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my boss made me verify that I’m really exercising
**my boss made me verify that I’m really exercising** **Originally posted to Ask A Manager** **TRIGGER WARNING:** >!Body shaming, Hostile workplace!< [Original Post](https://www.askamanager.org/2025/06/my-boss-made-me-verify-that-im-really-exercising.html) **June 23, 2025** My office has an exercise leave program that allows us to stack our two 15-minute breaks to leave early, arrive late, or use the time midday for exercise. This benefit may be used three times per week, and may be combined with our flexible schedule and lunch break to allow for longer midday exercise periods. We complete an annual form, signed by the employee, our boss, and our one-person HR department. I am a woman on the larger end of the mid-sized range who works out five days a week at barre/Pilates classes, two to three times a week using exercise leave (generally by leaving half an hour early). As of this morning, our executive director (my manager’s boss) states I have to provide verification of every single class I attend from now on and from the past four months. According to his email, he doubts I’ve “used the program appropriately as there is no improvement in your appearance.” Neither my boss nor HR were included in the email, which I have forwarded to my personal email address. He gave me until close of business Friday to submit evidence. This is the first time I’ve been asked to verify my attendance at my exercise classes. My relationship with my manager is characterized by a high level of mutual trust. I have been here four years and have had no performance issues, including attendance problems, in that time; I have four years of excellent annual and quarterly reviews to back this up. When we all completed our exercise program forms at our recent all staff meeting, our boss even noted that she’s never had to ask for verification. Thankfully, I have my studio membership receipt and the studio manager was kind enough to run a software report of my electronic sign-ins for the past six months. Though I can verify I have not misused the program, I am disturbed by his email and wonder what advice you have for addressing the fact that his request is based on my size and appearance, and not my work performance. [Update](https://www.askamanager.org/2025/12/update-my-boss-made-me-verify-that-im-really-exercising.html) **Dec 1, 2025** I appreciated the validation offered by you and your readers, and apologize I couldn’t be available when it was posted for replies. The executive director’s deadline for my “proof” was just a couple days after I reached out to you, so I had to take action before you had a chance to publish your reply. I thought about replying to the email from my executive director with the verification documents and including my manager and HR. Because of the specter of sexual harassment (nothing easily actionable, but I think we all know it was there) I instead rang a local employment attorney and visited him for a consultation the next day. He advised forwarding the email to my manager and HR without the executive director included, and provided language quite similar to that you suggested, with the addition of asking if management of the exercise program has shifted to the executive director. He also advised to ask for responses via email. I did as he suggested. My manager was upset and HR surprised. They came to my office together and assured me management had not shifted to him, that basing the request on my appearance was inappropriate, and that it would not happen again. I sent an email recap to them, and they replied confirming that is how they recalled the meeting. That was the end of it, until last month. At our fall all-staff quarterly meeting, the director announced he made the decision to terminate the exercise program with immediate effect. As you ended your reply to my initial letter: he is an ass. **THIS IS A REPOST SUB - I AM NOT THE OOP** **DO NOT CONTACT THE OOP's OR COMMENT ON LINKED POSTS, REMEMBER - RULE 7**
AITA for preventing my husband from taking in his nephews?
