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Man Shares Joke With Dalai Lama, Endless Laughter Ensues

Interviewer Being Incredibly Condescending To Tiger Woods

Cheating Ex Tries To Land Partner With Phone Bill, Mom Intervenes

Students Have Stupidly Genius Solution to Group Presentation

Twitter Thread: Star Trek and the Inhumanity of Gig Economies

"Not My Job" Moments of Impressive Unprofessionalism

Elevator Karen Spits Verbal Venom At Kid, Kid Pretends To Be Blind

Guy Lends Friend Shoes For Wedding, Friend Documents Shoes' Journey

Terrifying Signs that Speak the Language of Fear

Sister-In-Law Makes Bride Cry, Gets Booted From Wedding

Behaviors that Feel Rude but Really Aren't

Twitter Thread: 9-Year-Old Amasses Neopets Empire

Tumblr Thread: Linguistics Misunderstandings Between Generations

Woman Tells Terrible Lies, Gets Put On The News

Ducks Talk To Each Other

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Man Shares Joke With Dalai Lama, Endless Laughter Ensues

Rumor has it that the Dalai Lama is still laughing to this day.

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Tagged: Dalai Lama , news , jokes , ridiculous , buddhism , Video

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Interviewer Being Incredibly Condescending To Tiger Woods

Kudos to Tiger Woods for standing his ground and fielding that aggressively condescending tone with some stern professionalism. Tiger didn't seem fazed one bit.

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Tagged: sports , golf , FAIL , cringe , Tiger Woods , ridiculous , Video

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Cheating Ex Tries To Land Partner With Phone Bill, Mom Intervenes

Those cheaters never win. In this case, we have a cheating ex who tried to land their poor partner with a hefty phone bill. Well, soon as mom heard wind of her son's immoral antics she handled the situation quickly. Getting the money back was nice, but you can't put a price on the value of having that last laugh. Good for them.

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Text - r/pettyrevenge u/captainduckworth • 20d + Join 1 Cheating ex tried to land me with a huge phone bill so I ratted to his mother This was a good few years ago now but it still puts a smile on my face. I'd been in a relationship with a guy (let's call him Steve) who seemed super nice on the surface but turned out to be pretty manipulative and a habitual cheater.

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Text - While we were together I took out a phone contract for Steve in my name, as his credit score was poor and the company wouldn't give him one. It was all fine and I never had any problems with him paying me back, even when we broke up. Then, a month before the contract was up, I had a bombshell dropped on me by a mutual friend who had found out the extent of Steve's cheating and lies and thought I deserved to know. I'd once been suspicious about Steve's relationship with a particular woman,

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Text - Needless to say, I confronted Steve (though I did it as coolly as I could). I was pissed, l'd wasted literal years of my life being taken for an idiot. Not only that but the manipulation had continued long after the break-up, as we'd stayed "friends", and I was finally done with it. I told him that I was cutting him out of my life, and that I never wanted to hear from him again.

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Text - My confrontation didn't go down well, but by this point he'd already sent me the money for the final month of the contract so I thought it was all ok on that front. I was wrong - turns out Steve could still rack up a pretty big charge if he went over his data allowance, something he'd always been super careful not to do. That's why I was pretty sure it was deliberate when I was sent a final bill for close to 80 dollars. I could have covered the bill and kept that door closed, but it would

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Text - I contacted the company to make sure the charge wasn't down to some overseen contract clause, and that he really had stacked up that bill in excess charges alone. He had. Seems he didn't like no longer having control over me. Determined to get my money back, I tried to get in touch with Steve - but he'd blocked me on every single avenue of contact I had for him. It was then I realised that I still had his mother's number in my contacts.

