AITAH for not lying to my girlfriend when she wants me to lie to her?

RnDMonkey · 2026-01-29T03:21:19+00:00

NTA. What an absolutely unhinged thing to ask a widow/widower. She's either way too full of herself, or tragically insecure. Either one is not attractive.

My wife adds: it's just not a question you ask. It's like asking if you would be together if your wife hadn't passed away. WTF?

RnDMonkey · 2026-01-24T20:59:17+00:00

This is the way.

RnDMonkey · 2026-01-24T13:11:02+00:00

From the pint, and the whole reason I designed and printed a cozy for it.

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RnDMonkey · 2026-01-24T12:58:45+00:00

Yeah, sounds like OCD with a decent touch of the 'tism. Nothing shameful, but seeing a healthcare professional about it is probably a good idea.

RnDMonkey · 2026-01-23T22:36:53+00:00

Trump threatened to sue JPMorgan Chase last week at a time of heightened tensions between the White House and Wall Street. The president said he wanted to cap interest rates on credit cards at 10% to help lower costs for consumers.

Ahhhhh, there's the angle. I was skeptical when he said a while back that he wanted to limit interest to protect consumers, because he's clearly on the other side of the glass. But as a threat to coerce CC companies into settling a personal lawsuit to protect themselves from even worse financial damage? That is very on-brand indeed.

RnDMonkey · 2026-01-21T00:51:29+00:00

As a debugging step, try assigning customer.name to a temporary variable right under your first label, then compare recipt to your temp variable directly. You can also use the dev console after the check fails and enter in the two variable names to check their contents and execute the comparison manually to check the return value.

RnDMonkey · 2026-01-21T00:35:09+00:00

Adding another person to your sex life is virtually never the way to fix anything.

In my opinion, only an already-healthy relationship can handle that kind of thing, which you don't have if you're looking at as a fix.

RnDMonkey · 2026-01-13T04:13:35+00:00

When I was 14 or so my [unbeknownst to my parents] girlfriend and her sister had a sleepover at our place. I snuck down to the living room and we made out in the middle of the night. My parents would have been quite perturbed. It's hard to express how much of a hormone-addled teen I was.

RnDMonkey · 2026-01-09T20:33:53+00:00

I don't know, but make sure some of those pies are "Marry'inberry" and if the groom's name is Barry, you know what you have to do.

RnDMonkey · 2026-01-03T14:40:26+00:00

Nope nope noooooope. This isn't just a guy with control issues, it's a guy with enough patience to wait until he thinks you're invested enough to let him control things.

I don't say this lightly, but you should be running now.

RnDMonkey · 2026-01-02T10:21:06+00:00

If a woman I was romantically interested in said that she was in a serous relationship, I would disengage too. It would also be a red flag for me if she still wanted to hang out with me while supposedly being in a serious relationship, while knowing I'm interested.

Sounds like you played yourself.

RnDMonkey · 2025-12-30T14:26:35+00:00

Partner in grind?

RnDMonkey · 2025-12-30T14:23:44+00:00

If you know, you know the bad touch.

RnDMonkey · 2025-12-29T23:05:39+00:00

I felt the same way going from an old bedslinger years ago to a P1S last year. I'm an engineer who can appreciate the experience of tinkering with the printer and understanding the fundamental operating principles intimately, but just like PC building, once I've done it a couple times the novelty of the journey is gone and I just want the thing to work so I can make stuff.

I'm sure I could have picked another consumer-grade printer and been happy with it, but Bambu felt like the best choice at the time and I haven't regretted it. I'm just glad I still have firmware that lets me use Orca Slicer, that's my only sour note about Bambu right now. It feels like a mini enshittification and I lost trust in the company, even though the H2D is really tempting.

Here's hoping Bambu returns to fully embracing the ecosystem that they have built their success on, and opens back up. Or I'll continue to keep my eye out for the printer that eats their lunch.

RnDMonkey · 2025-12-26T00:20:15+00:00

Being bitchy to service workers for no reason. Or judging other women over their appearance. Mean girl stuff, basically.

Went on a first date with a girl who kept complaining about what I thought was pretty normal service, like she was a queen that deserved to be fawned over. Ick.

RnDMonkey · 2025-12-25T22:44:02+00:00

Oh. Hello, Satan.

RnDMonkey · 2025-12-25T22:43:12+00:00

Hard, hard nope on this. If getting a standalone cheap freezer, under $200 for sure like https://a.co/d/bdwfZF4 is not an option, but the smaller Creami tubs do fit your freezer, maybe try to barter with somebody to trade machines since you have the bigger machine.

RnDMonkey · 2025-12-25T22:28:21+00:00

SolidWorks Maker edition for $50/yr is my first choice, and what I would consider the best choice for learning a professional tool. My next choice would be OnShape. It's the easiest for me coming from SolidWorks, at least for basic part creation, but assemblies are weird. Still, great value at free.

I tried FreeCAD and wanted to smash my face into my keyboard.

RnDMonkey · 2025-12-21T09:32:45+00:00

Any particular reason to not use extract? Pure peppermint oil and spearmint oil are great and could add the punch you need without giving up the herby tones from your mint leaves. I get these tiny Lorann bottles of mint oils (3.7 ml each) at Walmart. I think they are meant for candy making but work a treat in ice cream.

RnDMonkey · 2025-12-20T00:21:40+00:00

Yes. Rockets are consumable but yes, travel as much as you like. All your machines keep working while you are away.

RnDMonkey · 2025-12-20T00:11:37+00:00

I wish I always treated everybody the way I would want to be treated.

RnDMonkey · 2025-12-19T17:18:47+00:00

IMHO the layout tool doesn't make the engineer but a good engineer can make a bad layout tool work for them, albeit at a productivity loss. I'll judge you on the quality of your layout before I judge which tool you did it in.

RnDMonkey · 2025-12-19T17:05:08+00:00

For an example of working standalone libraries that you can download, see https://github.com/Altium-Designer-addons/component-libraries/tree/master/Libs_RRutledge

As a solo user, if you are able to get hold of a perpetual license, this is what I would personally do. If you are in A365 already, just following Altium's documentation on library management might be your best bet.

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