**I am NOT the Original Poster. That is** [Mountain-Shadow-769](https://www.reddit.com/user/Mountain-Shadow-769/). She posted in r/AITAH and r/legaladvice Thanks to u/BakingGiraffeBakes for the rec! # Do NOT comment on Original Posts. Latest update is 7 days old. This has not been posted here before. Do NOT message the Original Poster. Read Trigger Warnings. **Trigger Warning:** >!murder and suicide; MS; childhood trauma; child abuse;!< **Mood Spoiler:** >!really fucking sad!< **Original** [Post](https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comments/1owffg7/aita_for_preventing_my_husband_from_taking_in_his/)**: November 13, 2025** My husband (32M) and I (28F) have been married for 2 years and together for 5. Until now, I would have said that we had the perfect relationship, but right now it seems like that’s over and I’m not sure who the AH is if anyone. I grew up in a really bad abusive and neglectful situation. I’ve been to therapy and done the work but there are still some issues that are just going to be permanent, I think. The two relevant here are that I need to have a calm, safe living space that is mine to function and I do not do well around children. I don’t hate children but I was forced into raising 7 siblings and step siblings when I was still a kid myself and I will never be responsible for another kid for as long as I live. I’ve had my tubes removed to make absolutely sure there will never be an oops. My husband has known this since the beginning and also does not want children. His family situation is also not great, but he’s still involved with them mostly for his mom and nephews’ sake. About a month ago, SIL was murdered by her ex, who unalived himself as well. The boys were visiting MIL so thankfully they weren’t in the house when it happened otherwise I think they would be gone, too. It’s horrific. MIL, the boys, and my husband are devastated. SIL was not my favorite person in the world, she had a lot of the same traits my abusers had, but nobody deserves that and I’m trying to be supportive of their grief. The problem is that there’s nowhere for the boys to go. They were staying with MIL, but her health is so poor that DHR decided that she’s not stable enough to have custody. Their father’s family doesn’t have anything to do with them (which is a long story by itself). My husband has a younger brother, but he has substance use issues and isn’t in a good place to take on two kids. That leaves my husband and me as the only real family placement option. My husband isn’t thrilled about bringing kids into the situation, but he feels like he has to keep them out of foster care, which I understand. Here’s the problem. I absolutely do not want these kids living under the same roof as me. It’s a PTSD trigger, but also they are understandably for their situation not the best behaved kids to start with. Add some hella trauma onto that and those kids are going to need a lot of help. My husband swears that he will do everything for them, but I think he’s being unrealistic. We got into a really nasty argument about it and he said that this is a make or break moment for the marriage because he’s not backing down and he’ll take the kids and divorce me if he has to. Our house was mine before we got married, I inherited it from my grandmother. I insisted on a prenup to protect it when we got married. My husband has a health issue that makes full time work difficult and he struggled at the best of times before we got married. If we split up, his chances of finding an affordable place to live nearby in the current market are not good. He’s not quite disabled enough to receive disability. Frankly, if I and the house weren’t part of the bargain, I’m not sure that DHR would place the kids with him. Where I might be the AH is that after he threw the D word at me I told him that in that case he would need to move out of my house because he would no longer be welcome, go back to working full time because I wouldn’t be bank rolling an ex, and good luck taking care of two traumatized kids with his health, much lower income, and without a stable housing. I think it hadn’t occurred to him just how much he would lose access to, because we’ve always just shared without thinking about it. He’s not speaking to me right now and MIL called and read me the riot act for “financial abuse” and abandoning family. I feel for the nephews, I really do, but I am not the person those kids need right now and I feel like I was really clear from the very beginning that I would never be ok taking care of kids or living with them. I think we’re cooked either way at this point, but AITA? ***Some of OOP's Comments:*** **sunsettrekkie:** NTA. The whole thing sucks and is very sad. You knew your limitations and made them clear to others. You can’t be expected to move out of your own house. Could your husband move in with MIL? Would her insurance cover some home care, or compensate your husband for her care? >**OOP:** I’m looking into that actually because even if we split up I don’t want him to suffer. The problem is that a lot of welfare and social services have been cut and he’s one of the people that falls into the cracks of not being eligible for a lot of stuff that could help but not physically able to handle a full time job that would give him decent benefits. I have a social worker friend that I asked to look into what additional benefits they might be able to get and whether it would hurt MIL’s benefits if my husband were living with her. It’s terrible that people have to make these kinds of choices. *Husband's disability:* >He has an autoimmune condition that can get pretty bad when it flares up and he has chronic pain from it. He works contracts part time from home so that he can pace himself and rest because when it kicks up he genuinely can’t do anything even with meds. It’s controlled as well as it can be. His mom has the same thing just way more advanced. He does his best and things work well with just the two of us, and he was getting by before we moved