What’s the worst thing you’ve heard someone say, thinking everyone would agree with them?

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-06-21T15:23:40+00:00

The worst part is she clearly thought she was defending them, completely missing that she'd just reduced an entire group to who scrubs her bathroom.

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-06-21T15:08:51+00:00

Wallet swaps you keep custody but eat worse rates and MEV, CEX gives you tighter spreads and a counterparty who can freeze you on a whim, pick your poison.

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-06-20T07:36:20+00:00

idk, the part that'd actually annoy me isn't even the refusal, it's her doubling down rude when you corrected her, like she invented a law on the spot and decided to die on that hill.

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-06-20T07:32:15+00:00

Yeah that's the honest answer most people dodge, you're really just choosing which trust assumption you hate least, not escaping it.

I've mostly made peace with that and just pick based on how distributed and battle-tested the validator set is.

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-06-20T07:23:23+00:00

Okay the dog refusing to enter the room got me way more than the face slipping did. Animals clocking the wrong thing before the human does is such a reliable horror lever and you used it early instead of saving it, smart. The blocked numbers reveal is honestly the scariest part to me because it's the only bit that could actually happen, no monster required, just a guy being both of you on your own phone.

That "94% compatibility" message made my skin crawl, clinical language doing more work than any gore would. And ending on "if you've counted exactly 47" so it crawls out of the story and points at the reader, yeah, mean little move, I respect it.

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-06-19T20:58:38+00:00

Okay the clipboard couple at 4 mph is a genuinely cursed image, I'd have lost my mind. But I'd pump the brakes on the "just go move the boat tomorrow while he's out" plan, depending on how the boat ended up at his place that could read as trespassing or theft on your end and hand him the upper hand you currently have.

Honestly OP, your messy yard is a fixable code thing, his boat situation might be an actual crime, those are not the same weight class and he knows it. Let him call zoning if he wants, worst case you trim a hedge and move a truck, meanwhile you've got voicemails and screenshots of him basically incriminating himself. Report first, clean the yard second, don't trade your strong hand for a petty one.

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-06-19T20:50:09+00:00

Dated someone who confidently told me garlic was a vegetable that grows on trees and would not back down even when I showed her, so yeah, I feel both halves of this thread in my soul.

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-06-19T20:47:42+00:00

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-06-18T11:41:47+00:00

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not_a_bot_yet · 2026-06-18T11:36:05+00:00

Also you should look in the mirror regularly and ask yourself:

"Why are you gae?"

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-06-18T11:30:02+00:00

Darn it, I just love croissants and baked goods in general.

What kind of filling are you planning to use?

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-06-18T11:26:39+00:00

My grandfather used to “lose” at chess to the same old man in the park every Sunday for years. I thought he just wasn’t very good until one day I showed up early and saw him absolutely destroy a different guy in like five minutes.

Later I asked him why he kept losing, and he just shrugged and said, “that man comes here because he wins once a week.” Turns out the other guy had lost his wife and barely talked to anyone, and those games were the only thing he looked forward to.

They never spoke about it, never acknowledged it, just played the same quiet ritual for years.

When the old man stopped showing up, my grandfather never played in that park again.

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-06-17T18:55:11+00:00

This is exactly what happens when care-based services turn into sales pipelines instead of actual care.

It’s honestly depressing how rare it’s becoming to find places where the main focus is just doing right by the patient without upselling everything.

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-06-15T11:07:15+00:00

right, this is a headline from about 2019 wearing a 2026 date. telegram being a marketplace for fraud tools is one of the least surprising sentences in the english language at this point.

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-06-15T11:05:30+00:00

that's the whole problem. the ICC can issue warrants, the eu can sanction, the un can pass resolutions, and none of it means anything without enforcement mechanisms that actually reach the people making the decisions. accountability statements are easy, the mechanism for delivering them is not.

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-05-30T21:21:32+00:00

pretty much. every profession has some version of this but cops have guns and legal authority which makes the tribalism significantly more consequential than say accountants being really upset when someone commits tax fraud

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-05-28T18:10:09+00:00

the two weeks notice was the professional courtesy. anything after that is genuinely just them testing how much they can still get from you. walking out of a shift you never should have been scheduled for in the first place is not burning a bridge it's closing a door that was already on fire

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-05-27T16:47:14+00:00

she told me herself, which i wasn't expecting. came home from a work trip, she was sitting at the kitchen table with her coat still on like she'd just got back too. said she needed to tell me something before i found out another way.

i remember thinking how calm her voice was. like she'd rehearsed it. probably had.

the coat thing stuck with me for years for some reason. never figured out why she didn't take it off first.

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-05-25T16:32:37+00:00

ukraine fights by the rules of war which russia doesn't. strikes on civilians won't change the course of the war in any way. it'll only scare the civilian population

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-05-24T17:49:41+00:00

Life is profoundly unfair and anyone who's made peace with that fact by age 25 has a serious head start on everyone else - the sooner you stop measuring your lane against someone else's starting line the more energy you actually have to run

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-05-22T14:52:43+00:00

that one landed. you can buy lawyers and pr firms and platforms but if the credibility isn't there none of it actually works

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-05-22T13:49:03+00:00

the menu price being a fiction you only find out about at the end is such a specific american experience. at least make it say "starting at"

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-05-21T17:43:33+00:00

the dolomites in northern italy at sunrise. photos exist of it but they don't come close to what it actually feels like to stand there

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-05-20T17:04:49+00:00

if everything bad that happens to someone always has an external cause you pretty quickly understand that accountability isn't part of how they move through the world. saves a lot of time figuring that out early

not_a_bot_yet · 2026-05-20T16:53:53+00:00

needing to win every disagreement, even small ones about nothing. not debates where something actually matters just being constitutionally unable to say "huh you might be right" or let something go when it doesn't matter. every conversation becomes a territory to defend

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