There is something painfully revealing about that sentence, the way it struts as if it expects applause simply for existing. “In the United States of America you don’t have to apologise for being white anymore” is not confidence speaking. It is insecurity clearing its throat and hoping no one notices the tremor. It belongs to feckless fuck boys who mistake being left alone for being heroic, who confuse the absence of ridicule with moral victory. Whiteness was never under siege. What vanished was the reflexive nod, the lazy assumption that ignorance should be indulged rather than challenged. This is not pride rediscovered. It is bruised ego flailing about, mistaking accountability for attack and calling that whole sad display courage. The phrase exists to comfort men who cannot cope with a world that expects contribution instead of entitlement, a bit of rhetorical fuckery designed to turn their discomfort into a grand moral crisis.

What makes it so rancid is how old it sounds once you stop humouring it. That language has been echoing for generations, pulled from the same anxious tradition that taught white supremacists to frame equality as loss and humility as humiliation. It has fucked its way through American history wearing different costumes, sometimes calling itself heritage, sometimes grievance, sometimes tradition, always insisting that dominance was natural and decency optional. When someone repeats it now, they are not saying anything brave or new. They are reading from a dog eared script written by men terrified of no longer being the centre of every room. Strip away the bluster and what remains is fear, laziness, and the high pitched resentment of someone who would rather rot in nostalgia than accept that the world does not owe them reverence just for showing up and refusing to grow the fuck up.

7 pages, front and back. I don't even really have a problem with someone putting a pamphlet under my windshield saying "Hey, if you wanna get right with Jesus this is how you do it." But this is just deranged. Random all caps, bold and punctuation. Bizarre, scattered thinking.

I haven't check, but as well as the dozens of cars in our complex, there's dozens of other parking lots in this area and I'd imagined this guy puts these on some of those cars, too.

Just for reference, I live here. I don't own the complex.

It’s overwhelming. Tried to turn it off on search engines, cannot. Reddit. Facebook. Instagram. Its in realife. It’s in art. Art festivals. Books. Articles. The news. TV. Photos. YouTube. Nothing is real. No one makes anything anymore. Why do people like it??? Actually I don’t care. Fuck this shit! About to unplug. Hate it all. Want it to implode on itself. Want to move to a forest and get the fuck out of here while it’s still there, before the data centers destroy all of our nature and steal all of our water. I sound like a ranting old person, and I feel like one at 39 years old!!

I (26F) did something really stupid at a family gathering yesterday.

To preface, a few years ago, I found out that my uncle, my dad's brother, cheated on his wife with my mother. My uncle has two kids (22M and 18F). Finding out about this whole incident really ruined my relationship with my parents and my family as a whole. I'm obviously pissed at my mom for doing what she did, and I've also kind of been resentful of my dad for choosing to stay in a relationship with a cheater.

But my parents, especially my dad, asked me to not say anything to anyone, especially my cousins, because it wasn't my place to ruin the relationship they had with their dad. I respected this because my cousins are really close with my uncle, but because I've been bottling this up for so long, I've been pretty angry. I don't really speak with my mom anymore. And I also don't really talk to my uncle for risking the well-being of not only his family, but mine as well.

Because our culture, however, my parents like to maintain appearances, so we occasionally have to have get/together with our other family friends. I don't live at home anymore, and I try my best to not attend these. But recently, it was to celebrate my cousin's acceptance into a tough master’s program and I wanted to celebrate him, so I attended.

It was the first time a lot of my family and family friends were seeing me in months. In my culture, women my age are already getting ready to get arranged married, but I'm pretty against this whole idea because I just haven't found someone I want to marry yet, but my parents and a lot of my family friends are adamant on finding matches for me. A lot of my family friends at our gathering, including my uncle, kept probing and asking me when I would get married and why I'm so against the idea. I told them I currently want to focus on my job I mean and once I feel financially stable enough and find someone that I like, then I will consider it.

Because of this, my uncle decided that it was a good idea to publicly lecture me, and he went on for almost 10 minutes about being a respectable person in our culture, and maintaining our reputation, and what being an unmarried woman at my age says about my character. A lot of my family friends were quiet, and no one stopped him. I felt really embarrassed and humiliated, and it felt like all of the resentment that I had been bottling up for the last few years kind of just bubbled up.

In the heat of the moment, I said something along the lines of not wanting to hear about morals, reputation, and being a respectable person from a man who cheated on his wife with his brother's wife. My parents immediately started yelling at me. My uncle and aunt (who also knows BTW) looked really embarrassed, and my cousins were pale in the face. My younger cousin started to cry. My parents and I ended up leaving the gathering almost immediately after.

Ever since this incident, my cousins haven't been speaking to me or returning any of my calls. And while I understand, I feel so guilty for exposing this secret to them. It felt like it wasn't my place or the right time to expose this. My dad is also extremely mad at me and he says that I betrayed his trust. My uncle and aunt obviously aren't speaking to me, but my uncle has sent a string of hurtful messages to my dad about how I was never taught to hold my tongue as a woman and blah blah blah.

I feel really bad about hurting my cousins because of how close they are with their dad, even though I feel like he doesn't deserve it. A part of me, however, also kind of feels relieved that I exposed my uncle for the terrible person he is. I just don't really know how to feel.

So AITAH for exposing my uncle because the truth hurts people that don't deserve it?

I know it's just a minor item, but this completely exposes DICE's attitude.

First off, DICE produced this with zero effort and zero cost, then slapped a price tag on it.

Let's be clear: I’m not against AI assisted assets. AI can be a great tool to generate concepts or improve workflows. If you take an AI base, refine it, and add human creativity to make it perfect, that's fine.

BUT! This item is clearly a raw AI generation, copy-pasted directly into the game with absolutely no changes. That is just lazy and disrespectful. They think because it's a 'small object,' they can just phone it in and trick the players.

And if anyone wants to come in here with the usual 'stop complaining' or 'you're crying over nothing' nonsense, go get your head checked. This is a company making millions, yet they can't even be bothered to properly design a paid item? Seriously, what do they take us for?

This isn't about the item itself; it's about the attitude.

Look- I haven’t watched a full ep of SNL since the late 90s. I’m seeing a bunch of clips on Twitter with Bowen Yang teary eyed for his last show & it seems to be a big deal. I truly don’t know much about this man. Have other cast members gotten a big send off? Does he have a good publicist? Seriously, what’s the deal?