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Text - Immediately I texted her with an outline of what had happened - that l'd confronted her son about his treatment of me and that I was convinced he'd deliberately landed me with a big phone bill as some sort of petty pay-back. While she wasn't impressed that her son's drama was landing on her doorstep via me, she asked for proof of the bill and said she'd sort it. The money landed in my account within an hour and I was free of him forever. I wish l'd seen the look on his face when his mothe

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Text - I know he occasionally still stirs shit about me years later, as the odd petty comment on his social media sometimes makes it back to me through friends - if anything, this makes my petty determination even sweeter. Having the money was nice, but getting the last laugh was better. TL;DR, my cheating ex didn't like being discovered and tried to get his own back by racking up charges on a phone bill I managed as a favor - I ratted to his mother and got every cent back, like to think I embar

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Students Have Stupidly Genius Solution to Group Presentation

Doing a group project and presentation is hard enough, but having to prove that each person did a totally equal amount of work during the presentation? These guys figured out a stupidly genius way to handle it. Reminds us of this lazy genius approach to a school project. As annoying as this teacher's rule was, many teachers manage to say much more wild junk.

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Text - r/MaliciousCompliance · Posted by u/Thedepressionoftrees 20 hours ago Everyone must present equally. Okay, you got it oc s Way back in my junior year in high school, me and three of my friends had this one teacher that we all hated. One of the main reasons why we hated this guy was because if you didn't follow his instructions to the T, he would give you an F on the assignment. Cast: Me: me Friends I'll call Dave, Sam, and Ben (not real names)

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Text - That year, the teacher told us that we had an oral presentation to do in groups of four, and that every member must give the same amount of the presentation. He said that if the amount given was unequal, we would all receive an F. My friends and I came up with a plan. We wrote our presentation so that the number of words in it was divisible by four. The day the presentation was due, we stood at the front of the class.

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Text - Teacher: okay, go. Мe: so Dave: our Sam: project Ben: is Me: about Dave: nuclear Sam: power Ben: and

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Text - Me: the Dave: benefits Sam: that Ben:it Me: offers We did the whole presentation that way. It was pretty great. We all got A's 1 1 2

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Text - ipod55g Score hidden · 23 hours ago Like a beastie boys presentation.

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Text - runningkraken Score hidden · 21 hours ago Ben's words are shorter than everyone else's. You all get Fs. /s As a former teacher, I would've probably thought this was funny and clever and given all As too. Thedepressionoftrees, Score hidden - 17 hours ago Lol, thanks!

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Text - PedroHicko Score hidden · 15 hours ago I thought you were going to say you all had 0 words and therefore met the even presentation criteria

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Twitter Thread: Star Trek and the Inhumanity of Gig Economies

Twitter user _danilo uses an example from Star Trek to explain some of the dangers of having an industry that lacks face-to-face interaction with its own workers. It's scary enough to imagine your job being done by a cold, calculating robot, but what if your boss's job was done by a cold, calculating robot? For something with more Star Trek fun and less technocratic dread, here's an awesome Tumblr post on how hard humans go in Star Trek.

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo After the premiere of Picard name checked Bruce Maddox, decided to head back and watch Measure of a Man, TNG S2E09. And it turns out Maddox is a bit of a tech bro. Startling how well this holds up three decades later. This kind of guy is still a problem. 6:25 PM 24 Jan 20 · Tweetbot for iOS

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo As a refresher, The Measure of a Man was TNG at its hammiest, most thought provoking best. A courtroom drama where the fate of Data hinges on the question of whether he is sentient being deserving of what we'd call basic "human rights." 6:30 PM 24 Jan 20 · Tweetbot for iOS

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Text - After Riker delivers a devastating presentation that proves Data is an elaborate machine, Picard joins Guinan for a drink. Guinan warns Picard that civilizations love nothing more than to create "disposable people," to do the jobs no one else wants, with no recourse. 6:33 PM 24 Jan 20 · Tweetbot for iOS

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Text - Guinan's point is that by creating a special category that allows Data to be property by an arbitrary distinction, the Federation risks creating a permanent underclass. This was the lever Picard needed -he wins the argument by appealing to Starfleet's high mindedness. 6:38 PM 24 Jan 20 · Tweetbot for iOS.