in together, but I really don’t think he could handle the kids and take care of himself. **Loose-Chemical-4982:** If they won't give his mom custody because she has the same health condition, what makes him so certain they are going to give him custody? >**OOP:** Denial. The only reason we’re considered a good option is because I have a stable home, income, and am able-bodied. This is a rural area with a long run of generational poverty and both of our families are prime examples of what happens to people in that environment. There is no way that my husband would be able to care for those kids during one of his flare ups, they’re only going to get worse and more frequent over time barring new treatments and MIL should really be in assisted living. The way I see this going is we split up and he moves into his mom’s trailer, they still don’t pass muster with DHR, the kids go into foster care anyway, and everyone’s life is worse for nothing. If they were in foster care and MIL and my husband had visitation, we could keep an eye on them to make sure they’re not being abused while we try to figure out a better long term solution. Instead, it looks like we’re just going to trash everything. *OOP about foster care/several downvoted comments (included because her answer was extensive):* >There are no avenues for the kids that won’t inflict more trauma period. Foster care isn’t the worst that can happen. I begged to be taken away when I was their age. The kids have two uncles and a grandmother who can’t provide actual care for them. What happens when my husband has a severe flare up and he’s bedridden for days? What happens when his meds stop working and he’s in pain and unable to function until they figure out something else? Being exposed to that will also traumatize kids. He or MIL could develop fatal complications at any time and then who’s stuck with the kids? As for me, I did a ton of therapy and meds and this is as good as it gets. Some things cannot be unbroken no matter how much you want them to be. People need to understand that in the real world trauma is sometimes a permanent injury and recovery is learning to live with it instead of damaging yourself further. My husband knew since our second date that there were never any conditions in which I would ever agree to have a child in my home or under my care. No exceptions, full stop. He made the decision to marry me knowing that was an immovable boundary. If he thought there was a chance he would ever need to take in his nephews, I feel like he was the one who needed to walk away. I don’t mind taking care of him when he needs it and I’ve been more of a rock for him than anyone else in his life. I can’t stop him if he wants to jump off the rock and go drown, but the rock isn’t going to follow him. *Kids' paternal family:* >It was the boys’ father that did the murder so he’s out of the picture. The short version is that he was cheating on his wife with SIL and it blew up on them eventually. Wife made him choose and he chose her. From what SIL said his family refuses to believe they’re his and told SIL to kick rocks when she approached them. **wordsmythy:** What did she approach them for? >**OOP:** She said she just wanted them to know their grandparents and family, but honestly who knows what else SIL might have asked for. I took most of what she said with a chunk of rock salt. *Survivor benefits:* >Unfortunately SIL never had an above the table job for very long and I don’t think the boys’ father was ever legally established as their parent, he was married to someone else the whole time and was giving SIL money without a court agreement or paper trail. He had a wife and other kids so it’s going to take some time for legal stuff to be figured out. That situation is a whole saga by itself. **Editor's note:** OOP has some pretty graphic descriptions of what to her in her childhood and in foster care. I'm not including them in the post, but if you want to read the thread you can do so [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comments/1owffg7/comment/noukhx5/?context=3). You'll have to expand the comments because she's replying to downvoted ones. **Edit 1: Sometime in the next 24 hours** Edit: There are a lot of responses and I’m trying to get to them all. I’m taking a PTO day to deal with some of this stuff and get myself back together. As a lot of you have said, there’s no way back from this and I think I’m going to go ahead and accept that now instead of dragging it out. The trust is gone. I made an appointment with a lawyer this morning and from what I’ve read an uncontested divorce could go pretty quickly and smoothly if we don’t squabble over money. I don’t have any interest in screwing him over, but I also won’t be screwed over. I hate it, I wish this wasn’t happening, but I’ve worked way too hard for a stable life to flush it down the toilet. I’m going to freeze my credit and lock down the accounts today in case he or MIL get ideas, and have the talk tonight. I’m also about to call the case manager contact at DHR and explain the situation so it’s on record and they can start making a plan that doesn’t include me as a part of the equation. I’m debating how much help I’m going to continue providing. I will continue to help my husband while he lives here, but I was also doing a lot to help out MIL with things her health makes difficult and to allow her to put her energy towards the kids right now, and I think that’s going to stop since it’s not appreciated and the relationship is over. As far as the whole looking after family thing, I don’t believe in family. Family has done more harm to me than anything else in this world and provided not a single benefit, so I don’t put any value on blood or relations. I do what I can when I can for others, but I know in the same circumstance, none of these people would help me, either because they can’t or they just wouldn’t care that much. So just spare me the whole “they’re your family” stuff, please, that word doesn’t hit the same way for me that it