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OkBuddyCinephile, a subreddit made to satirize the “cinema” community, feels very split on the recent casting for Helen in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”.  

A user rails against race-swapping: https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddycinephile/comments/1t9nnre/comment/ol3ikjp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button  

Another user bravely fights against “blackwashing”: https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddycinephile/comments/1t9nnre/comment/ol3l0g9/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button  

A user claims that the reaction to the casting is ridiculous; several people disagree: https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddycinephile/comments/1t9nnre/comment/ol3rdeu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button  

A Greek claims that it’s disrespectful to refer to Greek mythological figures as “imaginary people”: https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddycinephile/comments/1t9nnre/comment/ol442c2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button  
 
Edit: much more drama throughout the thread as a whole

I a 31 male, got into an argument with my sister 32 female when at work. It was out of a miscommunication where she mistook a text message for bad attitude. My birthday was the following day and she made plans for me so when she took what I said as a bad attitude, she dangled whether or not she would follow through on them. That made me mad so I called her out on doing that causing her to reply telling me that she is considering backing out of the plans because my attitude would ruin her fun. What set this off was she asked me if I wanted to leave early with her and her boyfriend(we carpooled), or take an uber home. My response was that with the amount of the work day we had left, an uber would cost more than the money I'd earn finishing the day, so it wasn't much of a choice.

Here is where I might be tha AH. I got home(didn't go with her), and was feeling hurt. For context, at 32 years old, I have missed 20 birthdays due to money issues or family drama and had high hopes for this one, but dangling that she was going to back out of plans last minute and leave me with nothing for another birthday hurt me . So, in anger I told my mom what my sister said about her which was why she and her new boyfriend won't eat my mom's cooking. According to my sister, it was because her boyfriend felt my mom was unsanitary in the kitchen(she is not, while not the cleanest, definitely not gross by any means), and while I believe what my sister told me was a lie to make her boyfriend the scapegoat for why she doesn't want to eat our mom's cooking, it is what she said to me(and I told my mom that too). That broke my mom's heart to hear because she takes pride in her baking. It caused my mom to throw away all her baking supplies which i dug out of the trash only for her to throw away again the next day. This was nearly a week ago, she hasn't spoken to me either. What i said was the truth, but it only succeeded in hurting her. I feel like I shouldn't have said it.

To be clear, I am not seeking validation here. Truth be told, I already feel like an AH for this as is, but feel torn because I told her the truth even though it hurt her. Even though I apologized to my mom because I realized after the fact that what I told her only succeeded in hurting her, but I still feel guilty about it. Which is why I came here. So, AITAH for telling my mom something my sister said behind my back?

I find myself feeling overly sensitive towards injustice committed to others, at least compared to other people. Everyone I know seems to be able to healthily cope with issues of this nature, and they seem to be able to move on from it fairly quickly. But for me, especially if said issue is not resolved or the situation is not fixed in a fair way, I’ll sometimes ruminate on them for months, or even years, at a time. It’s even worse if the specific event happened near me.

What are some good ways to stop being so deeply affected by events such as these?

I (21F) am currently on vacation with my friends, Apple (21F), Banana (22F), Clementine (21M), Durian (22M). Last year we decided to book our first proper friend group trip after having known each other for 3 years, we booked a month long trip through South East Asia.

My friend Durian has been struggling with his weight for the past couple of years. Two years ago he confided in us that he struggles with binge eating and low self esteem due to the way he looks. We've tried helping him in several ways but he never accepts any help and avoids the topic altogether. If you bring up the topic he just changes the subject or says he will try his best to seek help but doesn't end up taking any action. We have thus decided we won't talk about it anymore unless he brings it up himself, because Durian told us we are putting too much pressure on him which worsens his mental health.

One year ago when we booked our trip Durian announced that he would be going on a proper weightloss journey. We were kind of skeptical because he hadn't worked on his mental health so we didn't believe weightloss would be possible without fixing the cause first, but still we decided to support him the best we could. His goal was to go from 18 stone to 14 stone in one year. I myself am not the fittest so I told him we should start training together. For about a month he showed up to our training session but then just stopped coming. He always had an excuse of why he couldn't come. We tried asking him how he was doing with the weightloss but he would always answer saying it is a private matter and talking about it makes him uncomfortable. One month before we left for our holiday he told us he had gained almost 2 stone during the year.

As the trip came closer I started to get annoyed by his behavior. He continually complains about seating, people giving him looks (which I haven't noticed), walking, not wanting to go sightseeing, that he doesn't have clothes etc.
I don't mind him not participating in certain plans but the constant nagging is just ruining my mood. My last straw was the water park. The whole ride to the park he just kept saying how insecure he is about his body and that he can't handle going to a place where people will be looking at him. He then refused to enter the park and made a whole scene at the entrance. I just told him that he doesn't have to go if he doesn't want to but to not ruin my vacation with his weight problems and that he should have thought about this before coming here. After I said this he went back to the AirBNB with Banana. Apple and Clementine are on my side saying he brought me to my breaking point and that he should apologize for his behavior. But Banana thinks I was to harsh and should have thought about his mental health. I haven't talked to him in two days and we still have three weeks left of our trip. Am I the Asshole?

My (28F) hometown had an outbreak of a serious virus, so pretty much everywhere was empty. I realized how precarious my food situation could be in this situation, so I decided to hunker down in a buffet so I could have a consistent supply of food.

I was minding my own business, eating MY food, when these two mean skinny dudes tried taking MY food!

They claimed they were “starving”, but I didn’t believe them.

I know the way they look at me. Well, I’m tired of low carbs and celery. I’m hungry! Those skinny dudes think that they can take just anything. World on a platter.

One of them tried taking food from one of the buffet tables, and I was LIVID. I started throwing dishes at them, and eventually I went sicko mode on him.

The other skinny dude then got pissed at me, and insinuated that I was FAT.

Thats when I really lost it. I decided that this man had to go down also.

But then this asshole kept hitting me, and gave me indigestion! What a pig. I decided to charge at him again, but my mobility scooter slipped on some of my vomit (due to the indigestion he gave me), and I went tumbling down. I ended up choking in my own vomit.

AITA? While I know I reacted with anger, I feel like those men had no right to take my food, or, worse, call me fat!

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One person calls out the racism in the thread, others disagree.

One Redditor believes that Reddit isn’t anti-Islam enough.

In response to the above comment, another user calls BS.

In response to the user that called BS: I’m not islamaphobic, BUT…

(They also have a plan on how to deal with Islamists, which have absolutely no similarities with the policies of the current US administration, at all.)

I would add more links, but editing on mobile sucks and it’s not healthy to have high blood pressure.

For those who don’t know, census tracts are subdivisions of counties in the United States created by the Census Bureau (that don’t have any legal or administrative power, it’s just for statistics).

My question is, how are they determined in terms of their boundaries? In some cases they roughly correlate to neighborhoods, but in most others they seem to be completely arbitrary (in fact in my town one of them includes sections from two different neighborhoods).