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo This got me to thinking about Silicon Valley innovation. Today, androids are far beyond our technological capabilities. So what the Valley did was build it lean. Rather than building artificial laborers, the tech industry invented artificial supervisors. 6:40 PM · 24 Jan 20 · Tweetbot for iOS

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo When the algorithm determines who gets fired, when you work, what you get paid, and everything else about your daily life, there's no limit to the cruelty of the workplace. The human needs of the laborers are invisible to the software. 6:42 PM 24 Jan 20 · Tweetbot for iOS

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo You don't need to invent an entire android under this model, nor do you need to bear the costs of manufacture. The software becomes an abstraction around real humans, but the owners of the business never need see them or interact with them in a supervisory context. Rows in a db. 6:44 PM 24 Jan 20 Tweetbot for iOS

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo We're left with "algorithmically disposable people." Entirely commodified labor that can be discarded at will. No one has to look them in the eye when they're fired. No one need think of their kids or dependent parents. No one has to worry about a thing -except the workers. 6:46 PM 24 Jan 20 - Tweetbot for iOS

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo Gig workers are precarious not only because they lack benefits, but also because the everyday bedrock of their work is determined by a black box algorithm designed to extract maximum profit for a distant corporation. They are raw material to be optimized. 6:51 PM: 24 Jan 20: Tweetbot for ios

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo And what is so dark about this is that the software is perfectly suited to this task. Software perfectly shields the humans profiting from this one-sided equation from confronting the personal toll it takes on the algorithmically disposable people the company is chewing through. 6:54 PM : 24 Jan 20 - Tweetbot for ios

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo One of the most striking parts of @Mikelsaac's Super Pumped is how OPTIONAL it was for Uber management to interact with drivers. They could hide away, pop out to interact with the drivers IF THEY WANTED, and go back into hiding again, and the machine kept working either way. 6:56 PM 24 Jan 20 Tweetbot for iOS

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo This isn't just a function of software. This is also an outcome of an unequal economy. You can't treat workers as disposable if they they have more appealing, more reliable, more humane alternatives. The gig economy depends on economic desperation and limited opportunity. 6:59 PM : 24 Jan 20 · Tyweetbot for iOS

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo So this isn't JUST Silicon Valley's fault. It's a a symptom of an enormous broken system. But it illustrates how this industry can use software to extract value from vulnerable populations with limited recourse. We have a lot of work to do to make this right for people. 7:01 PM 24 Jan 20 · Tweetbot for iOS

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo All of this is an inversion of the drama Star Trek imagined. But its warning is still important: Automation can be used to hide our cruelty from view. But we're still responsible for it. 7:06 PM 24 Jan 20 · Tweetbot for iOS

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"Not My Job" Moments of Impressive Unprofessionalism

"Hey, all you told me to do was change the sign, it's not my problem that now it just says "Sign Changed." For every person who's good at their job, it seems like there's someone out there who's incredibly good at not doing their job. The resulting "not my job" moments are a testament to buck-passers everywhere.

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Elevator Karen Spits Verbal Venom At Kid, Kid Pretends To Be Blind

This kid's spontaneous decision to pretend that he was blind when faced with a rude Karen in the uncomfortably crammed confines of an elevator, was pure genius. He managed to awaken Karen's buried sense of humanity, and actually get her to calm down. That is no easy task. Wonder if this strategy works on all the angry Karens out there. Check out some more juicy Karen drama with this story about the time that Karen and Karen Jr. tried to cheat the school system, and got outed.

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Text - captainthaddiusflorencefrancis inventivefraud Follow gale-of-the-nomads Follow Did I ever tell you guys how I met a Karen on a cruise when I was 13, got yelled at by her and before I proceeded to make her regret her life choices in the span of 3 minutes on an elevator? gale-of-the-nomads Follow Okay so this was 11 years ago. I was 13 and I was on a cruise for my Cousin's quinceanera (Royal Caribbean gave discounts for those)

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Text - So My cousin was doing some stuff related to the event and didn't have time to get food, so She asked me, my sister and a Family friend who was my age to go get her some pizza from one of the lower floors. So we moved from the pool deck to get on the elevator. Now we didn't see anyone coming, so naturally I pressed the Elevator close button. and just as it was half-way closed, this crazy woman JUMPS IN, causing the the Elevator doors to sputter and then open. The older woman, (who was a c

