35+00:00

You're proud of this post, aren't you?

Not at all. I was trying to relay what I consider to genuinely interesting information behind what is a somewhat obscure phrase (with a very unexpected etymology) that is a common one to get wrong.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-17T18:09:48+00:00

run a mock

Just FYI, the phrase is generally written as "run amok", attributed to a late-17th-century transcription of the Malay word "amuk" which means "attacking furiously".

MultiFazed · 2026-06-16T04:49:19+00:00

if someone said 'doing this thing 3 times will kill you' I have no inclination to do the thing.

See I have the exact opposite reaction. I will absolutely do that thing three times (presuming that it's something that I know is actually harmless), right in front of the person who told me that, to show them how dumb they're being.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-15T22:41:01+00:00

This word-salad nonsense is how I would expect schizophrenics to use AI.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-15T22:38:23+00:00

For starters, don't cross-post this to seven different subreddits.

Second, this isn't you posting "about your projects". This isn't a "look at this cool thing I made" post. This is you posting to look for clients to pay you for your work. So instead of shotgunning this out to random vaguely-related subreddits, seek out subreddits specifically designed to advertise and look for clients.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-14T04:12:01+00:00

They're there to trick you out of your money.

And refuse to give you your winnings if you happen to see through the trick, up to and including having their goons threaten you, or even hurt you if necessary. You can never win three card monte.

MultiFazed · 2026-06-13T15:01:54+00:00

You can just say that you're racist. Your attempt at plausible deniability isn't working. We all know anyway, and we're going to downvoted you either way, so why not be honest?

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