does for you. I will update once I’ve talked to my husband and figured out a path forward. Thanks for the input even if some of you think I’m a monster. **Edit 2: November 15, 2025 (2 days later)** Edt2: Well that was a rough night. TLDR; Now he doesn’t want to divorce and wants to figure something out. Of course. The stress of the whole situation is pushing him into a flare so I’m giving him some grace but I told him that we won’t go back to exactly the way things were before the D word now no matter what happens. I don’t trust him. He needs to sit down with the social worker, look at the facts, and make a call on his own. I have the lawyer’s recommendations for an amicable divorce filing we can discuss if he decides on that route. His mom said some unforgivable things in her little tirade so the things I was doing to help her stop. Whatever happens I will make sure he has health insurance until he can make other arrangements. I would be willing to discuss all of this in counseling with him while we try to sort it out, but for now, one of us is moving into the spare room or he can go stay with his mom. He’s upset, but agreed. It’s probably going to take some time to get a resolution but I will try to post again down the road once the situation settles out. **Side** [Post](http://reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1oznw07/setting_up_a_rental_agreement_with_an_ex_partner/)**: November 17, 2025 (2 days later, 4 from OG post)** **Title:** Setting up a rental agreement with an ex partner, is this a good idea? \[Legal Advice\] Location: Alabama I’m doing some preemptive option shopping to resolve a difficult situation. My spouse and I are headed for a divorce. He plans to take in his two nephews who have been recently orphaned. In order to do that, he has to have an acceptable living situation. He is disabled (but doesn’t qualify for disability) and doesn’t work full time so rent would be tricky. While there are resources to help with some stuff, housing is going to be the main issue out of the gate. The house is mine from before the marriage and protected by a prenup. According to the SW case manager, public housing is wait listed right now. Other family are unable to help. I have an idea that might be feasible if not the most convenient. My job always has openings for 6 month on-base postings. If I took one of those, I would be out of the house during that time. My soon to be ex could stay in the house with the kids while I’m gone, but I want to ensure that they would be out before I returned. I assume there would need to be a formal renter agreement (I don’t actually want to charge him any rent or as low as it’s possible to be) to stipulate the terms and spell out what happens if there are damages. I am concerned about having to evict them if they haven’t found anywhere else by the time I return from that posting. Is this a viable plan and what should I be looking at to protect my interests? I’m not as knowledgeable about tenant law and I don’t want generosity to be taken advantage of. **Mini Update in** [Comments](https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comments/1owffg7/comment/npr3ir3/?context=3)**: November 19, 2025 (2 days later, 6 from OG post)** *In response to a comment asking what happened when OOP told the case manager to take her house and assets out of the equation, how MIL is and what husband is doing:* CM \[case manager\] said that was good to know. I made it clear that I would be willing to help him get set up elsewhere to a reasonable degree so there was a smooth transition and she said they would factor that in. At last report, he and his mom have an appointment with her on Friday and I hope they work it out. I was heavily supplementing MIL on groceries especially since the kids have been there, her electricity bill, and one of her prescriptions that’s uncovered. I was also running errands and would do things like mow the grass and some outside work on my off shift week. Neither of them can spend a lot of time in direct sunlight. SO told her that I’m cutting contact with her and she will have to make other arrangements. The prescription isn’t life-sustaining and I just picked up a month supply for her before the argument so she has time to get her doc to switch her to something else or get a patient assistance case underway with the manufacturer. With winter incoming, there shouldn’t be a lot to do outside and she can afford the rest, just not as comfortably. I sent food for the kids with SO so they’re not immediately impacted and they have SNAP, which is rolling again. I asked my SO to keep her response to himself, so I don’t know how she took it and I really don’t care. I really don’t know what’s going on with him at this point. I understand that scared people lash out, been there done that, and I don’t know if he tossed divorce out there as a conscious manipulation tactic or an unconscious one. Either way, he knows that’s a Thing for me. I don’t let people into my life quickly or easily and I don’t chase people, so the few people who are in are in because I trust them implicitly. He pressed the nuclear button and the missile has launched. He doesn’t want to divorce now and is distraught, but I don’t trust him now. He could be sincere, he could be manipulating because he’s afraid of losing out. I’m not sure it matters, because even though I love him I think he broke the part of me that was in love with him. Not sure that’s coming back. **Update** [Post](https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comments/1pbejhj/update_aita_for_preventing_husband_from_taking_in/)**: December 1, 2025 (18 days from OG post)** People have been asking me for an update and there were some forward developments before Thanksgiving. \[removed TLDR of previous post\] The bad news is that DHR \[department of human resources in Alabama\] decided my SO’s medical situation rules him out as a primary guardian for the kids. He wouldn’t be able to adequately care for them during a flare. Same for his mom (they have