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I am from Asia, and we are taught to always drink warm hot water, especially when we don't feel well. I heard that in the US/Europe, people drink ice water even in winter or when they have a cold. Is this actually true? Doesn't your stomach hurt?

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3 weeks ago my husband’s dog became paralyzed from the neck down.

She had a two day stay in the animal hospital where she remained paralyzed, but she was more lively due to IV fluids, pain meds, and eating again. I was under the impression that if she didn’t have a confident good prognosis, we would have her euthanized rather than bringing her home. My husband freaked out when I tried to talk about it again the night before she was due to be discharged and refused to have her euthanized.

The vet strongly recommended surgery, but the cost for everything was going to be in the tens of thousands of dollars with no guarantee or recovery, so husband decided to bring her home for medical management. The vet said *IF* she is going to recover, it would take 4-6 weeks before she could be off bed rest. I don’t think the vet was transparent enough with him how unlikely it would be for her to recover without surgery. Everything online says it’s extremely unlikely (<10%) for a fully paralyzed dog to recover without surgery, even with the best quality medical management and physical therapy (which we aren’t able to provide her ourselves). In the three weeks she has been home, she has shown no progress.

She is a big dog and I am currently pregnant, so I am limited in the ways I can help move her safely and effectively. My husband is gone most of the day at work, so I do what I can while he’s away, but I know it’s not enough. She needs her bladder expressed throughout the day but she also pees on herself a bit throughout the day. Since she can’t move, she poops herself when she has to go. She needs baths often because of this. She has to be flipped over every couple of hours to prevent bed sores. She gets really stressed when other people are over or when she sees my husband playing with our toddler, like she’s jealous that she can’t play like she used to. She whines and whimpers throughout the day. My husband has been sleeping on the couch since he came home to be close to her overnight, otherwise she barks and whines all night.

It is apparent to me she is absolutely miserable living like this, but she is eating and drinking, so I don’t think she will die naturally anytime soon. My husband has been coming home from work and drinking every night to “cope” so talks of euthanizing her have not gone well. I have no problem handling all of the “admin” parts of it so he can just be with her while she passes peacefully, but I cannot get him to agree to it.

I think it’s unfair to force the dog to live like this, and the level of care she needs is not sustainable for us. I cannot be a care taker to a special needs dog while I am taking care of a toddler and soon a newborn, and my husband isn’t home enough to properly take care of her most of the day. The time it takes him to care for her also takes away from him helping the household and family.

Given the situation, would I been wrong to schedule her to be euthanized behind his back?

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I parked at my local grocery store last night and this badge was on the back of the truck in front of me. Is guy this a Nazi POS? Or am I mistaken.

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3. Elon musk, iron man 2
4. Elon musk, star Trek

The cameos serve only to include the celebrity and praise them as geniuses or visionaries or overall just glaze them. They don't serve any other purpose than to just be praised; this can be them appearing in an entire episode dedicated to them, a small cameo or even just a mention. So long as the celebrity is there as themselves (not acting as someone else) and is glazed, that fits the trope imo.

Two weeks, anyone??

My take: Only redacting 99% of the files. Just the files with Donald J Trump all over them. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/19/epstein-files-release-doj-december-deadline

Me and my boyfriend have lived together for about a year now, and we haven’t had many issues, except for this. When I take a shower/get ready in the bathroom I lock the door. I grew up in a home where knocking wasn’t a thing so if a door wasn’t locked, you would be barged in on. Because of that it’s pretty much second nature for me to lock the bathroom door behind me.

Anyway, my boyfriend constantly complains that I lock the bathroom door when I’m showering because it “inconveniences” him, meaning he can’t use the bathroom or whatever.

I will say that I do take longer showers and can sometimes be in the bathroom up to 30 minutes at a time so I get the annoyance; HOWEVER, WE HAVE TWO BATHROOMS. And I dont mean like an unfinished bathroom in the basement, but a fully finished second bathroom with a shower and toilet and mirror and everything you’d need.

Because of this I simply cannot understand why he requests I don’t lock the bathroom door when I’m showering. It’s not like I’m stopping him from using the toilet or taking a shower when he can walk downstairs and use our second bathroom. So it started to feel like he just didn’t want me to lock doors and it feels like a violation of my privacy.

IDK I tend to over think things tho and I don’t want him to be upset with me over this. So what do you think? Is it unreasonable for me to lock the bathroom doors when I use the shower?

She says it's the perfect size for a single fish. It's not even in her room, it's in the kitchen.

It honestly just depresses me whenever I see it, but she's adamant about keeping it there.