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INFO: Was the candle the only gift he got you? (27)

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Good on you! NOT an over reaction at all. I'm a pretty low key kinda girl. I know I'm a bit hard to buy for. But my husband does try and today I got some very nice things from him. But if he'd done that? I'd be incredibly hurt. Really upset. Just shows no concern or love for you at all. He did not even try a little bit. That's just awful.So sorry you are having a shit day now. And nope. I wouldn't want to be hosting any darn dinner for anyone. Block the whole lot of them after sending them all a text telling them to frick off and leave you alone. And after only 3 years of marriage? Your husband is like this? That's very bad sign, Frankly? I'd review my marriage to that man. YOu are too young to already be stuck in a marriage where your husband treats you like shit. I've been married 30 years and we have had our ups and downs. But he has never treated me that disrespectfully and with such lack of kindness or decency. Think hard whether you stay with that man. Truly. (1)

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NTA for being upset about getting a thoughtless present from your husband. Been there. It hurts. But ABSOLUTELY YTA for cancelling dinner for EVERYONE??!! Wtf? Grow up! You ruined Christmas and you need to get out there and apologize to an entire family. If you're gonna be petty, you should've opened that candle in front of his family and started tearing up and excuse yourself until someone came to check on you.  You should've waited for someone to b-word at your husband FOR you. That wouldve made him the petty selfish one, not you.  (2)

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Why would the box with 'The Warlords' gift be under the tree?ETA: For everyone who keeps explaining why they keep non-family presents under the tree, none of you are explaining why a present for an online friend would be kept under the tree instead of posted to them directly. (7962)

That's not the only thing too. A blown up phone with everyone in his entire family telling her she's selfish and just being completely obsessed with her as if they don't have anything better to spend their time on. At Christmas Eve at all times. Secret Santa with names on the tags so it's not anonymous. Plus a $100 requirement "Hosting Christmas dinner every year for his family" even though they've only been married for 3 years.Last but not least is glazing a ham all day. What in the goddarn frick, nobody does that to a ham all day long. OP needs writing lessons. And someone to tell them to never, ever do any kind of elaborate crime. They will be caught within minutes with all the holes and arrogant stupidity throughout their obvious fake story. (545)

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autodrama: automating away the jobs of dramneurodivergents. Ping HeyMoon if there are any problems or you have a suggestion

A few choice ones if you don't want to wade through all of them:

@arsey I know you were interested in the earlier Destiny leaks, hope you enjoy these

WARNING: EXTREMELY BORING AND PERSONAL BLOGPOST AHEAD, I HIGHLY SUGGEST YOU DO NOT READ IT UNLESS YOU'RE A OR MY FRIEND. THANK YOU.

i debated whether or not to make this post but ultimately decided i should lay out my reasons for (attempting) to quit using the site again, if only to get one last good dose of attention, maybe get some finality, and exist as a cautionary tale. this is not a "frick you userbase" post or insistence for the administration to do anything about the sites content or userbase, simply my logic for why i think i personally should stop using it. i would also generally advise other trans people to avoid the site as well but i know plenty of people who do get something out of reading chud shitholes (seriously i see so many ovarit/kf screenshots on tttt reddit its insane).

anyway i have the big depression. i'm not the most suicidal i've ever been and i'm not considering self harm but i would describe my mental state as seriously fricked up bros. this means more bedrotting, more binge eating, more lapses in executive function, more isolation. i've also for the first time in my short 27 year timespan on this earth actually dug more into these feelings and analyzed them, though this has not lead to any great understanding or an "a-ha" moment on my part. at best it's made me relate more to the stereotypical descriptions of depression and dysphoria. i'm not gonna go too deep into that because its embarrassing tbh. in the past i haven't really considered rdrama to be a major factor in this. a contributor to be sure but i always thought i got more out of it than it took for me. maybe that was delusion or maybe i was just better at tanking the damage in the past. maybe i just took enough and longer breaks and i was never cut out for using the site for an extended period of time. idk. here's some conjecture for why i think its particularly bad for me now:

1) half the country despises my existence and while this fact has always been true it hasn't been as relevant. this leads to me being inundated with a double dose of hatred shoved into my face, first when i see the news elsewhere and again when i browse rdrama. and yes i know nothing ever happens and im being hysterical and yadda yadda yadda. nobody can take my HRT away from me, diy exists. nobody (besides immigrants) is going to be put into camps, things will get better it'll just take time. doesn't mean it's not scary. should i be scared boymoding in a red state? probably not but seeing a news article about kim reynolds trying to legally declare me subhuman certainly isn't fricking helping me not be scared.

