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Families are bracing themselves for a difficult winter with the price of basic necessities like food, energy and housing skyrocketing in recent months. For many, the annual festivities around Christmas could be where the change is most keenly felt. Last year, a Gallup poll found Americans were planning to spend an average of $886 on Christmas gifts alone. It’s difficult to know whether that kind of expenditure will be maintained this year, but some families are already considering extreme measures to try and reduce the costs traditionally associated with the festive season....

Taken to Reddit’s “AmITheAhole” forum, a woman wanted the opinion of the AITA community if she would be considered the ahole if she were to call the authorities to kick the family out. The post has 15,000 upvotes and 2,000 comments. The 28-year-old Reddit user explained that she inherited a holiday home after her grandmother passed away. She also said it’s a 5-hour drive from where she lives so she doesn’t stay there often....

However, one bride-to-be has been forced to make a difficult decision when it comes to her big day. A decision, she says, that now means several of her closest family members are set to miss the occasion. In a post published on Reddit’s “Am I The A**hole” forum, the woman explained that she is due to marry in three months as part of a low-key wedding and reception and last week got in touch with her parents to ask that her younger sister, Anna, not come....

Posting to the discussion-based site on October 28, the woman who goes by the account name Maiasaur, described how she was about to start a new job following a two-year bout of ill-health “then Covid happened.” Because her husband had recently been promoted, he convinced her to stay home to look after their 2-year-old as the nurseries were closed. She explained: “His logic was that we needed to keep his stable well paid job in preference to me starting a new, lower paid job with no security....

Kids may not appreciate being given chores around the house but studies suggest these tasks can have a positive influence on their overall development. This was perhaps best highlighted in a study published in the Australian Occupational Therapy Journal earlier this year, which saw researchers from La Trobe University quiz over 200 parents of children aged 5 to 13 on the topic. The parents were asked questions about what chores they have their children do, along with questions created to evaluate their kids executive functioning....

In a viral Reddit post published on r/AmITheA**hole, Redditor u/RealisticStreet1827 (otherwise referred to as the original poster, or OP) said his phone was smashed during one of his 23-year-old brother’s practical jokes and explained how he was nearly shamed into paying for the damage himself. Titled, “[Am I the a**hole] for demanding my brother with a baby on the way buy me a new phone[?]” the post has received over 4,500 upvotes and nearly 1,000 comments in the last day....

Posting to the discussion-based site on December 6, under the account name Change-Ad9635, she started by revealing her “husband is turning 30 next month” and he wanted to be “pampered” for his special occasion. However, she then went on to explain that he has come up with a list, which he named “birthday month expectations,” which details some of the stuff he wants to be able to do during the entire month....

In a post shared to Reddit’s Am I the A******? (AITA) forum on September 5, user u/RAthrowRA30136 explained that her sister and husband do not get along, which is exasperated by the husband’s “opinions” on in vitro fertilization (IVF). Age and fertility A recent study conducted by Johns Hopkins University found that around 7 percent of U.S. women struggle with infertility. Surveying 53,764 women, researchers found that women aged 40 to 44 were 11 times more likely to struggle with infertility than younger women....

The anonymous bride, known as u/AITAmaybebridezilla, posted about her situation in Reddit’s popular “Am I The A**hole” forum where it received nearly 10,000 upvotes and 600 comments. The post can be found here. In Indian culture, the color red is often heavily featured in weddings and other religious ceremonies due to its symbolic significance. Many Indian brides wear red during the wedding because it signifies prosperity, new beginnings, and good luck....

Posting to Reddit’s popular “Am I The A**hole” forum on Wednesday under the username u/rrraaaqq, the woman described her younger brother as sometimes being “a little bit of a jerk to women.” So far, the post has received more than 7,700 up-votes and over 760 comments. At the beginning of her post, she explained that she and her husband bought a four-bedroom home with the intention of filling it with children....

The internet is a global network of billions of servers, computers, and other hardware devices. Each device can connect with any other device as long as both are connected to the internet using a valid IP address. The internet makes the information sharing system known as the web possible. The web, which is short for World Wide Web, is one of the ways information is shared on the internet (others include email, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and instant messaging services)....

These adjusted readings are then compared to complicated tables that list “percentile ranges.” A percentile range tells the healthcare provider how the measured blood pressure compares to other children by looking at the combined blood pressure readings from millions of individual children. For example, if your healthcare provider tells you that your child’s blood pressure is in the 65th percentile, that means 35% of children of the same age, height, weight, and gender have higher blood pressure than your child....

Koike: I want to help deepen the ties between the prime minister’s office and other countries–create new channels of diplomacy with [other] national-security advisers. By doing so I hope to enhance Japan’s [international] presence. World affairs are becoming more complicated and changing more rapidly, so it’s no longer [adequate] for an individual ministry alone to deal with them. Thus, we are trying to create a system where vital information is gathered in the prime minister’s office so he can respond swiftly [to various situations] based on the national interest....

With the completion of its Tiangong space station last fall, China became only the third nation to maintain a continuous human presence in low-Earth orbit. The T-shaped outpost was assembled in just 18 months by crews of rotating Chinese astronauts—also known as taikonauts, deriving their name from the Chinese word taikong, meaning space or cosmos—after the launches of core module Tianhe and laboratories Wentian and Mengtian between April 2021 and October 2022....

When we got to France, they sent me to automobile school. I learned to drive trucks, a tank and the Studebakers the officers got driven around in. I did pretty well in training and got a 98 on my test, but they gave the tank job to someone else. I got transferred to the medical corps after an ambulance driver got killed. They figured I’d fit in, since my dad was a doctor....

The updates begin today, with new features rolling out each day, culminating with the biggest releases on Thursday. Among them is the ability to publish images and videos to the main Instagram feed via the Instagram website on PC, Mac, iPad and any other platform without a dedicated Instagram app. Even Instagram admits this has been “long requested by our IG community”, and it’s finally giving users what they want....

Harassment is a problem that most social media platforms have been trying to find the answer to for quite some time, and Instagram is still working on it. Efforts have been made in the past, to be sure, but combating online abuse is an ongoing and constant process—which is why Instagram’s tools are expanding. In the past, you could block a troublesome account, as well as tell Instagram to auto-block any additional accounts that users may create....

Despite continuing with a 10nm process, they’re arguably Intel’s most ambitious laptop chips in years. That’s because it shifts to the company’s hybrid big.LITTLE architecture, first seen on Alder Lake desktop CPUs in November. This is comprised of both fast performance cores and slower power-efficiency cores, with the ability to dynamically switch between them according to your workload. Rather than performance suffering as a result, it should improve speed and responsiveness in the long run....

With the traditional gameplay that can be expected from FromSoftware games, alongside a brand-new setting partly built by fantasy author George R.R. Martin, Elden Ring appeared exciting for new fans looking to get into a Soulsborne RPG as well as adding enough new elements to give something to older fans who’d loyally played through the Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro titles. With new bosses, new mechanics and an updated character creator as just a few things that Elden Ring added to keep players interested, there’s another returning element to the game that may prove harder than some of the game’s bosses....

The Nerazzurri have climbed to fourth spot in the table after winning nine of their last 10 Serie A games, trailing second-placed Roma by eight points. Medel urges Sanchez to join Inter And Pioli is under no illusion as to the importance of Sunday’s clash as Inter look to finish in the top three and seal a return to the Champions League for the first time since 2012. “It will be a very important game....