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Text - "I'm Sorry, Im Blind." The Karen's eyes went wide and her mouth closed. She looked at me, unsure of how to respond to that. Normally this would be an obvious lie. But I was wearing Sunglasses and she couldn't see my eyes. I also wasn't looking directly at her. So the elevator ride was silent. My sister and My fam friend were doing their best not to laugh. A family got on and got off the elevator over the course of the ride. The woman does make another snide comment. "Why didn't you close

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Text - Her face goes back to confusion. She is starting to think. "Oh s***. I think I have been insulting a blind kid. Unfortunately, I realized that we were all heading to the same floor. I knew I was screwed once we got off on the floor. So, I made a gamble. When we arrived on the floor, the elevator announced the floor number. I stuck my arm out, Waiting, Praying my sister would understand. She knew what I was going for. She took my hand and led me out of the elevator and away from the mean K

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Guy Lends Friend Shoes For Wedding, Friend Documents Shoes' Journey

Sometimes the purest expression of friendship is to give your buddy a hard time. Take this guy for instance, who lent his friend a pair of snazzy kicks for his wedding. His buddy could've sent him a ton of warm, bubbly, wholesome pictures of people celebrating at the wedding. Instead, he decided to document the shoes' journey. That last shot is gold. Those shoes look so happy.

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Text - M I'm getting mad Fri, 9:00 PM What a night! Fri, 10:07 PM Omg I almost choked Dude you're the worst Fri, 10:08 PM

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Terrifying Signs that Speak the Language of Fear

Put simply, there are a lot of things out there that can kill you, such as electricity, fires, electricity fires, strong currents, loose animals, and accidentally wandering into firing ranges. Even a big hole can be ridiculously dangerous if it's deceptively placed. It's better that we have spooky signs to remind us that, while we're basically at the top of the food chain, we aren't invincible. The signs can get pretty creepy though.

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Sister-In-Law Makes Bride Cry, Gets Booted From Wedding

This guy asked the folks of Reddit whether or not he was in the wrong for booting a sister-in-law who seemed hellbent on stealing the show from the actual bride on her wedding day. There are certain lines that people just can't cross on the big wedding day. The day is already dramatic and tense enough without people acting like senseless, selfish human beings. Seems like this family did the only thing they could do to salvage the wedding, and spare the bride any avoidable tears when she was literally walking down the aisle.

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Text - AITA For Kicking My Sister-in-law Out of My Wedding? So my now sister-in-law has been a pain in my now wifes' ass for a very long time. She is always trying to "one up" her in every way possible. I have also heard a lot of stories where she has done some pretty messed up stuff to my wife, including skinny dipping with her ex while my wife and him were still together, Lying and saying that I liked her first (in highschool) which is completely untrue just to break us up, and turning my wife

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Text - the bridesmaids and after a long argument my wife just said she doesn't care anymore. I was in the groomsroom and i started hearing things like "why would she do that?" and "She's in white!" so i ask my mother what is going on and she explains to me that my sister-in-law is wearing white to her own sisters wedding. My mother then tells me that my wife is crying her eyes out so i tell my mother to just kick her out, which she does. My wifes entire family was furious at my mother and me the

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Text - XercinVex • 13h • Asshole Enthusiast [5] NTA - trash SIL did NOT deserve a chance to steal the show Reply 6.5k ...

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Text - Petitechonk • 13h Absolutely not!! OP you probably saved what would have been a rather stressful memory for your wife. To wear white to a wedding, bad To wear white specifically to upstage the bride, bad To get engaged at a wedding, extra bad and hella tacky Just imagine trying to look back at your wedding photos and NOT be reminded of that behavior! Your wife has clearly expressed her feelings about all this behavior to you in the past, and you didn't go against her wishes. Is it a dick

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Text - Funkystepz • 13h NTA it's not about her. Good job for getting your wife's back Reply 195 ...

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Text - dellaevaine • 13h • Asshole Aficionado [12] NTA. She's trash and you were protecting your wife. Reply 1 315 ...

