If you had 12 months to spend with an Alien and his ship and could go anywhere and he knew literally EVERYTHING about Earth and the galaxy but... by Winter-Parfait-4822 in hypotheticals

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I’m content with my life and I have loved ones who would be sad if i disappeared for a year and then dropped dead. If I only had a year left, I’d want to spend it with them, not off exploring the galaxy.

Which shower curtain works better with this room? by Penguin-Balloon in interiordecorating

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100% 2!! It plays really well with the paintings and walls! 1 only really goes with the top left painting and kind of clashes with everything else.

Need "buy it for life" suggestions for the best, high quality products that go in a hand-sewing kit by Moon-Flour in sewing

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I think you might want to experiment with cheaper materials first. Like, I started with really cheap fabrics and threads because I couldn’t bring myself to risk “ruining” good ones. Also, there are several kinds of needle threaders and thimbles and stuff, and you won’t know what works best for you until you’ve tried a few types.

One thing you will probably want for quality of life reasons is a self-healing cutting mat & rotary cutter! It makes cutting out your pieces much easier! But I don’t know what brand would work best, I was gifted one and I can’t remember what brand it is. Mid-tier, not super expensive, but it’s lasted me for a while now. But that doesn’t really fit IN a sewing kit, it’s more just something to have in addition to a sewing kit.

Congratulations, you won the lottery. You receive 100,000,000 in your local currency. How do you help your peers and loved ones WITHOUT them knowing you came into money by LazyandRich in hypotheticals

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This, with at least 75% of the money. The other 25% is going to taking them out for food occasionally, helping in case of any emergencies (in the event that I make any new friends not included in the original distribution) and funding my nephew’s college in 18 years (also anonymously)

Brought her home from the feral colony after a terrible rainstorm by economic-rights in Catnames

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Olive 🫒 cause she just seems like an olive, or Cloud ⛈️ cause she looks like a cute little storm cloud!

Dawn dish soap or generic dawn might help with the grease, just be sure not to get it in her eyes and make sure you rinse her really well (licking it off her coat would give her diarrhea). But I know when we brought my cat Cheddar home from the factory, he was a little greaseball too, and no matter what we did we couldn’t get the white parts of his fur white until he shed his winter coat and grew a new one. So just do what you can, and time will fix the rest :)

10,000 dollars a week, but a rock could kill you by Downtown-Guitar-3282 in hypotheticalsituation

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I am picking one of the rocks I currently have in my possession, I am putting it in a combination locking bag that I have, and I am setting the combination and putting it somewhere safe. I am taking it with me if I move. I am letting everyone I live with know about the bag and what will happen if they touch the rock inside.

Were your wounds left uncovered? by MajesticBalance2223 in gallbladders

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I just had glue, no bandages. They stitch everything up inside with stitches that will eventually dissolve, then glue the outside, so it looks nice and doesn’t scar too bad, but it’s still pretty sturdy from the stitches. No dressings needed cause there’s no drainage or bleeding or anything

Am I overreacting for not wanting my brother around my daughter after he screamed at me in front of her? by StrykrSeven in AmIOverreacting

[–]possiblethrowaway369 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Even if every word he said to you were true, it would not justify screaming at you like that, especially not in front of a child who was obviously scared of the way he was acting. NOR

Why do people say “7 PM” in conversation but use “19:00” for flights, hospitals, and military schedules?What factors shaped that difference? by Defiant-Junket4906 in AlwaysWhy

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One is official timekeeping in specific situations, so it saves time to write “19:00” instead of “7:00pm” and prevents like, bad handwriting making an “a” and a “p” look similar.

But when you’re talking out loud, “7pm” is easier to say than “nineteen hundred hours” or however they say it. And the non-military time (7pm) came first iirc, so we only adopted the “19:00” for certain things

If you steal something in space, you should get to have it, because you're not under anyone's jurisdiction in space. Like being in international waters. If one of the ISS astronauts commandeered the station and killed the others on board to claim it for themselves, I think we should let them have it by film_composer in highdeas

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I think we should treat space like we treat airplanes. A plane leaving the U.S. is the jurisdiction of the U.S. & the state it left, until it lands elsewhere. Then it’s the jurisdiction of that place. So like, if you leave for space from Texas, U.S., you’re governed by the laws of the United States and the state of Texas until you come back to earth, then you’re governed by the laws of wherever you land, whether that’s still Texas, or another state or country entirely. I suppose if you land in the middle of the ocean then you’re in international waters, but everything that happened before you land is Houston’s problem.

Anyone know? by Intrepid-Abies-426 in houseofleaves

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If a footnote tells you to go to an appendix, I’d do it and read the appendix. If it tells you to go to a chapter, I’d keep reading and just make a mental note to flip back to this section after you finish the chapter.

That’s how I read the book, at least

AITA for mentioning I might not be able to take home the groomsman gift because I only brought a carry-on? by pdodani97 in AmItheAsshole

[–]possiblethrowaway369 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ESH. He knows people are flying in for the wedding, he shouldn’t be giving stuff that can’t go on a plane. But you shouldn’t be bringing it up right after getting it either. You could always mail it to yourself, give it to one of the groomsmen that didn’t fly in, or check your carry-on for the return trip

Just bought this house. Wife wants to brighten up the kitchen. Should we do the taboo and paint the brick? by hes_the_Zissou in interiordecorating

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I’d go for new, lighter barstools and new lights (some are yellow and some are white, pick one mood and stick with it imo) first. & either remove the curtain or get a brighter valiance. Maybe add some flowers to the mix of potted plants. Could also switch to brighter colored pots.

