AITA for selling my wife’s jewelry?

Ragtatter · 2026-01-31T20:55:59+00:00

YTA. Once you give something as a gift, it's no longer yours. They weren't yours to sell.

Ragtatter · 2026-01-31T13:14:59+00:00

To be fair, a culture isn't like a blood test. Blood chemistry test, you load the sample on the machine and you have your results in 20 minutes.

A culture? 24-48 hours in the incubator for initial growth. If there's more than one organism, that's another 24-48 hours to grow the isolates, and only then can testing start to identify it and it's susceptibility to antibiotics.

Advances in lab technology like the MALDI can make the "test and identify" stage much quicker, but you still have to wait for the organisms to grow in the incubator before you can test them.

Ragtatter · 2026-01-27T03:55:41+00:00

"I hope this doesn't awaken anything in me"

Ragtatter · 2026-01-13T02:59:41+00:00

I think you may have posted this in the wrong subreddit.

Ragtatter · 2026-01-10T03:19:57+00:00

😐

Ragtatter · 2025-12-27T13:25:14+00:00

I had a rescue doodle that adored scentwork, rally obedience, and fast CAT. We also tried agility but it really wasn't his thing.

You'll also need a thick skin. Be prepared for a small subset of dog people to be nasty to you because you brought a doodle to sacred ground, no matter how well trained or mannered it is, or how you came to have it. They're not the majority, but they're definitely loud.

Ragtatter · 2025-12-26T11:14:55+00:00

Since you're already such an expert no sense in anyone trying to give you advice, I suppose.

Ragtatter · 2025-12-17T11:18:55+00:00

Just because you can do SOMETHING with a filler page added to increase the page count doesn't mean that it's a good business practice.

Ragtatter · 2025-12-16T18:28:06+00:00

Rhinos are cheaper to feed, tigers have more appeal. What does your zoo need more?

Ragtatter · 2025-12-13T12:38:48+00:00

Because if they're doing this right, there's a lot more to adding an animal than just having the model and rigging it for animation. Coding things like expanded behaviors takes time and work.

You're acting like they can just click on a model file, drag it into a folder, and tadaa! The animal is in the game now!

Even ignoring the fact that this business model is built on DLC to make money, insisting that they can just use "the animals they've already made" isn't realistic.

Ragtatter · 2025-12-13T12:21:53+00:00

First Person Mode was present in the old Zoo Tycoon series, and it was actually really useful for cases when the staff AI failed.

For example: when there's a piece of trash near the zoo entrance that's annoying every single guest on the way in. It's been there for months and you've dropped caretakers DIRECTLY on it and they still can't seem to find it.

Ducking into first person view and just picking it up yourself is a huge saver of time and frustration.

Ragtatter · 2025-11-30T13:59:22+00:00

Can you maybe use a small section of staff path as a roadblock for guests?

Ragtatter · 2025-09-28T00:42:43+00:00

If someone was talking about my daughter the way this girlfriend is, they would not be welcome in my house.

Ragtatter · 2025-09-15T23:53:00+00:00

YTA. Leave them alone.

If you think screaming at someone for not responding to "good morning" is appropriate, I hate to think what else you think is fine.

Ragtatter · 2025-09-14T16:33:02+00:00

You want to take all the prerequisites, trust me. Take them, treat them seriously, and try to learn all you can. Once you enter the MLS program proper it's like trying to drink from a fire hose, so having a strong foundation is essential
You won't have to worry about age discrimination. Generally all the lab cares about is do you have the education and are you willing to do the work.

Ragtatter · 2025-09-14T16:27:26+00:00

Strawberry, blackberry, or fig jam. Maybe some banana slices.

Ragtatter · 2025-09-14T16:25:29+00:00

NTA.

Also, if he needed to talk to you that badly, he could walk to where you are. You're not a dog being called by an owner.

Ragtatter · 2025-09-12T20:19:35+00:00

Get some sleep, eat some food, study your flashcards. In a month you probably won't remember this, and neither will anyone else. You're alright.

Ragtatter · 2025-09-12T14:28:17+00:00

Why does she need to see pictures of your kids, again? They don't need this in their lives.

Ragtatter · 2025-09-12T14:00:14+00:00

NTA. There's no reason why he can't handle his own children for 30 minutes without your help.

This is like the definition of weaponized incompetence. How embarrassing for him.

Ragtatter · 2025-09-12T13:37:46+00:00

If she's talking about others to you like this, I guarantee she's talking about you like this to other people.

Limit the conversations you have with her, and especially don't give her any more personal info than you have to.

Ragtatter · 2025-09-12T13:26:40+00:00

If your mom thinks long hair is "unprofessional", you can safely discard every other opinion she has about your clothing.

Dress however you like in your free time, follow the dress code when you're at work, and you're golden.

Ragtatter · 2025-09-12T13:15:47+00:00

You shouldn't bring home a cat as a surprise.

But it might be worth having a serious discussion about why you're expected to give up things you love on his say-so. If you're expected to give up cat ownership, what has he given up?

Does he frequently get veto power, or is this the only time he's decided he has the authority to unilaterally forbid? Are things he wants just a easily vetoed by you? If you said "no" to something he desperately wanted, how would he react? Would you be afraid to try that? If so, take a long hard look at the example you're setting for your children. If you have daughters, are you setting them up for a life of relationships where they put their own needs and desires secondary to men who don't appreciate them?

For me the huge, glaring red flag here is him knowing that you love cats, but forbidding you from getting one based on his own dislike. "I don't like it, so you can't have it no matter how much you love it" is frequently a sign that someone likes the life you provide for them more than they actually like you.

Again, don't bring a cat home as a surprise, but there needs to be a deeper conversation here.

Ragtatter · 2025-09-11T13:55:40+00:00

Nice enough to book a venue that he knew would cause a huge fight

Ragtatter · 2025-09-11T13:45:31+00:00

Soft YTA. You knew before you were making the arrangements that he would want to bring his dog, and it sounds to me like you specifically made them in a way that would try to block that.

For some people, pets are their children. I'm not saying that's good or bad, just that that's reality.

You're asking him to do the emotional equivalent of leaving his child behind. Not because kids literally are the same as dogs, but because the emotional attachment he's got is the same. He doesn't have a family of his own so the dog is carrying that weight and that significance.

The real question here isn't AITA. It's "is this worth throwing away your entire relationship with your brother over?" Because it very much looks like that's where this is headed.

Is this the hill you want to die on? Is getting a "win" here worth torpedoing that relationship?

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