the same condition, his is worse than hers, but hers is more advanced). The good news is that the social worker talked the paternal relatives into agreeing to a DNA test. They didn’t believe that the kids were really Murderous AH’s bio children and he and SIL were keeping the situation on the down low because he was married so they never established legal paternity. DNA was a match, so the grandparents on that side are taking the kids. What that means as far as visitation for my SO and MIL is still being hashed out, but the whole thing has been deescalated a lot thanks to a really competent case manager. As far as the divorce, I’m going ahead with it and filing this week. He’s moved back in with his mom. They’re salty about it, but that’s to be expected. I still love him and wish him the best, but I’m done. His family is too much drama and I don’t trust him the way that I did before this. Given that we were only married 2 years and the house is mine from before the marriage and protected, it should be a clean break. While I miss him being here, I’m already feeling less stressed with him gone and I didn’t realize that had been creeping up on me for a while. I think I’m done with romantic relationships, at least for a good long while, so I’m going to focus on my career and some fun stuff I haven’t had time to do since taking on a caretaker role. Thank you to those that offered support and advice. It sucks that any of this happened to begin with, but I think it’s ending about as well as it could have at this point. I will be dropping contact with my ex’s family so I doubt I’ll have anything else to update. ***Some of OOP's Comments:*** *What condition ex and mom have:* >They have MS and myasthenia gravis. He has the childhood onset variant so his is a lot more debilitating, but his mom’s has progressed more. It’s managed as well as it can be, but I still wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. *OOP responds to a downvoted commenter:* >I wasn’t tired of being his caregiver. I knew the score when we got married and accepted it. Things between us worked well, he did his best to be an equal partner and I did my best. We would still be married if he had accepted no as an answer instead of threatening divorce to get his way. Where the stress was coming from was mostly his family being a disaster. I took on a lot of things because it would remove stress from him and less stress meant he would have a longer and more able life. Now that I don’t have to take into account a bunch of fragile, emotionally unstable in-laws, I have more time and feel less stressed myself. Had none of this happened, we may have gotten to the point where cutting some people off and setting stronger boundaries was necessary, but I loved my ex and he wasn’t a burden by himself. Disabled people are capable of being good partners, it just takes good problem-solving skills and understanding of each other’s needs and capabilities from everyone involved. The problem was that he evidently couldn’t respect mine the same way I respected his. *SIL:* >To be fair, I think that SIL was seriously mentally ill. Her behavior was similar to untreated bipolar disorder and postpartum stuff really didn’t help that any. The kids should have been put up for adoption, between her and the father they never had a chance. At least with paternity established and the secrets out maybe they can have a relationship with their half-siblings and other relatives now and get appropriate attention and help. *This sucks all around for the kids and some questions about the ex:* >Yeah, I want good things for the kids, too, it’s just awful that they’ve had to go through it and life wasn’t great for them even before this. I do get the sense that their bio father’s family is more stable and financially able to get them what they need despite what their AH son did, and this way they have a chance at a relationship with their half-siblings while they’re young. The thing that gets me about my ex is that he knows relationships are something I take really seriously. If you’re one of my people, I had to go through a whole lot of effort and trust building to get there so you’re something special to me. It boggles my mind that he could know that about me, throw out the D word, and then expect to walk it back. He has a few things to come collect when he finds storage for them, but after that I’ve told him that I need space and to contact the lawyer instead of me. Probably going to change my phone number anyway. His mom likes to leave angry VMs when she’s got a bee in her bonnet. *One more thought from OOP:* >From my perspective, it’s understandable that he would want to help his nephews. Heck, I want his nephews to end up somewhere safe. I just know that’s not with me. I don’t think this had to be a make or break moment personally and forcing it to one was reallypoor judgment. To illustrate, I’m an EMS pilot. I get the final say on whether it’s safe to fly. If I choose to fly when it’s not safe, the risk of death for myself, my crew, the transports, and anyone we crash on is high. If I decide not to fly, sometimes the patient dies. That’s just the realistic calculus of the situation. If the most beloved person in my life was dying and needed an airlift but there’s a lightning storm going on, I’m going to feel terrible and gutted about it but we’re still not going to fly because that would be insane. My ex made his hill to die on the equivalent of pressuring me to take a highly risky flight that could end very badly for everyone involved. He’s not even the pilot because he’s incapable of caring for the kids either way, he’s a bystander with no impact on the outcome asking other people to go on a suicide mission so he doesn’t have to feel bad. The feelings are understandable but to me, even being charitable and assuming he wasn’t trying to manipulate me, letting emotions actually trump reality in a genuine crisis instead of working with the parameters of the real situation is foolish and I can’t trust someone like that.