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Text - aribeiro659 • 13h • Asshole Enthusiast [5] NTA. Honestly the sister and anyone who is saying you shouldn't have had her removed are the assholes in this story. Reply 81 ...

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Text - SmartassMouth89 • 13h • Colo-rectal Surgeon [31] NTA play stupid games win stupid prizes. Reply 666 ...

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Text - ForeverlnWonderlust • 11h 1 Award Y-T-A for not "tripping" while wolding a glass of red wine next to your SIL. And I'm glad you stand up for your wife and had a great day. I suspect your SIL twisted the story she told the family, because you said they are usually great people and take your and wife's side. And congrats for the baby NTA a million times Reply 55

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Text - dr_frosty_funk • 13h NTA. You did what had to be done what your SIL deserved. YTA because you did not give your SIL much of a hell mate. I am very happy that you're having a baby. Just dont call that SIL to your baby's shower prolly she might show up with a baby bump without knowing who the dad would be lol. Also congrats on your new life. Reply 63 ...

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Text - Ghuleh5811 • 8h NTA. What's wrong with her? Why is she so jealous of your wife? What's the deal with ruining her life? Sorry for all the questions, I just can't comprehend why she's being the way she is. Reply 12

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Text - JntJ8068 • 12h NTA! Your sil deserved it and if your wife's family doesn't like it they can get the boot too! You're awesome for having your wife's back congratulations on your marriage and your baby and I'm wishing a healthy, easy pregnancy and a safe delivery for your wife and baby Reply 1 13 ...

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Text - Smiley-Canadian • 11h NTA. You and your Mom handled it perfectly. Your wife's family are T A for not reprimanding her sister. Her sister is clearly an awful, selfish, manipulative, and entitled person. A few things to consider: 1. Go no contact with the sister, likely forever. She's a bully, insecure, jealous, and vindictive. She's not remorseful and will never change no matter what your wife says or does. The sister adds nothing good to your wife's life. Time to let the sister go. 2. Mak

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Text - actually_kate • 12h • Partassipant [3] NTA. Thank goodness your wife has you and your family to have her back, because she comes from a garbage family of horrible people. Sounds like this sister is the spoiled brat golden child of the family, considering how your wife's family always takes her side; your wife's probably been bullied and abused by her since childhood. Real family is the one you choose to make, not necessarily always the one you're born into. Your wife has a real family now

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Text - Bug_a_boo_Mama • 12h • Asshole Aficionado [14] NTA. Her sister is a piece of work and just horrible. So glad yo hear you kicked her ass out, and id put money down they were going to get engaged at the reception Reply ...

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Text - Malfoysmirks • 10h NTA. SIL is a jealous attention seeking asshole. The boyfriend is also a real Summer's Eve for proposing on your wedding day. Reply ...

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Text - pinkcherry99 • 12h NTA. Great job on supporting your new wife and congratulations on getting married! Just tell all those people texting you that if they had such an issue with it why didn't they say something anytime they saw your wife crying over something her sister said? Reply ...

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Text - iaincaradoc • 11h • Asshole Enthusiast [7] NTA. Cut her out. Along with anyone who verbalizes an opinion that you "overreacted." Reply ...

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Text - WhySoManyOstriches • 10h NTA. Y'know, I have a sister like that. I was GOING to have my bridesmaids all just pick out knee length black dresses for my wedding- until Sis One up started gassing on about how she "wanted a FULL BALL GOWN SKIRT and a CASHMERE SWEATER on top". Yeahno. I went to David's bridal and picked out 3 possible dresses for them to choose from w/in 24 hours. We also have a saying for Sis One up among our generation: "If her lips are moving? It's a lie." So, your darling

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Text - HygorBohmHubner • 11h I'm not even involved... and I feel like l've aged twenty years just by reading about her stunts. I can't even imagine the stress you and your wife have to deal with her. That woman is crazy! NTA! Reply ...

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Text - resilientspirit • 9h NTA Congrats on wedding. Your wife nailed a keeper! Reply 2 1 ...

