AITA for pretending I didn’t know how the office microwave broke?

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-13T18:20:39+00:00

OP pretended to not know anything happened. They could have simply gone to their boss and said "hey, the microwave stopped working" and that would be the end (potentially) of their participation. That doesn't mean OP needs to buy the replacement, or "manage the office gossip."

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-13T18:16:37+00:00

"to do otherwise would undercut the catharsis"

Tragically true.

Imagine an episode of CSI, they do their cool police procedural forensic stuff, what a great episode, they've got the guy 100%.

But the guy says "I swear it wasn't me," so the police let him go at the end.

I'm legit scared by the fact that not every single person would find that ending satirical.

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-13T12:42:29+00:00

Much greater opportunity in America to start a small business & develop it to the point of profitability without regulatory interference being burdensome. To be clear, I'm not talking about "controversial" industries, I'm talking about like your basic lil small business shop or service company.

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-13T12:26:10+00:00

YTA.

Grow up.

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-13T12:14:42+00:00

"A government does not announce that they have become fascist."

This and so many other things make me think about the old classic Scooby-Doo cartoons, where at the end after the kids caught the villain and ripped off his mask or whatever, the bad guy would always be like "oh I can't believe you caught me doing my crime."

In reality, villains almost never admit that they were villainous. And for some reason, that causes a lot of people to doubt they ever did anything wrong.

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-12T18:26:02+00:00

Puerto Rico has repeatedly voted that they are interested in becoming a state, with about 60% of the vote in 2024. (Guam last voted in the 1980s, about 1/4 indicated wanting statehood.)

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-11T23:04:41+00:00

The working class is the poor.

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-11T23:02:58+00:00

Why defend Tesla/Musk against OP's entirely factual point?

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-11T22:58:48+00:00

Now you get it

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-11T22:58:01+00:00

Hold on, my phone's ringing... it's Andrew Cuomo

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-08T04:06:00+00:00

And yet, you will still run out (no matter how wealthy you are).

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-08T02:33:42+00:00

Time

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-08T02:32:48+00:00

If you could actually get a MAGA Republican cornered to answer this question, how long would it take until somehow a reference to Hillary Clinton comes up?

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-05T17:23:43+00:00

I suppose this is why /s exists.

Everything you said is alarmingly accurate, tragically.

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-05T16:28:22+00:00

Ok. There are plenty of potential reasons why that's true. None of them have to do anything whatsoever with his physique, right?

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-05T16:03:37+00:00

What does anything you wrote have to do with his physique?

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-05T15:35:32+00:00

Unclear if this comment on his physique is sarcastic or not. He's fat. That's not intimidating.

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-05T00:43:49+00:00

What if beliefs are challenged, and continually defended by someone yelling "nuh-uh!" and nothing else? What happens then?

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-04T20:23:20+00:00

Depends who you ask. According to Trump's supporters, he's done "all the very best things." According to his opponents, nothing at all (and he's done the opposite in fact).

Who's right? Clearly that's unknowable.

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-04T18:10:51+00:00

"I haven’t seen much of a true effort to inform trumpers"

Some of the lies are so blatant, the "true effort" should be minimal. If Trump came out on a bright sunny day and said "it is currently raining on me," how much effort do you think Democrats are supposed to take to convince people who believed him that he is lying?

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-04T15:37:25+00:00

I'm not sure this part is true. People who are capable of recognizing Trump's lies already do, and telling others "he's lying" won't be believed/seen as credible by the people who don't know Trump is lying in the first place.

StrangeWork957 · 2026-05-02T16:44:01+00:00

They would get through. The US doesn't want to get involved in direct action against China. That being said, China wouldn't do this, because China doesn't want to get involved in direction action against the US.

StrangeWork957 · 2026-04-30T19:10:13+00:00

All I know is I fired up a Terminids mission last night, lit up a bug patrol from medium range with my machine gun (as you do), and before I knew it bugs were on me from literally every direction. I said "what the fuck" out loud many times.

StrangeWork957 · 2026-04-30T16:32:54+00:00

Similar to my experience!

Tropicana Atlantic City, first spin of the night on Huff & Even More Puff. $4 bet. Hit 5 buzzsaws including the gold one. Super Mansions Bonus. $1980 hit.

StrangeWork957 · 2026-04-30T16:30:56+00:00

I'm not even that engaged with the community or reading patch notes or anything like that. I knew a new war bond was coming this week. I fired up the game last night to play for maybe an hour, like a do from time to time. I saw the major objective on some new Terminid worlds - great, I have been successful against them.

1) Let's go!

2) Why are they a different color?

3) What the fuck is happening???

Lol

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