2) rdrama has just continued to go on a downward spiral? being someone who started using 4chan at age 12 in 2010 and was constantly called out for being a newstrag, i never really bought into "communities degrade over time" rhetoric. mainly because people are always saying shit is getting worse and i was either too dumb to recognize it or part of the problem myself in the past. but anyway. its definitely a thing with rdrama. a lot of users i liked or at least recognized as someone worth my time have been banned or left the site. and the people coming in to replace them are not the best and brightest. its just. i really really don't care if youre a chud. like yes seeing your ignorant opinions about certain topics does tend to make me flare up with angst, but i really try to not take it too seriously and just have a fun time. it just feels like people aren't coming here to have a fun time or shoot the shit about hobbies or do a little casual reddit trolling. it feels like they're coming here to make themselves and everyone around them miserable.

3) i have better social avenues elsewhere. i'm not talking about tttt because i don't think i'll ever feel like i fit in there, but i do have a friend now who i feel like is on a similar wavelength to me. and interacting with that person has made me realize i have so much more me to express than i am capable of doing on rdrama. its a rather dire comparison that has made me realize more and more how fricking stupid i am for putting up with this for so long. i said it the other day, lonely people tend to act deranged, and it turns out having your sole social outlet be a website full of people that hate you is pretty fricking deranged. being surrounded by people that hate me has been my modus operandi for a long time (much longer than i've been on rdrama), and only now am i realizing how fricked up that is. i'm not conceited enough to say i'm finally growing up, but i do think this time is a little bit different. idk we'll see i guess lmao

thats that. i'll respond to comments here but after that im outie 5k, gonna log out everywhere and scramble my password again. i once again do not know how to end this post

!cuteandvalid

KOREAN WOMEN ARE OFFICIALLY WHITE!

Due to their sacrifices and efforts in destroying the scrote menace with the 4B Movement, I have declared Korean women to be an honorary member of the White Woman Council. To make room, I have eliminated Italian women , whose membership was already on shaky grounds.

행복한 백인 여성의 수요일! // 𝙺𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚖𝚎𝚗!

Previous White Woman Wednesdays:

2025 Edition

Christmas 2024 Edition

The Trump 2024 Edition

Christmas 2023 Edition

We're back Edition

Greek Towelboy Edition

Trad Wife Edition

Pumpkin Spice Edition

Red Scare Edition

Anglo-Saxon Edition

Dirndl Edition

9/11 Edition

Since I will not be completely ignoring the following poll!

Korean women are White - 41 votes

Korean women are NOT White - 63 votes

I just started watching but it's obvious to anyone. I wasn't even trying to find faults. So for example on the boxart of the rerelease of moana 1 or in the actual movie she looks like this:

However in Moana 2 her hair looks like it hasn't been cleaned, less soft, her eyes are more far apart like half a centimeter like her voice actor actually looks.

I think she's actually fatter too but it's all so subtle. The funny part is this is obviously DEI, there's no reason to change the models of the characters so much. Almost all the characters look more realistic and less cartoony and cute. This is super strange as normally you'd want the models to be more consistent. Also everyone's hair has less pieces to it, seeming more clumpy, meaning less render time. She also radiates more girl boss energy and the expressions are less cute. So she just has that wierd/b-word intentionally cringe face in some scenes.

Movie is fine other than it pissing on my autism and noticing powers.

Isolating U.S. companies from cartel activities could be almost impossible given that the criminal groups operate in sectors like agriculture and tourism, leaving some American businesses vulnerable to sanctions.

