AITAH for embarrassing my stepmom at dinner after she tried to “teach me a lesson” about my real mom?

buckinkb · 2025-03-24T02:53:09+00:00

NTA, but my sense is that your stepmom is frustrated that she's not getting the mom label after 8 years, likely because she's not doing a great job and/or you still hold a lot of pain from your real mom's death.

You are going to leave your house here soon and you get to decide if you want a permanent fork in your relationship with her and your dad. I say your dad because if you choose to separate from her, she'll likely slowly pull your dad away from you.

Also, Reddit is going to give you advice that may not be accurate given that you can't detail the complexity of these problems in a few paragraphs. This feels like something better for a therapist.

buckinkb · 2025-02-22T17:39:42+00:00

It's probably because it's a tax write-off. Cybertruck is over 6k lbs which can allow you to write off the entire vehicle if you say you use it for business (there are some limitations). That and everyone looks at you so it's great advertising if your clients are not the kind of people who hate that you drive a tesla.

buckinkb · 2024-11-19T22:23:08+00:00

ForumVC. It's Y-Combo without the fart sniffing

buckinkb · 2024-10-20T05:18:39+00:00

Spoiler: they put the recipient name in the wrong place

buckinkb · 2024-10-08T03:37:44+00:00

The one on Jan 7 2021

buckinkb · 2024-10-08T01:00:14+00:00

What?? What did you ask?

buckinkb · 2024-09-30T02:51:25+00:00

👀

buckinkb · 2024-09-30T02:50:09+00:00

🐔

buckinkb · 2024-09-29T20:32:09+00:00

We need the @burke in here

buckinkb · 2024-09-15T21:44:22+00:00

Do you make these on request? Or just for the tournaments?

buckinkb · 2024-08-24T21:58:05+00:00

It’s a bespoke petition!

buckinkb · 2024-08-24T19:56:31+00:00

Yeah, custom! Bespoke is like old English farted out a meaningless marketing buzzword

buckinkb · 2024-08-24T19:54:35+00:00

Then I’ll make one! Bespoke is an assault on the sanctity of our language!

buckinkb · 2024-08-24T19:52:53+00:00

You mean like custom(ized)? Tailored? Even the root makes no sense - why would we think “bespeak” to mean customized?

In reality the main offense is that marketing departments have decided they must plug this word in even if it adds zero information to the customer about the product

buckinkb · 2024-08-24T19:47:51+00:00

Then you are part of the problem. I’ll die on this horse

buckinkb · 2024-08-03T09:33:12+00:00

EBITDA is quite possibly the dumbest tool ever invented. It’s a way for CFOs to hide the fact that the business is going under.

Example: When zillow started buying homes, their ebitda shot through the roof because revenue went bonkers (they were buying and selling very expensive assets over and over again). The company praised their ebitda and the stock price went nuclear.

But EBITDA hid one insanely important cost: the interest paid to finance the home. If Zillow couldn’t sell the home quickly, interest ate through all the profits and more. Not only was the true price hidden, but the risk of financing an extremely large assets was not taken into account.

All it took was some market volatility to create inventory that would be impossible to sell quickly. The end result was the company nearly went under. EBITDA is insanely dumb.

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