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the-exercist:

dreamofunconsciousness:

the-exercist:

my-way-to-get-skinny:

Still hungry?

Absolutely!

The average active adult needs 2,000 calories per day in order to function in a safe and healthy manner. If I’m active to the point where I consistently run 1+ hour every day, then it is far more likely that my caloric needs are around 2,400-2,500.

Considering that, a meal of 1,200 calories would perfectly suit my needs. It would supply roughly half of my calorie requirements, which is a God-send since a fast food meal is relatively cheap. It’s a great value, especially if I don’t have much time to cook or have the resources to prepare my own meals!

The average burger is going to supply me with significant protein and carbs. That’s exactly what I’d need in order to build more muscle and have enough energy to make it through a workout. Even the sugar within the meal can be beneficial in supplying me with a boost of energy and can stop me from feeling hungry for a prolonged period of time. Not half bad.

Is this the most healthy meal known to man? Of course not. But it’s still a very reasonable deal and the calorie count is well within the average adult’s daily needs. 

Don’t let calories scare you! You need them. If you were capable of burning off an entire meal within the hour, you’d probably be dead by now.

1200 empty calories in a meal

next to no nutrition. all the calories are sugar and fat. that’s it. you’ll have no energy and have glucose spikes in your blood because the lack of fiber because of the lack of complex carbs. this is diabetes in a meal. 

so no, you should not be hungry for diabetes

Nutritionally, this BK meal contains roughly 28g of protein and 3g of dietary fiber. It potentially also includes 35% of our Vitamin C daily requirements, 2% Vitamin A, 12% calcium, and 27% iron. Of the 1,010 calories (that I could verify directly from the company’s nutritional information guide), only 410 are from fat. That isn’t a terribly significant amount of fat, in the long run, nor are the nutrients small enough to be viewed as negligible.

Eating this will not cause you to get diabetes. Eating this meal is perfectly fine if you do have diabetes, as long as you are able to adjust your insulin intake accordingly. So don’t use an illness as your debate point – Diabetic people are not a prop.

karkat-vantas-do-not-mess:

k-m-anthony:

Today in “things I like about Steven Universe,” the Cluster.

There’s a tendency in fantasy media to create “acceptable targets” – basically, people it’s “okay” to kill. Zombies are “okay” to kill because they’re not “really alive” in the first place. They’re more like a plague than they are like people.

It doesn’t matter if you shoot them in the skull, if you blow off their limbs, make them bleed, make them writhe, make them howl, make them suffer. Whatever. You’re not murdering people. You’re curing a plague.

With a shotgun.

You know, like, check your humanity at the door. You don’t need it here. This is a world where there’s no reason not to be violent, a fantasy world where the name of the game is murdering dozens or hundreds or thousands of people without having to worry about that weird, pesky thing called a conscience.

And, hey, if you don’t get that, then you’re just…weak, or whatever, and you’re probably going to die or get someone else killed because those are the only options in this world we’ve created, and if you’re sitting there, wringing your hands, then you’re missing the point.

You don’t get it. Don’t you get it? Killing is okay now. Maiming is okay now. It’s good. It’s admirable. It’s even necessary. And it’s always unconditionally justified. At least as long as you’re aiming at the acceptable targets.

Hell, as long as you’re doing that, it doesn’t even matter who you hit in the meantime. It’s all okay. It’s unconditionally justified.

It doesn’t matter if Superman crushed half of Metropolis. He had to. It’s justified. Zod was a monster. He had to be stopped. Reactionary violence against a big enough threat, real or perceived, is always okay and always worth it. And if anyone else dies in the process, then…okay. Who cares?

We love creating these stories where mass murder is the only way out.

And it would have been easy to do that with the Cluster.

When the fusion experiments were introduced, they were basically played up for shock value. Body horror. Disembodied hands and feet, sewn together, writhing around on the floor and screaming digitally distorted screams.

It was far and away the most extreme thing Steven Universe had ever explicitly shown on-screen – and presented in such an unexpectedly tense and overtly terrifying way that I remember coming on here and posting a little trigger warning for people in all the other time zones.

It would have been easy to say, “Well, okay, so…this would be a mercy killing. I mean, these Gems technically died years ago, anyway. These are just their remnants, all twisted up and tortured. It’s okay to end them now.”