Oh my God, it’s real, how fucking embarrassing.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-this-game-of-thrones-blogger-made-his-way-into-the-white-house/ I might be late to the party here. Apparently it was the thing that was covered in 2017, but I never heard about it. It’s a truly high bar, but this might be the most pathetic thing about Jack Posobiec.
ABS stats show decline in youth crime across the country...
When there's an election, there's always a "crisis" for these pollies to put their cape on over image: ABS stats as presented by The Conversation. (This post isn't intended to dismiss the real harm caused by crimes. Two things can exist - we want to prevent unnecessary and senseless crime, AND, there is politically motivated panic to frame government in a positive light for people who do not understand that issues like youth crime transcend any one government and their interventions).
Vico Sotto announces that all gambling advertisements are now banned in Pasig City, covering billboards, signages, sponsorships, and any promotional materials from gambling companies
‘ANG DAMI KO NANG NAKITA NA NALULONG AT NASIRA ANG BUHAY SA ACTIVE-PLAY GAMBLING GAMES’ The new policy comes through Ordinance No. 26 s-2025, authored by Councilor Paul Senogat, and marks another decisive step in the city’s anti-gambling efforts. VicoSotto then recalls the broader context: in 2022, Pasig became the first LGU to ban both POGOs and e-gambling shops, even amid pressure and alleged bribery attempts during the passage of Ordinance No. 55 s-2022. He noted the many lives are damaged by active-play gambling and stresses that constant exposure to ads only pushes people back into harmful habits. He adds that gambling psychology is well-researched, hoping the ordinance faces no resistance. [Credits](https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=870011722217160&set=a.180793441138995)
What can the Government do to fix the worsening traffic problem in the Philippines?
Many people are forced to buy cars and motorcycles (like me) because mass transportation in the Philippines is poor, unreliable and uncomfortable. If the government invested in better public transport and scrapped low-effort, mediocre programs like the modern jeepney, many private car and motorcycle owners would choose to commute on clean, comfortable, and reliable transportation systems. Trillions are being stolen by corrupt government officials. Imagine if those stolen trillions were used here. We would have been benefiting from things like this a long time ago. We need to demand good things from the government because now we know the government is not poor. We know they have trillions of pesos of funds. They are just stealing and pretending there is no money even though there really is. **F\*CK THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT!!!!!!** EDIT: To the people saying it’s already too late to fix traffic, you’re wrong. It’s easier to renovate or improve an existing city than to build a new one that might not attract lots of residents and businesses. Also, Amsterdam in the 1970s had terrible traffic because they were car-centric back then. They stopped being car-centric and made the city people-centric, rebuilt it, and added tram lines, metro rail, dedicated bike lanes and wide sidewalks. South Korea did the same thing The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project from 2003 to 2005. They even had an elevated expressway before, but they removed it. If the Philippines copied what Amsterdam and South Korea did, our heavy traffic and public transport problems would be solved. # And please stop holding on to mediocre transportation like jeepneys. Try to raise your standards.
The woman that Guanzon fought with at Rockwell is a practicing lawyer.
According to Atty. Bueno, the wife of the 'Chinese' man is a lawyer who graduated from Ateneo, in her early 30s, and belongs to a prominent family of distinguished lawyers. [Rolex, & 'Put..ng Ina Mo': Curses Could Cost Rowena Guanzon Her Bar Privilege. #attybuenoexplains](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PtJRmDB53Y)
Ms. Rachel shares a video of a demolished Palestinian land
Over 76 years of Genocide that is done by the Israeli regime, this is what Palestine looks like currently. Over 100, 000 Palestinians murdered for centuries and people from other sides of the Arab world are also being punished, yet the Israeli regime never face any consequences. It’s heartbreaking to look at. Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR_JCKGDJ_b/?igsh=dThmNXdmaTBzOWg5
Aj & kylie
Honestly, people need to stop inserting themselves into AJ, Kylie, and Aljur’s personal lives. The actual people involved are obviously in good terms, and that alone should tell everyone that AJ wasn’t the cause of their breakup. What’s tiring is seeing strangers make accusations or act like they know the full story. The whole “AJ shouldn’t have entertained him because he’s married” take is such a simplified, outdated mindset. None of us know the real dynamics of their relationship, their agreements, or what they’ve already resolved privately. At the end of the day, it’s their lives. They’re the ones who lived through it, worked through it, and are clearly at peace with each other. Maybe it’s time the rest of us stop projecting, stop moralizing, and stop pretending we’re part of the situation. Let them handle their own relationships they already have.
