u/animalcrackerwhore

By this I mean that religious ideas, stories from religious books, etc should not be taught at all in mandatory history/social studies/etc classes.

Ive had to do a number of mandatory lessons on religion and learning the history of Christianity and the bible in my high school. Not only does it not apply to everyone (I am an atheist), but it is not based on science and cannot be proven as fact. Schools are supposed to give us the foundational knowledge of how the world and society works, giving us the essential knowledge that will allow us to be successful as adults. I do not believe religious lessons are beneficial to the average student and should only be taught in specialized elective classes or in church.

Trying to do a recomp/maingaining phase where I can gain muscle and potentially lose fat while eating maintenance calories.

My question is, should I expect scale weight to go up since I’m gaining muscle? Or should it stay relatively the same since I’m eating maintenance calories?

When other guys start calling you “boss”, “buddy”, “brother”, etc.

I knew I passed when I started getting called these by old conservative men at my work lol.

Im a peanut butter lover, and recently picked up some powdered peanut butter. Besides mixing with yogurt or oatmeal, what do you guys like to do with pb2?

How do you store your PB and why?

I usually keep it upside down in my pantry, but curious about switching to the fridge

I was vegetarian for about 6 years before I (very recently) decided to start eating fish for health reasons and because I am on a bodybuilding journey.

I love canned tuna and eat it 2-3 times a week, but I want to venture out a bit. My mom bought me plain salmon to try a couple months ago and I could not stomach it. The first few bites were ok, but the look and texture of it was getting to me and I got really in my head about it.

Anyways, I’m looking for easy beginner recipes that are relatively healthy and will hopefully allow me to tolerate more fish. I am particularly interested in salmon because of the nutrition, but open to other types. I have an air fryer and oven, hesitant about cooking on the stove because I dont want to stink the house up to the rest of my family lol.

The money will obviously go into a trust fund that I will not have access to until I’m 18. What is the smartest thing to do when I do obtain it? Invest right away, put it all towards college, something else?

Edit: Without giving too many details, we are suing a hospital for something that has been 100% proven and it Is incredibly unlikely that they will not settle in return for us not going public. My lawyers say we have A good chance at getting over $1 million even. I understand not getting my hopes up, but still just want to be prepared.

I am 17, 5’4, 118lbs, trying to put on muscle on a mostly vegetarian diet (will sometimes eat tuna). I weight train 3-5x per week and this is what I typically eat in a day:

10:00am Breakfast/Preworkout : 180g plain Greek yogurt, 1 scoop protein powder, 1 whole banana, ~1 cup plain unsweetened cornflakes or rice cereal, black coffee.

2:00pm Lunch/Postworkout: 3 eggs, 1 slice sourdough, edamame, 1-2 servings cheese, side of fruit

7:00pm Dinner: baked sweet potato with a serving of natural peanut butter, air fried tofu, green beans, feta/other type of cheese, hfcs free honey mustard/bbq sauce

10:30pm Snack: Fairlife protein shake and a serving of triscuits

This gets me to about 120g of complete protein and idk how many calories.

I started playing a little while ago, I’m at the point where I have the Cyclops and have upgraded my base and seaside quite a bit.

I have the recipe for the prawn suit, but don’t know how to get some of the materials. I’m struggling a lot with exploring the map. It feels like anytime I try to go deep, im attacked by a million creatures and can’t do anything. It feels like I haven’t made progress in so long and I just feel stuck.

Repost because I forget to do the verification thing.

Me (16m) and my brother (15m) have never been close. I won’t get into it too much, but he is treated very differently by my parents and we have never had a good relationship for a number of reasons.

I used to play music and was really passionate about it. It was a big part of my identity for some time. Naturally, my brother wanted to copy me and he eventually made it HIS whole identity too and was always trying to compete with me about music knowledge and stuff even though he never would’ve gotten into it if I hadn’t first.

Anyways, I had a pretty severe struggle with my health that prevented me from playing my instrument for a long time. In that time, he started trying to become a real music artist. It started off harmless, just posting on social media and making little songs on garage band. It started getting unbearable when my mom actually started believing in him and started spending an INSANE amount of money (that we do not have) to get his songs professionally mixed, booking out real venues for him to perform to my family members she begged to attend, getting him all these expensive instruments and musical technology that he doesn’t know how to properly take care of or use, I could go on and on. In the meantime, our gas bill is going unpaid and she’s telling me she cant get me groceries until her next paycheck.

The thing is, he actually sucks at singing so bad. Everyone but my mom knows it and talks about it, but just pretends because they obviously don’t want to hurt his feelings. He has 100 subscribers on YouTube and my mom has hired him an actual social media manager. Along with a vocal coach, “producing team”, assistant, etc. She works 80% of the time and the other 20% is spent running him to ‘meetings’ and ‘appointments’ for his nonexistent music career, or attending his little concerts. He is oblivious that we are broke because of him and that our mom will have a friend take me to my MEDICAL appointments while she goes to support him. They has been doing this for like 2 years and has not gotten any better, i genuinely can’t stand it. I feel so disconnected from them and like I have to take care of myself completely. He is also just super ignorant and not a great kid. He calls women (including my mom) bitches and acts misogynistic towards them, refuses to shower and take care of his hygiene, never cleans up after himself all (I am pretty much expected to clean up his messes around the house), and so much more.

I cannot wait for the day he finally realizes he’s not going to make it to Berklee or become famous for his horrendous music. I understand he is just a kid and that it is not right to feel this way, I just can’t help it. Yes I am in therapy.

its a slang and potentially offensive name, and it ends with “giver”??

Someone said it in a podcast I was watching and it got bleeped for some reason. what could this be?