But I’m glad they were only initially shocking. Eventually, kind of cute. And, ultimately, sympathetic.

“Is that a weapon?”

No.

The Cluster is not a weapon.

Or a monster.

It’s not even scary.

It’s pretty. And it’s sad. And it’s trying. But it needs help.

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Pictured: the Cluster. A group of traumatized, broken, desperate people
lashing out in ways that are hurtful and destructive to the world around
them because they don’t feel whole, and they don’t know how to
cope with that.

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(and others!)

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Pictured: the Cluster. A group of traumatized, broken, desperate people
who don’t want to hurt anyone. Who just need a little bit of patience, a
little bit of understanding, a space where they can exist and heal in
peace, and the support of other people like themselves.

“Shard, meet shard.”

The Cluster: Like all the Crystal Gems. Like me. Like a lot of us.

I hadn’t..

soaringcomet:

Attention Parents/Aunts/Uncles/Anyone buying a gift for a kid:

After Finding Dory there will be a lot of kids who want clownfish/blue tangs/ other fish from the movie.

Salt water fish are expensive and difficult to care for. Some like clown fish can be bred in captivity, but some like the blue tang cannot be meaning that they need to be kidnapped from the ocean. Additionally, blue tangs can get VERY BIG.

Target has these new toys that are water activated, so they’ll swim around in a bowl just like fish. They come as dory, nemo, and marlin. They make a fantastic alternative to real fish.

TL;DR Dont buy kids real saltwater fish after Finding Dory, get them these toys from Target instead

If you’re using Skype you should dump it and get Discord instead!

unlimitedgoats:

Pros:

  • Cleaner, easier to navigate interface
  • Free servers for more permanent group chat things (way easier to hop in and out of chats)
  • You can actually have different nicknames on each server if you want
  • Is actually well built and doesn’t make your computer yearn for death

Stuff coming down the pipeline soon according to devs:

  • Video chat
  • Linux client

Cons:

  • All your friends aren’t on it
  • But you can change that

Download it. It’s great and it’s only getting better. It’s aimed at gamers but it has nearly all the functionality of Skype and then some.

But what about people selling dogs and therefore taking away a potential home from a shelter pet? Only really applicable to people only buying a pet, not a dog for a specific task. Not really disagreeing with you for the big picture, but I have to smh at people who buy just a pet.

willow-wanderings:

thehorsethief:

themotherfuckingclickerkid:

Well again, the idea that someone buying a dog from a breeder is ‘taking away a potential home’ from a shelter dog isn’t accurate. Just because someone doesn’t buy, or can’t buy, a dog from a breeder doesn’t mean that they will want or will adopt a dog from a shelter.

A lot of it is situational. People who want a pet dog have specific requirements based on where they live, their lifestyle, their energy level, how much they’re willing to groom, how much they want to exercise a dog, etc. There may not be a shelter dog in their area that fits their needs. In my city, for example, there are very few dogs available at the local shelter. They usually average 10-15 dogs at any one time. There have been times they have had no dogs available at all. That’s just my city. Other cities may be overwhelmed with adoptable dogs, and have an enormous range of dogs to choose from, giving potential adopters a greater chance of finding the dog that will fit their needs.

And I feel like it can’t be emphasized enough that people need dogs that fit their lifestyle. An older retired lady who wants a companion is not going to want a 1 year old 60 lb herding mix. A younger guy who jogs every day is probably not going to want an elderly chihuahua. Families who already have dogs, or cats, or children, will need a dog that has been socialized or can be socialized to live with dogs/cats/children. A shelter puppy with unknown parentage can be socialized to live with dogs/cats/children, but genetics could rear their ugly head when that dog grows up and turns out to be dog aggressive.

Rescue animals are fantastic. But with rescue animals there will always be some element of mystery and risk involved. Mystery breed, mystery socialization, mystery training. I’m not saying all rescues are ticking time bombs, but knowing the background of an animal can make a huge difference in taking them into your home and being prepared to care for them and meet their specific needs. If you’re prepared to take on possible health or behavioral problems with a rescue animal, that’s great! That’s what I’ve done with most of my animals. But if you are not prepared to deal with possible health or behavioral problems, if you have a lifestyle that limits itself to a specific type of dog, rescue may not be the best option for you or the rescued animal.