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Text - annoyedpotatolady • 9h NTA SIL is a jealous little harpy, and she can grow bitter or grow better, but she better do it away from you. Your wife on the other hand.. She found the dude who will stand up for her, even against her own family. That's really sweet. Reply 2 + ...

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Behaviors that Feel Rude but Really Aren't

If you're like most people, you have an invisible obligation to be basically decent to the people around you. Politeness isn't required in daily life, but it's typically necessary for someone who wants to get through life as seamlessly as possible. That said, there are loads of social conventions we don't necessarily think about where our desire to get what we want clashes with our desire to not seem rude. Sure, there are generally agreed upon d*ck moves and signs someone wasn't raised right, but these are things that many of us stress over when we don't really have to.

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Twitter Thread: 9-Year-Old Amasses Neopets Empire

Twitter user @everestpipkin shares an awesome tale about the time he was nine years old and proceeded to get completely inebriated with power on the infamous Neopets video game. It's quite the little rollercoaster, and might bring some people back.

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Text - everest @everestpipkin every few years i email neopets support asking if they can help me log into my childhood account and (unsurprisingly, tiny team, millions of old accounts) i've never heard back

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Text - everest @everestpipkin my childhood neopets account recovery was on an email address i haven't had in decades, which was linked to my father's long-defunct aol account. i also used some fake birthday to access the age-limited forums (which you have to provide) so i figured i was locked out for good

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Text - everest @everestpipkin but today, when i was writing my biannual email to neopets support, i was like ... wait .. .i bet there has been a neopets hack. they still use http to log in for christsakes! surely there has been a neopets hack .........

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Text - everest @everestpipkin and sure enough, there was a MASSIVE leak in 2013. checked that old email address against the requisite websites, yep, included. it was a bad one. passwords, emails, DOB, IP address - all in plaintext. perfect

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Text - everest @everestpipkin a 2013 leak of old neopets accounts is not actually a particularly in-demand document and it took hours of clicking around sketchy forums with my eyes half closed. but eventually i found the download! 5 gb of neopets credentials

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Text - everest @everestpipkin found my account somewhere around npdump_200.txt. had the fake DOB and everything (and the incredibly insecure password). went to log in... and obviously somebody had been there before me and changed my password because the hack has been online for 7 years, i mean come on

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Text - everest @everestpipkin but it reminded me of why i stopped playing neopets in the first place, which is that neopets took down my organized crime ring based on this exact same circumstance ??

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Cartoon - everest @everestpipkin okay so if you weren't on neopets in 2000 or so, general conceit is you can make some pets, they come in some set colors, and you can do lots of stuff with them including /paint them/ which was like a number #1 way to show off to the general community the TM

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Text - everest @everestpipkin as a preteen precriminal, i made a tidy little neopoints profit on "adopting out" painted pets, for slightly cheaper than a neopets paintbrush would run you (which was very expensive). honestly a bit of a puppy farm situation but we all make do

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Cartoon - everest @everestpipkin this was not official- neopets had a "pound" where you could drop unwanted pets for adoption. so me and party 2 would get on AIM, they'd buy some overpriced item in my shop , then i'd put the pet up for adoption, they'd search its name at the exact moment, adopt it, done Adopt Abandon Adopt don't disown Neopian Adoption Centre Today! your poor Neopet!

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Text - everest @everestpipkin the way i had painted pets at less than paintbrush prices was because of "the lab ray", which was accessed via the world's longest treasure hunt. but once you assembled the map you got access to a button that basically did something random to one of your pets once a day Welcome to the treasure hunt! Hidden around the Neopets site are nine pieces of a map that lead to riches! W part of the map, come to this page and you can see your progress. When the map is complete

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Text - everest @everestpipkin so my poor, sweet pets would get zapped until they turned an interesting color, then sold for profit, then i'd make a new pet (which is free), then repeat The Laboratory Now you must choose one of your pets... But I like being a Kougra. But I like being a Hissi. What if I turn into a Please dont do this! frog? Carry on with the Experiment! IGEED

