'AITA for adjusting the thermostat at my in-law's house and not letting them adjust it at mine?': Family's thermostat battle heats up

Few family arguments get more—well… heated than the arguments that emerge over the thermostat and its setting. With different groups and subgroups of people fiercely insisting on wildly different settings that agree with their specific preferences—things can get cold-blooded.

Speaking of cold-blooded: That's exactly what this guy's lizard-person relatives are. Who in their right mind chooses to exist in 80° F heat when you could just as easily not? These in-laws must spend most of their time basking in the sun on a rock and flicking insects with their tongues. 

This guy posted to Reddit's r/AmItheA**whole subreddit to see whether or not he was in the wrong for insisting on a double standard when it came to the temperature settings in his and his in-law's houses.

The majority of Redditors seem to think that he's in the wrong, but after going over the post a few times and weighing up the facts—I think I disagree.

Normally, setting a double standard would automatically make you the a-hole in a situation without exception. 

Enter: The exception. 

It's hard to say that someone is in the wrong when the argument is with someone whose preferences are wildly unreasonable. Just because you enjoy existing on the surface of the sun doesn't mean other people will.

OP does end up in the wrong here for forbidding the in-laws to change the thermostat at his house when it was his wife who changed it. It sounds like that should have been a private conversation first between the couple; she gets just as much of a say as he does. 

That's my take. What's yours? Let us know.

Next, check out this family photo refusal that caused a major meltdown.

'I had to explain to a girl that penguins were not fish': 20+ People who shared their impressively dumb ideas out loud

Truly, how did these people ever make it through school without knowing such basic information? In this incredible post to r/AskReddit, one person asked people to tell them all about the dumbest people in their lives. And thousands of comments rolled in, sharing hilarious stories of people who made all kinds of goofy mistakes. 

While some of the people in these stories were children, a decent amount were adults or teenagers. It's really surprising how someone tells you an incorrect random fact when you're a child, and then you just believe it for a really long time. If you're never corrected on that tidbit of information, that's how you end up on the long list of people below. 

Next up, this coffee shop barista has this annoying regular who never tips, so she found a way to get back at her that's both clever and mildly annoying for the customer. 

'The price of rugs': 20 adulting realities that caught folks completely off guard

The reality of adulthood is full of disillusionment, existential crises, and expenses you never thought existed. Here is a compilation of reactions to adulting realities from this r/AskReddit thread. When you're finished, check out these top Karens of the week!

'We prefer workers who sit at desks in chairs': Candidate with back problems gets kicked out of Zoom interview because he wasn't sitting at a desk

We've all been given radio silence from recruiters before, but this is a new level of savage ghosting from a potential employer. This thread was posted to Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit by u/DentistThink4578, who opened up about a horrible Zoom interview experience he had recently.

 

The original poster has serious back problems that make sitting in an office chair hard to do (hence, the need to work remotely). During the interview, he set up his laptop on a lap desk and used a neutral background. It was about as professional as it could be given his condition, but no less than two minutes into the interview, the Redditor found himself cut off mid-sentence. He checked to see what happened and learned that he had been kicked out of the Zoom interview and blocked with a single departing message explaining that "we prefer workers who sit at desks in chairs." The audacity of this interviewer to go about it this way rather than politely ask if there was a reason for the Redditor's setup just goes to show how tone-deaf employers are these days.

 

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the suggestions people made in the comments about what he should do next! For more, here's another story of an interview process gone wrong.

'Street justice': Toxic older sibling redeems himself by standing up to late mother's vulture "friends" trying to claim her things

Nothing can be more difficult for a child than losing a parent. Even if it's a complicated family relationship, that kind of loss is heavily felt, especially when experiencing it as a kid. Recently, a Redditor shared the story of her complicated family life and when she lost her mother. 

On the subreddit thread r/EntitledPeople, she shares the heartbreaking story of her mothers vulture "friends." He mother was very sick and when she passed, she reported it and everyone in the neighborhood watched. After her mother was taken away, her fake friends came rushing in and started fighting over her things. The Reddit poster said that her mother was a very beautiful redhead that had great style. Since she was just a kid, she couldn't stop her mother's entitled friends from ravaging all her mother's belongings. There was one dress in particular, a green silk dress, that was her mother's well-known statement piece. The vultures fought over it, but one eventually was able to lock it in her car. 

While this is happening, her older siblings were coming home from high school. Her oldest brother, a 17-year-old drvg dealer, was feared amongst the family and even the neighborhood. The reddit poster said she was actually terrified of her brother and experienced lots of anger from him. However, in the moment the sadness of losing her mother consumed her, and she went to him and silently showed him their mother's green dress along with a pile of their mother's stuff inside one of their mother's "friend's" car. 

That was their only sibling exchange until the funeral. The reddit poster says her brother really stepped up for the wake and was a different person. He stood tall and made sure all his siblings were okay. The part that truly redeemed him for the family is when they saw their mother, laying their looking peaceful in her beautiful green silk dress. The reddit poster never asked how he did it, but in that moment she finally was sure that, despite all of his issues, her brother really does love this family. Scroll on to read the entire story.

‘I’m frankly disgusted': Karen offers $140 to buy a rare Pokemon card worth $20,000, then goes berserk on her son's after-school counselor when he tells her 'it's not for sale'

Kids love Pokemon. The idea of training a powerful imaginary creature that equal parts lethal as they are adorable is intoxicating. As we grow up, the nostalgic element of the Poke-franchise evolves into a monetized machine, but the joys of sharing rare cards and talking about your favorite Pokemon is something that never loses value. One Pokemon lover and volunteer childcare worker recently discovered exactly how tainted Pokemon trade can become when folks lose sight of the original pleasures of the game (ie: when Karens get involved).

As a person who works with kiddos regularly, OP (aka u/dingomatemybaby), was excited to bring a rare Pokemon card that he owned to the after school program's show-and-tell. This kids were thrilled to take a look at such a rare card, a mint condition Charizard that resells for $15,000-$20,000 on Ebay. One boy in particular grew especially fond of the card and went home to tell his mommy all about it. 

Sure enough, the mom immediately texted OP offering to buy the card as a gift for her son's birthday. She came prepared to make an offer of course and sent him a link to some random Charizard card on Ebay that was selling for $140. Thinking she was offering a fair bargain, she told OP that she would give him $140 in cash to buy it from him. He respectfully declined, claiming the card was worth far more than that and was not for sale. 

Karen persisted then lost her marbles when she was continually denied, but OP put her in her place. 

OP brought the same hostile energy to the table that Karen did and clapped back with some of the best comebacks we've ever seen. Scroll to read the rest of the chat thread, destroying this Karen mom and learning her lesson. For more audacious tales, check out this story about a company that offers employees a pizza party in lieu of grieving time after their favorite employee passed away.