What's going on with the new US National Security Strategy?
A new official National Security Strategy has been [published](https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf) by the White House and it says the EU is "dying" and calls to "cultivate resistance movements" in it, while saying very little in comparison about Russia or China. Quotes from the document: * "Our elites badly miscalculated America’s willingness to shoulder forever global burdens to which the American people saw no connection to the national interest" * "The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over" * "We will assert and enforce a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine" * "[Europe's] economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure" * "We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation." * "[America's goal is] cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations" Is the EU America's new enemy?
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Hver en kroner du bruger hos Tesla er anti EU!
Old people driving in the countryside
Every freaking time... But old people do vote, so yeah...
Don Jr. is awarded a $620m loan from the DoD, the largest in Pentagon history
> A start-up funded by a Donald Trump Jr.-backed venture capital firm has been awarded a $620 million contract from the Pentagon, reports the Financial Times. > Vulcan Elements, a small rare earths start-up, will receive the funds as part of a larger deal from the Defense Department. This $620 million loan is the largest made by the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital. > Vulcan is backed by the 1789 fund, where Trump Jr. sits on the board. Four of the companies in the 1789 fund’s portfolio have been awarded government contracts just this year, to the tune of more than $735 million overall, according to the FT. I just want to scream.
The comments on this post is disheartening and blood boiling.
The top comments, whose profiles arent locked, are mostly people telling the OP that they should "look at it from the mother's perspective", or that "OP answered their own question" (basically they're saying that they, the DDS, are smarter and more spiritually grounded 🤮 and that's why they still support the Dutertes). I do have to agree to an extent with some replies that say we (people who hate the Dutertes) can sometimes act like we're "holier than thou" and that only our side is the correct side. However, I think we can't exactly stop acting that way when these people refuse to acknowledge the wrongdoings of the politicians they support. Looking at the comments in posts like these makes me worried for 2028 and genuinely hope that something, anything, happens that prevents these ilk from winning.
Olen alkanut vihaamaan tekoälyä
Olen diplomi-insinöori ja käytän tekoälyä työssäni lähes päivittäin, koska se tehostaa työtahtiani. Olen kuitenkin alkanut vihaamaan tekoälyä. ChatGPT tuli kaikkien saataville kun maisteriopintojani oli jäljellä noin 1.5 vuotta, ja ei mennyt kuin muutama kuukausi niin kurssien sisällöt vaikeutuivat huomattavasti. Koska kaikki muutkin käyttivät tekoälyä selvitäkseen opinnoistaan, jouduin itsekin tekemään niin. Minusta tuntuu että en ole oppinut läheskään yhtä paljon maisterivaiheeni lopussa. Nyt töissä koodailen tekoälyä käyttäen, ja tuntuu että työn mielekkyys on kadonnut. Olen asiantuntijatehtävissä, mutta jos tekoäly lakkautettaisiin huomenna, työni tahti hidastuisi huomattavasti. Se mikä ennen vaati minulta kuukauden, onnistuu nykyään viikossa tai alle tekoälyn avulla. Tämä on luonnollisesti ansainnut minulle lisää työtä. Toki en ole "vibe coder" vaan luen ja ymmärrän tekoälyn kirjoittamaa koodia ja korjaan sitä tarvittaessa. Mutta nyt kun Gemini 3.0 on julkaistu, uskoni ihmiskunnan tulevaisuuteen on mennyttä. Lapsena mietin miksi Dune ja WH40K esitti tekoälyn aina jonkinlaisena hirviönä, ja jopa Mass Effectissä tekoäly oli kielletty. Nyt ymmärrän. Tekoäly turruttaa ihmisen ajatusjuoksun, mutta koska kaikki muutkin käyttävät sitä selvitäkseen nykyajan vaatimuksista, en voi kieltäytyä sen käytöstä. Mutta tämä ei tule tekemään hyvää ihmiskunnalle. Säälin alpha-sukupolvea joka tekee läksyt tekoälyllä. Olemme luoneet pommin joka tulee joko räjäyttämään maailmantalouden, tai johtaa Idioluution kaltaiseen tulevaisuuteen. Jos vihaat tekoälyä, et ole yksin. Kyseessä on yksi ihmiskunnan haitallisimmista keksinnöistä.
