Forgive Puns

Lab grown meat is seeing dramatic reductions in price : https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/innovation/lab-grown-meat-may-save-lot-more-farm-animals-lives-n743091

In theory there is nothing stopping it from being both cheaper (i.e. easier to industrialize production) and healthier (can reduce fat content and increase protein/iron etc) than real meat.

Personally I've been a pretty huge skeptic of the organic movement and would rather put my money into supporting lab grown meats.

India has a huge problem with low protein intake and stunting - estimates of protein requirements to reach full body potential while growing up is 50g a day, (roughly ~10-15 cups of dal a day when in soupy form, 3 cups solid without water, cup=250ml). Natural meat has a protein density 3x as much as raw dal. Artificial varieties can go even higher.

So let's consider a hypothetical scenario since lab grown meat is at an early stage right now, and very expensive right now, but let's assume that at some point it reaches comparable prices to normal meat (e.g. ~50% more expensive to 50% cheaper), it has a higher protein density and lower fat than real meat, you don't need to kill/hurt animals to produce it, and companies start competing with each other on who does the least harm to animals as a competitive differentiator, similar to how the organic food movement emphasizes not using chemical fertilizer as a competitive differentiator with regular food.

EDIT: Wow, Didn't expect the downvote army to appear for this.

EDIT 2: Non-vegetarians please chime in as well - what conditions would lab-grown meat have to meet (forgive pun) for you guys to switch over?

Listening to POA right now (for the umpteenth time) and feel my blood pressure going up as I get to the point of Lupin and Sirius telling their story to the three and knowing Snape is listening to the entire thing and still wanting to give Sirius to the death eaters (EDIT: I meant to say dementors here) and denying that Peter was alive. Makes me so angry every time I get to this point. That, along with the way he treats HP so horribly does not make his ending grant him forgiveness from me. He’s up there with Umbridge, in my opinion, of evil. Snape Could have cleared Sirius but he refused.

EDIT: Thanks for the awards! The reactions here show how much these characters are alive in our minds and make us so emotional. I’ve enjoyed reading all the different opinions and defenses for opinions. For all the flaws and plot holes JKR had in the writing she got something right that we all keep re-reading/watching/listening to these stories and still get emotional. It’s fascinating how our perceptions change as we get older and still read these “children’s” books and love them and love to hate parts so much!

In 2016, I reached 100 lbs lost. I was 19, still living at my parents house, and wasn't taking college courses. Basically, I made weight loss a full time job, and it worked.

When I got to college, I started to slip. Going out to eat too much. By my senior year, I had gained 30 lbs. Then I got into a relationship and started a corporate job soon after. I stress ate (which is my big problem), and the 70 lbs left came back really quickly.

Now I feel like garbage. I've been trying all throughout lockdown to lose weight, and while at one point I did manage to lose 28 lbs, I'm now +7 on the lockdown as a whole (once again sabatoging my own progress). I desperately want to lose the weight again. I hate being fat. I want the respect, health, & dating opportunities that come with fitness, but I can never seem to make any progress. And it certainly isn't helping that everytime I think back on my 2016 self I just feel like a massive idiot for letting myself go, even when I well knee the consequences of obesity, having had loved them.

I (14M) have been moving my entire life. Since I was 6, my family has moved once every year. Sometimes house-to-house, usually state-to-state.

I have never lived in the same place for more than two years. It feels like every year and a half my life is undone and restarted worse. It’s had disastrous consequences on my mental health, and the only time I’ve gotten therapy we moved away a month into it :/

I never keep friends and the most recent move is the only time I’ve ever been able to keep in contact with people after a move. I’m a massive introvert, so making friends for me is a big accomplishment and very difficult

Most recently, my dad got a job in an area I hate. We have family here who we stayed with during right before and during the pandemic, so we have experience here.

For a a few months, we rented a house somewhere else, and while we were there my dad got this job. I was extremely mad at them for accepting it because they knew how much I and my sister (13F) were uncomfortable and unhappy there. They told me that the only reason we were going there was to save enough money to move away from there. Because of this I was more okay with it, but as soon as we got down here my parents decided to try and buy a house so that we could “plant our roots.”

This is infuriating to me. My mom, sister, dad, and I all don’t like this area, but my parents are saying that they would rather keep us in one area until we finish high school than have to move again. Recently we had a conversation about this where I made it extremely clear that I wanted to move away from here and that I wouldn’t be okay with school here. They’ve been saying for years how much they don’t want me to be moved in high school, but they also said that about every grade I’ve ever been in, and we’ve moved during all of them.

What makes me the most mad is that they’ve said that this time, they would listen closely to everything we said and try to listen. Now more than ever, they said that our opinion matters. Every time I’ve brought up that I’m unhappy here, they get mad at me and say I’m not mature enough to decide what’s best for me right now.

Last night we had a conversation about it where I brought up how they said that we were coming here to leave, and they denied that ever happening. I snapped and started yelling at them, telling them that they’ve never listened to me and just moved us around without any thought towards what’s best for us. I told them that no matter what th

Forgiveness is choosing to not let negative experiences of the past define how you feel in the present.

Edit: update posted https://www.reddit.com/user/Crew-Various/comments/mu9wyf/update_aita_for_refusing_to_forgive_my_cousin/

I (18M) have been with my boyfriend (18M) have been together since May 2019. We are both bisexual.

Last year, when everything started to shut down, my parents offered to let my cousin, Amy (18F), stay with us as she is immunocompromised, and her parents are both doctors, where mine are both able to WFH. Everything was fine for a while, we mostly kept to ourselves, did our school work, and spent time online with our friends.

A few weeks in, I was sat in the kitchen on facetime with my boyfriend- usually, I would have done this in my bedroom, but my dad's office is next to my room and he was on an important work call. She came in to get something, and must have glanced over my shoulder and seen him. When I had ended the call, she asked who he was, I told her he was my boyfriend, and she just made the comment that he was cute. At the time, it didn't seem like it was going to be a big deal.

But after that, whenever I tried to have a call with my friends, or my boyfriend, she would try to come into my room. She tried to play it off as wanting to ask me a question, but it was happening too often, and she would keep asking 'don't I get to say hi?', which I found odd. We go to different schools, and she had never met my friends, or shown any interest in them before this point. And if my phone rang while we were in the same room, she would always ask if it was 'the cute boyfriend', and she started making comments about how she wished she'd met him first. I asked her to stop, as it was making me feel uncomfortable.

It got worse. She found him on facebook, and started sending flirty and sexual messages to him. He blocked her, and she made a second account and continued until he blocked her again. She then got into my phone and found his number and started texting and calling him. She would leave voicemails, and it was always about how good she would be as his girlfriend, and how he should leave me for her, and everything she would do for him. She even sent him nudes. He blocked her number.

I told my parents what she was doing, and showed them the proof, and they told her that she had to leave because she was making me so uncomfortable. I've not spoken to her since.

My extended family are now trying to make plans for this s

People like to claim that Bethesda ruined Fallout with Fallout 76, but forget that Fallout had a dark age.

That was the age of Fallout Tactics and Brotherhood of Steel. Both games where so bad it makes Fallout 76 look good.

Yet people tend to forgive Interplay for those games being made, but not Bethesda with Fallout 76