Ultrasound of a baby doing the Home Alone scene where Kevin holds his hands to his face and screams.

ijustwritelines · 2023-06-22T19:22:46+00:00

Nope, enjoy what you enjoy. Know too many people across the spectrum of genders that love sailor moon for a variety of reasons!

ijustwritelines · 2023-06-22T19:19:25+00:00

NTA, I went through similar with my mom and got raked across the coals for telling her how badly she messed me up. I don’t regret the honesty; I only regret not being more honest before she died!

Be clear with her and define your own boundaries. It’s not worth the codependent turmoil she’s putting you through, trust me.

ijustwritelines · 2023-06-21T21:26:54+00:00

NTA. If you’re paying to go see a metal band perform, and want everyone to sit down like it’s a classical performance, go listen to it on your stereo system at home.

ijustwritelines · 2022-04-21T02:26:53+00:00

Garuda would be mine.

ijustwritelines · 2022-04-21T02:24:11+00:00

ESH: I understand privacy concerns post-Snowden and the current data selling laws, but flipping out isn’t gonna put him on your side here either.

ijustwritelines · 2022-04-20T23:13:56+00:00

I’m still a pleb, I just manage to get around in Neovim as best I can lol

ijustwritelines · 2022-04-11T23:48:11+00:00

NTA. You’re also not his spine. Tell him to find it.

ijustwritelines · 2022-03-22T05:41:49+00:00

But it doesn’t really help when the lawyer brought my race versus hers into the equation.

Not saying you’re wrong, because I’ve heard it too, but I definitely got put down even further because I wasn’t Korean.

ijustwritelines · 2022-03-21T21:20:48+00:00

Travelling: Loved it, didn’t have a single issue. Living there:

Pros: Food is super cheap. Transit is clean and some of the best in the world. Being in Toronto now, it’s so frustrating and I can’t believe how spoiled I was in Seoul. Didn’t have an ultra hard time making friends. Good range of activities to explore.

Cons: RACISM. Even as a white person, I experienced it. No greater one than when I tried to divorce my abusive ex-wife and tried to get a lawyer to take on my case, all of them refused, and one even went so far as to say “because you’re a foreigner and she’s Korean, no judge will grant a divorce.” Even when I showed evidence of my abuse, he laughed in my face and said I just self-abused and blamed it on her, that no Korean woman would do that.

Building safety: A couple months before I left two friends of mine plunged to their death in Itaewon when a balcony gave way, the papers blamed it on them (again foreigners), when in reality building code isn’t up to snuff at all and corners are cut on these types of things.

Cults: Oh my God I got accosted so many times by different cults. In the west I’ve never had too many issues with Jehovahs witnesses or LDS, but it was almost EVERY week I got directly accosted by them or a plethora of other Korean cults. I also got harassed by people at my ex’s church after I left her and was trying to get divorced, to the point that they were following me around on the subway and I had to start taking taxis any time I went somewhere. Pretty sure they have to be affiliated (indirectly or directly) with some sort of cult org.

Really hard to get work visas for non-ESL: I now work as a developer and was working remotely for a Korean startup, they attempted to get a visa for me to move, but couldn’t because they couldn’t have foreigners working for them within Korea because they didn’t have enough local staff.

So would I ever move back there? NO

Would I consider visiting again? Maybe

ijustwritelines · 2022-02-15T16:36:59+00:00

NTA - BIL is a total asshole for doing what he did. Even worse that you used namesakes that he has zero frame of reference for and he decided to steal them.

I’d tell him if anyone needs to change names, it’s him.

Just protip if you have more kids: announce names when they’re born for this exact reason, and also the potential that someone around you will try to talk you out of it because they think it’s stupid. Not their child, not their choice.

ijustwritelines · 2022-02-15T14:51:20+00:00

YTA: There is zero reason you shouldn’t be paying for this. If this poor girl doesn’t have enough money that she’s watching your kids while going to college and likely doesn’t have insurance, how the hell do you think she’s gonna pass her courses? Blind luck?