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Text - everest @everestpipkin eventually this operation grew out of the scale one small child could provide after elementary school in the library. so i decided to start a guild

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Text - everest @everestpipkin guilds in neopets are social. you have ranked roles, private forums, an html page you can design yourself (fancy!), etc. mine was invite only. the conditions were thus; Nee Dragon Riders j Fer Chanona Fore Eang Fore F Neighbourheod: Fire Foerie Volcano Guld Council Tucowexa raynn Ovalie D M.tigamani V. Inkin park Options .Home Messages . Calendar . Members Invite Link • Join Guild Goild Hews Gees Here Sub Council Goes Here Guld Stats Page Views: 1960 Members 104 Mes

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Text - everest @everestpipkin you shall be provided with a lab map. you shall actively be zapping a pet for the guild at all times. i will handle the "adoption". i will pay you a percentage of each adoption fee, after the lab map is paid back.

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Text - everest @everestpipkin this goes on for a while, we grow in power, we are small but influential, we are well regarded. i am filthy rich

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Text - everest @everestpipkin eventually, though, my avarice grows. i am tired of simply managing others for a portion of profit. i need more accounts

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Text - everest @everestpipkin at first, i ask my friends at school. "are you still playing neopets? would you mind if i took over your account? i'll pay you!" then, i'd offer to babysit forum friend's accounts - as long as i could have an empty slot for my experiments

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Text - everest @everestpipkin finally, even this is not enough. i start going through the user search and find an account that hasn't logged on in a year or two. i go to log in. i type in their name. i pause at the password. i type password. nope. i type passwOrd. no. i type dOggy. and i'm in

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Text - everest @everestpipkin my friends, THE RUSH I FELT at nine years old, staring at the friendly neopets welcome screen AND FOUR PETS WHO WERE NOT MINE. the adrenaline. the horror. the pride

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Cartoon - neopets.com on thedadaheobets com thedatannt neopets m the pet thedat ercentral pm thedal ycom games.room OCreate apet Neopets Games eis.col thefulyneopets.com thefolyneopets.com the 8 neomail This is our new, easier way of finding games. Either click on one of the four o the categories below, or type in the game you wish to play in the box. For instance, if dstoewant to play Zurroball you could try typing 'ball'. If you fancy a challenge, try typing in 'Spell' or 'Thade'. world explor

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Text - everest @everestpipkin i was careful. i sat on the account for a week, doing nothing. waiting to see if anyone would notice. tempting them to log back on, to tell me it was not abandoned

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Text - everest @everestpipkin at first i just fed the pets. it was practically charity! i played some of the once-a-day games and did well. then, i thought to myself, well they'd notice if their account balance went UP, wouldn't they? i quickly transferred the excess to myself

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Text - everest @everestpipkin then i transferred the rest to myself. then i gave the account a lab map. and then, i realized that i would have to cross the unthinkable bridge- this account had 4 pets, the limit at the time. there wasn't an extra slot. for my scheme, i'd have to zap... one of their pets

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Text - everest @everestpipkin i want to say i hesitated, but i was nine and drunk on power and i simply did it. the pet transformed from an aisha to, i believe, a buzz. i thought about how they would feel, returning to a totally different species. would they think they had misremembered? imagined it? i smiled

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Text - everest @everestpipkin over the course of 6 months, my guild /transformed/. we had a process. we had a hit list of accounts. we collated thousands of probable passwords. we made enemies, and we took them out. we grew exponentially. i turned 10

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Text - everest @everestpipkin this went on for some time, and i actually grew a bit bored of it all- lonely at the top, plagued by text files of account names and passwords, my real life friends no longer playing neopets- i handed over day-to-day management of ~Painted Pets Adoption~ to my second in command

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Text - everest @everestpipkin until 2002. when paypal happened >

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Text - everest @everestpipkin up until this point i had not considered that neopoints were good for anything other than virtual bragging rights, and god i'd been rich for so long that what did it even matter anymore. but i was idly trawling the neopets forums, bored and grown up at 11, when -