>Offerings of flowers, candles, photos and dollar bills at a shrine to Jesús Malverde, a "narco-saint," in Culiacán, Mexico, the stronghold of the Sinaloa cartel. ^{Credit: Meridith Kohut for The New York Times<s/up>}

President Trump's executive order designating Mexican cartels and other criminal organizations as foreign terrorists could force some American companies to forgo doing business in Mexico rather than risk U.S. sanctions, according to former government officials and analysts — an outcome that could have a major effect on both countries given their deep economic interdependence.

The executive order, which Mr. Trump signed on Monday, is intended to apply maximum pressure on Mexico to rein in its dangerous drug trade. The designation, more generally, also gives his administration more power to impose economic penalties and travel restrictions, and potentially even to take military action in foreign countries.

Yet, disentangling cartel operations from U.S. interests in Mexico could be immensely complicated. Mexico is the United States' largest trade partner of goods, and many American companies have manufacturing operations there.

Even more complicated, these criminal networks have extended their operations far beyond drug trafficking and human smuggling. They are now embedded in a wide swath of the legal economy, from avocado farming to the country's billion-dollar tourism industry, making it hard to be absolutely sure that American companies are isolated from cartel activities.

"This has come up in previous administrations across the political spectrum and from members of Congress who have wanted to do it," said Samantha Sultoon, a senior adviser on sanctions policy and threat finance in the Trump and Biden administrations.

"But no one has done it because they have looked at what the implications would be on trade, economic and financial relationships between Mexico and the United States," she added. "They have all come away thinking that such a designation would actually be super shortsighted and ill-considered, though prior administrations viewed the U.S.-Mexico relationship far differently than the incoming Trump administration appears to."

The foreign terrorist designation could lead to severe penalties — including substantial fines, asset seizures and criminal charges — on companies and individuals found to be paying ransom or extortion payments. U.S. companies could also be ensnared by standard payments made to Mexican companies that a cartel controls without the American companies' knowledge.

Some extortion payments, even if made under duress, could be considered "material support" to cartels, said Pablo Zárate, senior managing director at FTI Consulting, an American firm that released a report laying out some of the risks of the terrorist designation.

Former U.S. officials and analysts pointed out that it would be nearly impossible to identify which business may employ or be affiliated with cartel members given the tens of thousands of people involved and operating in various industries, including the hotel and agriculture sectors. Cartels use the legal economy to launder money, which could mean that unwitting employees working at a resort or an avocado packing company could technically be on the cartel payroll but not know it.

As a result, companies in the risk-averse American financial sector may simply refuse to wire money to a Mexican factory, for example, to facilitate cross-border production and trade, or to wire money between personal accounts.

"Banks may turn away customers, because they may not think they are worth the risk if they have links to Mexico," said Eric Jacobstein, a former State Department official in the Biden administration.

Banks could ultimately decide to avoid entire sectors perceived as high risk, said Fabian Teichmann, a Swiss lawyer and expert on terrorist financing. Mr. Teichmann singled out Mexico's avocado trade, where cartels have drastically expanded their operations, as one area that could come under greater scrutiny.

"Banks might say, 'We don't want to be anywhere close to those who are considered to be terrorists, so we want to avoid that risk,'" Mr. Teichmann said. "From a banking perspective, that will be a very reasonable decision."

Other types of financial institutions that facilitate payments between the United States and Mexico could also be affected, such as Venmo or PayPal, which Mr. Trump's close confidant Elon Musk helped found.

The terrorist label could also push big parts of Mexico's economy further into the shadows, where cash is used instead of electronically traceable transactions, making it harder for investigators to examine the cartels' financial structures, Mr. Teichmann said.

"If people can't bank legitimately, they escape to so-called underground banking systems," Mr. Teichmann said.

In 2024, the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico surveyed 218 companies and found that 12 percent of respondents said that "organized crime has taken partial control of the sales, distribution and/or pricing of their goods."