If you buy a dog from a responsible breeder, you’re going to know all the traits of that breed, you’re going to be able to meet the parents, you’re going to know how that puppy has been socialized and what they’ve been exposed to from day one. This can be extremely important for people who have children, who already have other pets, who want some advance knowledge about what they’re getting into and how this dog is likely to grow up.

And again – if somebody wants a pet, but they have specific requirements for that pet, and there are not rescue animals that fit those requirements, they will not rescue an animal as a pet. This is not a home being stolen from a rescue animal, because this is not a home that can handle having a rescue animal.

I mean long story short every prospective animal owner needs an animal that fits their lifestyle and their capabilities (this is how animals stay in homes instead of bouncing back to a rescue situation). Every prospective animal owner lives in a different area where their access to breeders good and bad and rescues good and bad varies. When some breeders are shitty, some rescues are shitty, some breeders are great, some rescues are great, etc etc etc, it all comes down to people being educated and taking the responsibility to find a dog that they can guarantee keeping for its whole life.

Adopting a dog because it feels good and there’s pressure to ‘adopt, don’t buy!’ means nothing if that dog makes them miserable, gets stuck in a kennel in a backyard for the rest of its life, bites another dog and ends up euthanized, or just gets dumped at the shelter again. And that’s the main reason I will never shame people into adoption over purchasing a pet, because adoption should be undertaken with the exact same amount of care, research, and commitment as buying from a breeder.

After our old dog died, my mom new the next dog had to be a small, cuddly, non-shedding, young-ish adult.

Do you know how rare that dog is in shelters?

She looked for over a year, in every shelter within 50 miles, because she has moral objections to buying dogs from breeders, and she had given up and gone to look at lab mix puppies when she saw ‘Curly’ at the shelter. Our local shelters get dogs and puppies shipped in en masse from shelters in South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, because most rescues around here (NYC area) are bully breed mixes, which don’t appeal to many.

So, Charlie, as he is know named, is a rarity. He’s small, non-shedding, cuddly, calm, friendly-great dog, right?

Except that he’s terrified of children, to the point where he was incredibly leash-aggressive towards them for months after we got him.

If we had small kids, Charlie wouldn’t have been the dog for us, and my family might have decided to buy a dog from a breeder.

It’s perfect chance that we got the lovely lil scaredy-pup that we did, and I have no ill-feelings towards anybody who decides to “shop” rather than “adopt.”

When my mom needed a dog she could train as a support/service dog for herself, we went to a breeder because we needed a young puppy with a predictable temperament and trainability. We got Chester and he was as stubborn as redhead as you ever met but he was damn smart, he learned fast, and he knew he had a job. We had him for his whole life and it was the best 18 years ever.

After Chester died, mom just wanted a buddy to snuggle, so we went to an adoption center to find somebody small and cuddly. We got Mitzy and she is the cutest little thing ever (even if she is kind of scared of the cats and runs away from them unless they’re laying down). She’s very smart but she only seems to use her smarts to steal food off peoples’ plates when no one’s looking. We don’t mind because we don’t expect her to do anything except be a dog and snuggle (which she’s great at!)

Me, I’ve got Harley and he was a stray that literally just followed me home. He saw me out walking Mitzy and liked her and they got along and when I turned around to take Mitzy back home, Harley just followed me right in the door with her and suddenly I had a dog. I love him to death but he is dumb as a box of rocks (it took me a week to teach him “sit”), he’s afraid of strange men, and doesn’t seem to like other dogs except for Mitzy (but he loves the cats and doesn’t quite get why they don’t want to play with him). He’s got loads of other issues too and I’m having to work really hard to get him trained out of them as much as I can (I can’t clip his nails if he snaps at me every time I grab his feet. It’s taken a lot of treats and belly rubs to work him down to just ‘boof’ing at me and pulling his paws away).

We’ve adopted most of our pets but that’s because all we were looking for was a pet that met fairly loose guidelines (must not be over 30lbs and must be ok with other cats/dogs). When we needed a little furry helper around the house, we had to go to a breeder because the list of “must”s was much longer and stricter. Both are perfectly valid choices for their own reasons.