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Text - everest @everestpipkin an offer. someone offering to exchange their neopoints for.. well.... us dollars. it worked much the same way as our own scheme. get on AIM, sell an overpriced item in the shop, send a paypal transfer, shake hands

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Text - everest @everestpipkin i was immediately fascinated. i floated it with the guild. .... they were horified! we had a perfect racket! what was i thinking, i'd get us shut down for sure

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Text - everest @everestpipkin i didn't care. i started flipping the guild over, redesigning our friendly "painted pets adoption :-)" page to be something much more sinister. but i misestimated how much power i still held -

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Text - everest @everestpipkin i'd been half absent for almost a year, and had given my second in command administrative powers, who had then promoted her own cronies. they kicked me out! of my own guild! but it was too late. i had plenty of power on my own

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Text - everest @everestpipkin i set up my first transfer using my personal shop, and it went - flawlessly. some small portion of all my accumulated neopets empire turned into $10 USD in my unverified paypal account. i was /living/.

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Text - everest @everestpipkin within a few weeks, i'd repeated the transfer dozens of times with different neopians. i'd never seen so much money in my life. i didn't even know what to do with it! i had some grand vision of ordering a gameboy color on ebay with pokemon yellow AND zelda

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Text - everest @everestpipkin i should have stopped there. i could have gotten out. but ... i had a bone to pick with my backstabbing second in command. and i had her login information

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Text - everest @everestpipkin i set up an AIM date. i had them set up the shop. i logged into her account. i made the deal. i left her with nothing

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Text - everest @everestpipkin and thats when she took 2 and half years of internal conversations, forum posts, text documents, and AIM chats to neopets support and got them to freeze every single account i had ever touched, including my paypal account which i never successfully recovered (being eleven)

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Text - everest @everestpipkin every account, that is, but one. it wasn't my main account, but i rather liked it. it had a good username. i played games on it! i had pets on it that were mine

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Text - everest @everestpipkin and its that account that i email neopets support about every couple of years, hoping maybe they've forgotten my crimes.

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Text - everest @everestpipkin and its that account that i found today in the 5 gb of neopets passwords. and, in some horrible, final twist of justice, that account which has had its password changed

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Tumblr Thread: Linguistics Misunderstandings Between Generations

This quick Tumblr thread highlights the main linguistics misunderstandings between the millennials and older generations. It boils down to saying "you're welcome" instead of "no problem" after being told, "thank you." The vampire analogy was spot on.

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Text - Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom Dear Every Cashier in America: the proper response to "thank you" is "you're welcome," not "no problem." And *you're* supposed to thank *me* 9/12/15, 8:31 PM trjoel "Millennials are so entitled"

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Text - lucasnoahs Actually, the you're welcome'/'no probiem" issue is simply a linguistics misunderstanding.. Older ppl tend to say you're welcome, younger ppl tend to say no problem. This is because for older people the act of helping or assiating someone is seen as a task that is not expected of them, but is them doing extra, so it's saying 'I accept your thanks because I know I deserve it. "No problem', however, is used because younger people feel not only that helping or assisting someone is

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Text - friendlyneighborhoodcommiescum A cunning vampire door-to-door salesperson who stands in people's doorways and talks until they can find a convenient moment to drop their pen and the person picks it up and the vampire says oh "Thank you" and the person says "you're welcome" and the vampire smiles a big fangy grin and steps inside

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Text - And that's this vampire's modus operandi for decades And then the language starts to change and suddenly millenials have homes and the vampire thanks them and they say "oh, no problem" and the vampire is like ???????????????? this was not the plan anneboleyns honestly the most unbelievable part of this is where millennials have homes eggcats the second most unbelievable is that the millennials don't just offer themselves up to die Source: cupofcoffin

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Woman Tells Terrible Lies, Gets Put On The News

Man, this is quite the rollercoaster. It's one of those stories involving a pathological liar, where it just goes from bad to worse, and then even worse. While we're grateful that things ended up working out for the people that suffered at the hands of Mindy's toxic tales of fiction, it's a bit of a bummer that she never faced legal consequences for her terrible decisions. Some people in this world really ditch the moral compass, and carry themselves like complete animals.