Hey guys,
After taking a blood test requested by my doctor I found out that my testosterone levels are low. Long story short I had the option to live with it or try Testosterone replacement therapy. My doctor advised I start at a low dose of 100 mg weekly via intramuscular injection (having to pin myself at home once a week). So like a responsible adult I sourced a local government‑paid program that offers clean syringes and sharps containers to keep people safe (mostly drug users). Me and my wife and kids have been renting a house with her father and stepmom. Which I mean for the most part has been pretty okay. Her step mom is a bitch but we keep the peace and try to conduct ourselves in a respectful manner to save the drama.

Anyways to my dismay, my mother‑in‑law found out about my new prescription as well as the method of which I have to administer it. I was pretty uncomfortable with sharing it with anyone but my wife but somehow she overheard some stuff and now is making a big deal about me having needles in the house and how it’s disgusting and how she doesn’t want them around even though I’ve taken all the extra steps to keep everything clean and safe. So I told her “what if I was diabetic and had to give myself insulin” to which she replies “That’s disgusting, I would die.” Am I the asshole or is she being as unreasonable as I feel she is. I feel like it’s either suffer with an imbalance or please the old hag.

If anyone hasn’t watched Stranger Things and is planning to, this thread contains spoilers.
Stranger Things Season 1 had just hit the streaming services, and the hype was building. A couple of us were chatting about it at work when Mary—who had just joined the conversation—wanted to know what we were talking about. I told her about the show, raved about how much I was enjoying it, and recommended she give it a shot. She thanked me and said she’d watch it over the weekend.

Mary, by the way, was a pretty weird and annoying person. She held a handful of odd opinions, and she was never wrong. Debating her was like a math problem in a universe where the answer was always “yes.” She also had a temper and would snap over the tiniest things, turning the workplace into a mood‑swamp.

Monday came, and Mary was angry as ever. She cornered me in the breakroom and demanded to know why I’d recommend such a “disgusting” TV show to her. I asked her what was wrong, and she launched into a tirade.

She started talking about the episode where Barb gets taken into the Upside Down. According to Mary, it “utterly traumatized” her because she could’t stop picturing her own daughter in that situation. She wagged her finger and yelled, “I’m a mother! Why did you recommend that show to a mother?? I couldn’t sleep all night thinking about what that poor girl went through!” She then lectured me: “When you have a child, you won’t want anyone recommending things like that to you. So you need to think things through more carefully in the future.” I wasn’t about to tolerate her nonsense, so I rolled my eyes and walked away. She brought it up to other coworkers all day, repeating how “shaken” she was.

It’s worth noting that Mary has a son as well, but she didn’t seem to care about Will Byers in the same way she cared about Barb.

What product is an obvious scam that people still fall for?

When Reddit users get together to brag about the most ludicrous consumer scams, the conversation usually goes from "I bought a $200 watch that turns into a toaster" to "I spent $50 on a product that doesn't actually exist." The latest thread asks the deceptively simple question: What product is an obvious scam that people still fall for? The comments that followed were a delightful mash‑up of culinary nostalgia and pseudo‑science, with a side of tragic health drama. Here’s the full scoop.

I created a burner account just to post this because he knows my Reddit.

We’re both mid‑20s. We’ve been together for 3.5 years, living together for 1. I’m a bartender and work 3‑4 evenings a week, he works a normal M‑F schedule. We make roughly the same amount and split everything 50/50, but I do work less hours than him.

Monday is my grocery day. We agreed when I moved in that I would do the shopping since I can go when it’s not as busy. We have a shared note on our phones where he can add things to our list.

The arrangement was fine for a while, but I started to get annoyed a few months ago. The whole process of shopping, self‑checkout, loading into car, unloading, and putting it all away takes at least 2 hours. Not to mention emptying the old stuff out of the fridge and pantry. I almost always have to take out the trash too.

It wouldn’t be as bad if I didn’t feel he was unappreciative. He gets to open an app and write down requests, then I do all the work. He comes home to a stocked kitchen and pays the same amount as I do. When I’ve brought this up, he thinks it’s only fair since I “work less.”

Today, I had enough. The store was packed due to Thanksgiving. I texted him that they were out of something he wanted and he said to “look harder.” The fridge was full of leftover containers he never revisited or threw away. I texted him that from now on, he’s paying more than half or we’re shopping together on Sundays (our common day off that he says is for resting).

He thinks I’m an asshole for this, I disagree. I may work less but I am no housewife. We split everything down the middle. Isn’t it only fair that I’m compensated for doing all of the shopping every week? The only part that I believe may make me TA is that I agreed to this arrangement. But that was a year ago, and I’m burnt out.

AITA for saying I want to be paid more than half for groceries?

“I’m an experienced chess player, playing this game for as long as I can remember, probably since I was 4 or 5 years old. My extended family loved chess, so I grew up in an environment where I could very easily learn and practice it. My current rating is 1950+.”

“My girlfriend is at a lower intermediate level. She learned chess from me during the lockdown, but then took a long break. She started playing regularly a couple of months ago. She mostly plays online against opponents at her level, but she plays with me almost daily on a physical board. The problem (for her) is, I always win.”

“When she was a beginner, I used to give her wins and tips to help her build the concepts, but now I don’t do that. I believe she should play fairly now, and chess is a game that requires focus, time, and mental effort. Playing it just to give away wins seems too much.”

“However, she gets mildly annoyed. Yesterday, when I was clearly winning, she flipped the board in anger. It wasn’t as a joke, she was serious. This really pissed me, felt disrespected. So I boldly told her to better stick to online play until she starts accepting losses like an adult and handles the game maturely.”

“AITA she got upset”

TL;DR: Senators are now debating whether Congress should get paid to not pay the rest of the country, while the public wonders if the only thing that can be shut down is the government or their own patience.

The Reddit Post​

"What do you think of Senator John Kennedy's act proposal to take away Congress pay during government shutdowns? I mean, if Congress can’t pay their own, maybe they should learn to budget the rest of the country too!"

I have a coworker that eats everything all the time. Whenever they bring us lunch he is the first in line and stacks his plate with no regard. Before he started we had a snack drawer with snacks we bought and stated it was open to everyone who forgot to bring lunch as long as they contributed to the snack drawer but he would eat all of our snacks and never replace them. This has gotten so out of hand that we started to put our snacks in our own private drawers but other coworkers have let us know that they have caught him taking snacks out of our drawers on days where we weren’t there. Whenever we order lunch he always asks if we can pay for him and he will pay us back on pay day but he never does. I feel bad for him but he does bring himself a lunch daily, he also comes in with breakfast. It’s become such an issue that we don’t even keep snacks in the office anymore. We want to bring it up to our managers but it seems like such a non issue that we aren’t sure what to do, what should we do?

Edit: the greediness isn’t even the biggest problem with him, he smells so bad.

I am named after a cheese.

ETA: For everyone guessing, I don't want to dox myself, so I'll just say it rhymes with Morgonzola.

I have a coworker who’s only been with us for about six months, but she’s really leaning into this “respect me, I’m an ex‑Marine, and I have a title” attitude. She’s older and has been bullying the younger coworkers, acting like everyone should respect her and follow her “invisible authority.” She’s a cashier here, not in a big position, but still expects to be invited to everything, even when it’s a mass email to the whole company. She gets upset if we turn down her offers to “help” in departments that don’t need it. Lately, she’s been telling anyone who will listen that no one respects her because she’s older than most of us, but honestly, she’s brought it on herself by pushing people around and making demands.

The Dalai Lama will die soon because of old age. What do you think China will do when that happens? Why?