PSA - Roblox is not just a grooming website
I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about kids playing Roblox, usually followed by “but I have the friends list locked down” or “they can’t chat with strangers so it’s fine.” I want to raise a few points that rarely get discussed, coming from someone with almost 20 years in the game industry. Roblox isn’t dangerous because of themes or visuals. It’s dangerous because of the *systems* it runs on and what those systems teach our kids. Here’s what I mean: • The social layer is a magnet for the usual online problems. Groomers show up wherever kids gather, and security at Roblox’s scale is never as tight as people think. But beyond that, it replicates every problem of a social network: performance pressure, bullying, cliques, the constant need to “fit in.” Everything bad in the schoolyard gets amplified here, and using the tools of social media with notifications, daily login bonuses, daily progression plans, everything to make you stick to the platform. • The creator economy looks wholesome on paper (“kids making games!”) but the business model is extractive. Roblox takes a huge cut, most creators never see a payout, and it normalizes exploitative terms before kids even understand what exploitation is. • The most popular games on the platform run on variable-ratio reward loops. Random payouts, rapid resets, no real skill curve. It’s casino logic dressed up as kids entertainment. This is early training in gambling psychology, teaching children that chance-based payouts are what fun looks like in a game. Not rewarding skill is my biggest hang-up as a developer, it's the worst. • Microtransactions are everywhere. The platform is tuned to upsell. It teaches impulse buying before kids have any grasp of money. None of this looks scary to parents, because the art is bright and harmless. No gore, no swearing, no adult themes. That’s the distraction. The real issue is the behavioral design running underneath it all. I’m not saying Roblox is the devil or that it will ruin your kid. Parenting matters far more than any single platform. I’m only trying to counter this growing idea that as long as communication is blocked, everything is fine. There’s very little on Roblox that is actually “good” for kids. It has the negatives of Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram combined, and its target demographic is 8 to 12. If you’re letting your kids on it, go in with eyes wide open.
Dhurandhar is just another soft propaganda movie.
Dhurandhar doesn’t just tell a story — it broadcasts a narrative that feels unmistakably aligned with the political mood shaped by the BJP in recent years. From the first act itself, the film leans heavily on themes that mirror the ruling party’s communication style: hyper-patriotism, a morally infallible hero, a glorified state machinery, and a conveniently simplified definition of who is “for” or “against” the nation. The film’s dialogue, character arcs, and conflicts are not just dramatic choices; they strongly resemble talking points that dominate current political discourse. The hero functions almost like a larger-than-life embodiment of the ideal citizen often portrayed in BJP narratives — disciplined, unquestioning of authority, and framed as the lone savior against “internal threats.” The use of word internal threats again and again and use of slang -"ye naya india hai ghar mai ghus ke maarta hai" fir the 2nd part clearly shows their political alignment, Movie makes baseless claims in the name of creativity but somehow these claims aligns with BJP view - " makers went on to say that indian minister during 2000s sold indian currency plates to Pakistan and then R madhavan who was playing character of ajit dhobhal somehow said ki kabhi koi sarkar aayegi jisko desh ki chinta hogi tab kuch karenge".- basically justified the demonetization...tbh people believe such stories (in a country like India where people are so dumb !!do you guys think they will believe this!?) they'll certainly believe. It talks about all the terrorist attacks during UPA governments but somehow cut the part post 2014 during NDA govt..pathankot,pulwama and pahalgam are clearly missing out in the movie...but ik they'll mention abrogation of 370 as some great masterstroke in next part leaving out casualties for fun. This is not accidental. Indian cinema has always been political, but Dhurandhar takes it a step further by packaging a specific ideological lens as entertainment. .
Border Patrol declares "massive disturbance" as crowds form around agents in New Orleans
Bovino caught slipping! His texts were clearly visible at 2:50
Ontario’s new traffic plan: forgive speeders, torture everyone else
Just saw the news.... Ontario’s officially killing off more speed cameras. Great. So instead of fining the actual idiots flying through school zones, we’re gonna get blanketed with speed bumps everywhere. Because that’s the Doug Ford special Conservation plan.... let the reckless drivers off the hook, then screw over every single taxpayer with a car by turning every neighbourhood into a goddamn obstacle course. Speed bump. Speed bump on every 5-10 meters, just to shake your little head every morning and every night. Feels like the motto these days is “hug a speeder, punish the people who actually follow the rules.” This province sometimes, man... lost their logic..... trying to treat us like children.
People this stupid shouldn't be driving
Honorable mention to the no headlights at night contingent.
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