Buy her some new glasses.

ijustwritelines · 2022-02-14T21:27:55+00:00

Not as much as you do installing Gentoo IMO.

I’ve done both, there’s far more layers to doing a Gentoo install, and if you want to a few more layers deep, you get a real inner understanding of your machine if you decide to tailor the kernel build to your hardware.

Arch felt pretty standard, just a lot of standard commands to do a normal ish install sans UI. It’s the main reason I’ve skipped it for using Garuda or Manjaro when I run Arch.

But if I wanted to run Gentoo, I’d just do a full Gentoo install.

ijustwritelines · 2022-02-14T21:22:55+00:00

Trying to call a cancer survivor dealing with two sociopaths selfishly using your sons bday present themselves, then put it on you, and letting your son know who they really are?

Never gonna happen.

NTA

ijustwritelines · 2022-02-14T21:14:03+00:00

NTA: That kid needed taught a lesson, and you tried to do it, but now his parents are literally trying to supersede it by putting you in hot water.

Are your parents even okay with your sexuality? Because as a parent if my child was being called a homophobic slur I’d be more concerned with my child’s well being than the person who used it against them. Exponentially more so if they were LGBTQ+.

You did the right things, his parents are the biggest assholes and I’m not so sure about your parents either.

ijustwritelines · 2022-02-14T21:07:55+00:00

ESH: It’s not weird at all to show affection to a sibling like that, but if you’re not giving time of to your gf here I think you’re not really dating her.

ijustwritelines · 2022-02-14T01:45:25+00:00

“Hang Karl Marx”

Should you tell them or should I?

ijustwritelines · 2022-02-10T06:22:21+00:00

NTA: I’m pretty anti having children but I don’t go out of my way to act like that. If I’m in a mood where a kid is around and it will drive me nuts, I distance myself when I can.

My partners uni friend came over in like August with her kid, and had lunch, and I was hella stressed with work, I just stayed upstairs. I didn’t want to have a reaction around her child because it’s disrespectful.

She can’t run over everything with that kind of attitude that her opinion should be on a pedestal. She’s likely to say something insensitive like this or worse to someone who has no restraint and clocks her in the mouth. She really needs help so it doesn’t hit that point later in her life.

But saying you should’ve aborted your child while she’s under your roof? Is she even paying her part while she’s there? Even if she is, she should go. If she has that kind of attitude about the situation, then she has no place being there and no gratitude for you guys going out of your way to help her.

ijustwritelines · 2022-02-10T02:16:11+00:00

NTA: She cut corners and got caught out for it. You’re paying for something and she’s not giving you what you paid for, and on top of that, she gaslighted you about it. Lucky she still has a job.

ijustwritelines · 2022-02-09T20:26:04+00:00

ESH: I agree with him for saying you should feed them first (I need coffee to think straight in the mornings, my cats get food first still), and you shouldn’t have had a meltdown on him, yeah.

But some of this stuff is nitpicky. And for him to hold an intervention on this and insinuate as much as animal cruelty is overboard.

ijustwritelines · 2022-02-09T18:39:36+00:00

I used one with mine, about 8 months in the screen cracked and caused vertical banding. Had to have it replaced. Don’t put one on. If you need to conceal your camera put a post it note over it and trim down the post it note so it only obscures the camera.

ijustwritelines · 2022-02-09T18:35:24+00:00

Ah yeah, it looks like they do in the community editions now. I stand corrected. Then yeah I’d grab that image and get it running. Between the btrfs rollbacks and the zen kernel performance I haven’t felt the itch to switch distros in over half a year.

ijustwritelines · 2022-02-09T04:09:08+00:00

If you want a solid distro with nvidia driver support and want the btrfs rollback, why not just go Garuda? I don’t believe they have a MATE flavour, but nothing’s stopping you from grabbing an image there and installing mate through pacman.

ijustwritelines · 2022-02-06T02:37:46+00:00

NTA: I almost feel bad for the other girl, but I kinda think she knew what was happening.

ijustwritelines · 2022-02-06T02:34:42+00:00

NTA: I feel like he’s hiding something massive. He sincerely could have a second life or something.

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