The multinational banana producer Chiquita Brands was found liable in 2024 for killings by a Colombian right-wing paramilitary group that was designated as a terrorist organization. Chiquita Brands said that it had been extorted by the paramilitary group and forced to make payments to protect its Colombian employees. Plaintiffs, however, argued that the company had paid the paramilitary group to run out residents to buy land at depressed values.

The terrorist designation would also hurt American companies that are firmly north of the border but rely on Mexican labor. The designation is so broad and vague that ranches in Texas or farms in California could be swept up by the penalties if their employees send remittances to family members in Mexico who are involved in organized crime.

If money transfer companies like Western Union also stop transactions to Mexico over worries about properly vetting Mexican clients, it could affect the remittances the country relies on. That would be devastating for the Mexican economy, which received $63.3 billion in remittances in 2023, nearly 5 percent of the country's gross domestic product.

waow

The foreign terrorist designation could also pave the way for the United States to deploy forces inside Mexico against criminal organizations without the Mexican government's consent, as it did in Afghanistan and Syria.

But Afghanistan was occupied by the United States, and Syria's government lost control over much of its territory in recent years. That gave Washington some cover under international law for the American military to deploy troops and launch special-forces operations to kill or capture terrorist leaders in those countries.

Mexico, however, has built up cooperation with the United States for over 30 years to counter the cartels. Mexico could threaten to halt cooperation if the United States is seen to be violating Mexico's sovereignty. When the U.S. federal prosecutors office arrested Mexico's former defense secretary during Mr. Trump's first administration, the Mexican government halted all cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

"Unilateral action would be catastrophic," said Craig Deare, a former U.S. military attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico in the 1990s.

>A fentanyl cook for the Sinaloa cartel at work last month

>A fentanyl cook for the Sinaloa cartel at work last month

>A fentanyl cook for the Sinaloa cartel at work last month

>Meridith Kohut for The New York Times

"It would dismantle any collaboration and decades of Republican and Democratic efforts to build a defense relationship with Mexico," he said, adding, "If you don't like cooperation now, wait until Mexico cuts all ties."

On Tuesday, President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico issued a stern warning to Mr. Trump during her daily news conference. "We will always defend our sovereignty," Ms. Sheinbaum said. "We all want to fight the drug cartels, that is obvious. So what should we do? We have to coordinate efforts; we have to collaborate," she said.

"May they know that the president of the republic will always defend Mexico above all else," the Mexican president added.

A correction was made on Jan. 22, 2025: An earlier version of this article misidentified the organization that conducted a survey of 218 companies. It was the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico, not the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

I resigned from xAI tonight.
It makes me very sad, but was the right thing to do -- and here's why.

xAI told me I either had to delete the post quoted below, or face being fired.

After reviewing everything and thinking a lot, I've decided that I'm not going to delete the post… https://t.co/8egdL0c8gc

— Benjamin De Kraker (@BenjaminDEKR) February 12, 2025

🚨 #BREAKING - RAW 60 MINUTES INTERVIEW with Kamala Harris during the election released... TRANSCRIPT in reply... pic.twitter.com/dYneIEPqQu

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 5, 2025

I found a peepee while out mini golfing today

YEEZY DOES NOT HIRE FAT OR UGLY PEOPLE pic.twitter.com/HnmwiC0b66

— ye (@kanyewest) February 8, 2025

Take it for what it's worth, but have some personal knowledge from a good friend that a fairly large collector of alpha and beta magic lost their entire collection of magic in the fires currently ongoing in California. I honestly don't know the extent of the collection, but at least they were able to escape with their lives and their pets as well.

What kind of special r-slur/neurodivergent decides it's a good idea to go to Reddit and post something like this unironically?

Was it one of you?

this clip of a VICE journalist discovering how unhinged some Egyptian secular nationalists are always cracks me up pic.twitter.com/EoDW2JetJW

— Suhaib Zaino | صُهَيْب زينو (@suhaib_zaino) January 10, 2025

Yes I know I said I would post the Maureen Sabiski thread but I'm sick as frick and lazy and also my computer is blue-balling me. Sorry!

