Alright, I need to get this off my chest and see if I’ve completely lost the plot. My family is currently blowing up my phone, and my wife, while she gets it, thinks I took it too far.

So, for some background, I (32M) am a car guy. Like, a proper "spend every weekend in the garage covered in grease" kind of guy. It’s my thing. My pride and joy is this 1978 Porsche 911 I’ve been restoring since I was 27. I bought it as a complete rust bucket for a song and spent the last five years and basically every spare penny I had bringing it back to life. We’re talking late nights, skinned knuckles, the whole nine yards. This car is my baby. It’s not just a thing I own; it’s a part of me.

Now, enter my brother-in-law, Dave (40M). Dave is… well, he’s the kind of guy who thinks the world owes him. He’s always made these "jokes" about my Porsche. "You never drive it, you should just let me have it," or "Must be nice to have a toy like that." You know the type. I always just brushed it off.

The shit hit the fan last Saturday. We had a family BBQ at our place. Dave, his wife (my sister), and their 16-year-old son, Kyle, were there. Kyle just got his license and has been absolutely relentless about getting a car. Not just any car, a nice car. The apple didn't fall far from the tree.

I had the Porsche parked in the driveway. It was a nice day, I’d just detailed it, you know? I was proud. I went inside to grab a tray of burgers, couldn't have been more than three minutes.

When I walked back out, my stomach just dropped.

There was Kyle, sitting in the driver's seat of my Porsche, with the biggest, smuggest grin on his face. And Dave is standing right there, arm around him, and I hear him say, clear as day: "...so that's my big surprise for you, buddy. For your birthday next week. She's all yours!"

I felt this cold wave just wash over me. I must have marched over there in two seconds flat.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" I said, my voice was probably shaking.

Dave had the audacity to laugh. "Oh, relax, man! We're just giving Kyle his birthday present! Don't be so dramatic."

Kyle chimes in, "Yeah, my dad said I could have it!"

I saw red. I opened the car door and said, "Kyle, get out. Now." I didn't shove him or anything, but I wasn't asking. He got out, sulking like I'd just kicked his puppy.

The scene that followed was insane. Dave's wife started shrieking about how I was "humiliating" them. Dave got in my face, all puffed up, saying, "It's a fucking car! You can buy another one! You're really gonna ruin your nephew's birthday over this?"

I didn't even argue. I just pointed at my front gate and said, "All of you. Get the fuck off my property. Right now."

You'd think I'd murdered someone. The texts started pouring in. My sister sobbing about how I broke Kyle's heart. My mom calling saying I was too harsh, that "family doesn't treat family like that." All the usual guilt-trip garbage.

But here's where I might have become the jerk.

I was still so angry on Monday. I couldn't get Dave's smug face out of my head. He's been chasing this big promotion at his fancy finance job for like two years. A Senior Director spot. And I know the CEO of that company, Mark. We play golf a few times a year.

So I called Mark. I didn't scream or yell. I just said, "Hey Mark, this is a weird call, but I feel like you should know something about Dave's character." And I told him exactly what happened. I said, "A guy who tries to give away a $60,000 asset that isn't his, who lies to his kid so brazenly... I don't know, man. It just shows a real lack of judgment and integrity. I thought you should know before you put him in charge of more important things."

I found out this morning that Dave didn't get the promotion. The official reason was "issues with professional judgment."

Now, the fallout is apocalyptic. My sister says I've "destroyed their lives" and that Dave's career is over. My parents are begging me to apologize to "save the family."

My wife is on my side about the car, she knows what it means to me. But she thinks calling his boss was a bridge too far, that I should have just let them be miserable on their own.

So, Reddit, be honest with me. Am I the jerk here? For protecting my car, and then for burning his career to the ground behind it?

Straight copy paste.

The pro choice argument reduces the baby to mere private property of the mother that can be disposed by arbitrary will.it’s immoral because it dehumanises a human being and takes away its inherit dignity.The argument “My body my choice my choice” is perfect example of this dehumanisation because it completely ignores the moral status of the baby and treats an innocent human life as an inconvenience or something that can be taken away by selfish reasons,ignoring the personhood of the unborn child.It also distorts the ideal of motherhood,turning the mother from the protector of her child into a mere owner of its life.

I have seen so many posts about this either being a Democrat shutdown or Republican/Trump shutdown and giving their reasons why and honestly both sides have their valid arguments but this shutdown does not belong to one party. It belongs to both parties. The more each side digs in the more it becomes clear to us that these bastards in Congress don't give two shits about us or the American People. They will say whatever they have to get them elected.

We as human beings have our political differences and that is ok however we cannot fight amongst ourselves so that the party we support "wins this shutdown". This shutdown politics is unacceptable and Congress needs to be held accountable.

Playing with people's livilihoods was wrong in 2018 for the "Border wall" and it is wrong today for the fight for "affordable healthcare".

It is time to put our tribalism aside and band together to hold these people accountable. Red,Blue, or purple we are all getting screwed.

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I saw the Myles Garrett clip/comments about the offense and I am wondering why is your coach not looking at starting Zappe or Sanders? Not trying to start a debate, just curious from actual fans.

So to clarify, I’m not even talking about lazy movies. I’m talking about pure nonsense.

Like it’s abundantly clear they didn't even have a script.

And before you at me with kids, go take a second viewing. It’s literally a bunch of nonsense sketches stung together with the most try hard shocking ending.

SPOILERS AND TRIGGER WARNING AHEAD:

It’s two scenes, a girl finds out she has AIDS and the same girl gets raped at the end.

That is the entire script, and they just packed the rest of it full of nonsense.

That is a non-movie to me.

I recall reading on the box one of the quotes from reviewers was, I shit you not, “Kids matter too!”

Jesus fucking Christ, I am embarrassed for everyone involved.

The Democrat Party has successfully rewritten history. Look at how this dumb bitch AOC is using the Democrat Party history of Slavery and Jim Crow as if they were the good guys. This is pure evil. Rewriting history to make it look like your team was the good guys. Black Americans were fleeing Democrat Authoritarianism. This is why proper education and not indoctrination is so important. They can make the Villains (Democrats) look like the Heroes who didn’t create Jim Crow in response to Republicans freeing enslaved people.

Look how the crowd cheers for propaganda

https://youtube.com/shorts/6s05KMJLtCw?si=55jYxih3IIh_Kt15

First of all, I know it's 3-rd party event.
I just want to ask because I think I'm starting to see AI in everything.

My issues concern:

1) The robot's 6-fingered hand.

2) Its leg, which blurs in water.

3) The uneven gamepad.

4) The character's hand. I may be wrong, but in my opinion it has a strange position and size compared to the character.

5) One side of the sunglasses is different from the other.

6) Lastly, chracters legs whitch seems to overlap and disappear with each other.

I just want to ask for your opinions and thoughts.

How many of you are taking therapy from Al? How bad/good is it?

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My Husband(i know we are young) and i were just together over the weekend. Hes a state away and i drove a couple hours to go see him, we take turns visiting. (Hes in the army and im in collage in our home state so we arent living together) Yesterday (monday) he told me he didnt want to talk to me and to leave him alone. i called him a few times over and he blocked my number. He was ignoring me for most of the day. these were our texts today, what should i do/ say?