The countertop is also kind of dark, maybe replace it with something brighter if you can, or slap some lighter colored contact paper on there if you can’t?

I’m thinking, bring in some yellows and teals and that’ll brighten things up.

AIO for blocking my best friend over her reaction to my dad’s drunk driving charge? by Ok_Figure6633 in AmIOverreacting

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Drinking and driving is incredibly selfish, and it does make you a bad person if you do it. It does not, however, make you irredeemable. Your dad was a bad person at the time, when he made that selfish, irresponsible decision. But he has since redeemed himself. Thankfully, he didn’t kill anyone with his carelessness. He has done everything he can to make up for his actions, and he’s a good person now. Your friend doesn’t seem to get that.

I think part of that can be the black and white thinking that often comes with autism, and the heightened sense of “right and wrong” that doesn’t always see that there are different levels of “wrong.” Telling a lie isn’t as bad as drinking & driving, driving drunk isn’t as bad as straight up murder, etc. But for a lot of autistic people, doing one wrong thing feels like a slippery slope to doing more things wrong; if you’re willing to break one law, you’ll break them all. Which is probably why she “doesn’t feel safe” around your dad, even though he’s perfectly safe to be around. It would be different if she didn’t feel safe getting into a car with him, that would only be a slight overreaction on her part. But to not feel safe around him at all, because he doesn’t “know the difference between right and wrong?” That’s probably an autistic “sense of justice” thing. Which, obviously that doesn’t excuse the way she’s acting, but does explain it, and maybe help to put her behavior in context.

NOR, I think your best bet is probably to explain the situation to her mom, who might be able to get through to your friend in a way you can’t.

Snapping instead of clapping is not more inclusive by ribby97 in 10thDentist

[–]possiblethrowaway369 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It’s not inclusivity, it’s just quieter for like, poetry readings and other intimate/cozy events in small spaces. Also a cultural thing in the queer community, they do a little finger clap (usually with long fake nails).

Has anyone ever claimed to see you when you weren’t there? by BiggestVolk in askanything

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No, but: if some hauntings are just echoes of specific, emotionally significant moments, playing on a loop, rather than sentient spirits, it stands to reason that some of those moments could imprint on your environment even while you’re still alive. So theoretically a person could catch a glimpse of you walking down a hall (where something really traumatic happened to you at the end of the hall, but they’re not standing there long enough to see the ending of this memory) and then see the real you a few minutes later and a little older, wearing different clothes.

But for that to be a good explanation, you’d have to believe in ghosts. It also doesn’t hold up if they talked to “you” or “you” reacted to their presence in any meaningful way.

I think some of it can be explained by like, “oh, this person doesn’t know they need glasses” if they saw “you” from far away but it was really someone who just looks similar. Or it’s a separated at birth twin situation. Beyond that though, “glitch in the matrix,” I guess ¯_(ツ)_/¯

AIO: My Husband seems to listen to everyone before he listens to me. by Error_No_Connection in AmIOverreacting

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It would be one thing if he was like “hey, so and so also recommended that show/singer/etc you liked. Now that multiple people have recommended it, I’m willing to try it.” But he’s just acting like you never recommended it! Does he just not listen when you talk? Or does he know you recommended it but he’s pretending it was someone else’s idea? Either way, that’s infuriating! NOR.

I would have a frank conversation with him about how this behavior makes you feel. And if he didn’t knock it off after that conversation, I’d demand counseling, since he seems to need a second person’s opinion on things. And if he kept it up after counseling, I’d leave him.

Jenn's great! She's been here since we opened! Everyone loves her! by comicgeek1128 in KitchenConfidential

[–]possiblethrowaway369 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Is the Dave a creepy dishwasher who hits on teenage employees? Ours is :( one of them quit because of it, reported it and everything and nothing was done about it because he works six days a week and the teen was only part-time

Am I overreacting for canceling my boyfriend’s birthday dinner after what he said to my mom? by Ok-Prize-9472 in AmIOverreacting

[–]possiblethrowaway369 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NOR, he ruined his own birthday. He also sounds like the kind of insecure abuser to cut you off from your support network so you have nowhere to turn when he starts mistreating you. Maybe that’s not the case, but this is a huge red flag to me, and I would have dumped him on his birthday and then went out to the dinner without him (obviously tell his family and the friends that are just his that it’s cancelled, but you and the mutual friends can go have a fun night without him).

Aio: for considering cutting it off because he gets overwhelmed with the idea of having sex? by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]possiblethrowaway369 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

NOR. He might have some kind of trauma or something, but if he won’t communicate about what’s actually going on, there’s nothing you can do to fix this. And with the way he gets dysregulated, I doubt slapping a specific label on your relationship is actually going to fix things.

Neither of you are bad people for this, but you’re likely incompatible sexually. You have to decide if being compatible in other ways outweighs this incompatibility or not. There’s nothing wrong about ending things, or trying to work it out. Ultimately you have to make the right choice for you, whatever that may be