!codecels !burgers

3 main points of contention are:

• Marvel/millennial writing

This trailer didn't win any favors because all I saw was "Marvel quirky writing in generic space setting".

I really didn't get that impression. "Marvel writing" is quickly becoming a meaningless term.

one liners, jokes, and sarcasm every other line of dialogue is what people mean by marvel writing

millennial writing, im good

• Excessive amount of product placement, which kills the game for no fun chuds and makes it better and more immersive to soylennials. Also media literacy or something

Sony record player? Porsche spaceship? Addias shoes? Fricking DXRacer gaming cockpit chair? What was with all of the absurdly distracting product placement

Kids, they did that because the style is 80S RETRO FUTURISM.

this whole subreddit is wooshing so hard on the aesthetic of the game

That has literally nothing to do with the point he's making. They could use fake brands and achieve the same aesthetic.

No, you couldn't have. Because those of us who saw it immediately, saw it BECAUSE of the very visible brand placement. Some of you are just to young to have actually gotten it.

I hate the brands in real life just as much.

Wow, so edgy.

Sounds exhausting.

It's creating a more relatable alternate reality that captures a vibe that we can sort of intuitively know and feel based on our real experiences with known brands

It kinda gives you the tone of the character imo. Like if Porsche is making space ships in this alternate timeline, it sort of informs us about the character a bit. It's not a junker rebel ship- it's badass, high-performance, and perhaps ostentatious and egotistical even.

Why were 3 massive brands planted so obviously in the trailer? Porsche, Adidas, Sony?

Obvious 90s inspired retro futurism aesthetic. How are people not seeing this??

G*mers have some of the worst media literacy of anyone on the internet, are you really surprised?

I can already see people freaking out about this online, when it's such an obvious artistic direction.

Sony has such a fricking hardon for themselves with the product placement in their movies, now games too?

I can't wait to play as a bald woman with my adidas shoes, my sony record player, my porsche spaceship. Wow! Thanks for the ultimate marketing game!

• That last comment brings us to most discussed part of the trailer - is having a tattooed, bald Black woman protagonist (and a character with an eye patch) woke Sweet Baby globohomo propaganda or are they just strong, diverse and inclusive characters that enrich the players' experience?

Looks like a cool setting and concept. But why... why do I gotta play as a bald chick? I'll play the game if it's got a good story and gameplay but i wish it didn't have to be... that. Just let me create my own character

We wanted masculine character lead again. Naughty Dog gave us their best: A bald lesbian

I mean the main character looks expectedly like a Neil Druckmann design.

I remember when bald badass women were celebrated. I see people pooping on the character and I just don't get it. She's has an obvious feminine build she's just bald lol.

Female, Asian, black, bald! The perfect combination ❤️ (can't tell if this is a or a lmao)

I immediately said "Naughty Dog" once I saw the bald and tattooed female protagonist

Oh man it features a non-feminine looking, woman of colour protagonist, the people who still vomit hate about TLOU2 and Neil Druckmann to this day are going to absolutely lose their minds.

Also, a truke at the end

TLoU2 and TLoU gameplay loops are honestly really boring. The only reason I made it through TLoU was because of the story. The gameplay loop of move from cover to cover throwing rocks and assassinating people gets really boring really quickly.

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Deputy Anna Skorokhod stated that Zelensky's real support rating in Ukraine fluctuates between 6% and 9%.
- FRWL pic.twitter.com/iEGX5yDcGG

— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) February 23, 2025

Fоíd jоurnоíd sауs: Zеļеnskуу just рubļíshеd thаt 57% suрроřts hím nоt 3%

Fоíd gоv: ín vеrhоvnо rаdа (Раrļíаmеnt) оnļу 9% suрроrts hím

@duck wе nоw gоt аnswеr whу hе dоеsnt аsk раrļíаmеnt tо еļесt hím

Gеníus аļsо tоļd hе dоеsnt рļаn tо bе fоřеvеř рřеsídеnt аnd wоuļd ļеаvе íf Ukřаínе ís ассерtеd tо nаtо, říght nоw. Hе ís mr оxуmоřоn

@Brevis-Claus

!coons