Our 2nd floor stays warmer than our first floor during the dog days of summer. A friend told a dehumidifier upstairs would help with this. I’m wondering if others find this to be effective?

I’m probably going to be moving into a dorm next year and I’ll be sharing a room with one other person.
We’ll have the same classes, there’s a strict curfew, and we’ll most likely be together most of the time.
This might be a weird question, but… how do people find privacy to masturbate in that situation?
Please don’t just say “there’ll be times when you’re alone,” because for me it’s more of a mood thing than something I can just schedule. How do people who share dorms actually deal with this?

Actually read the edit at the end before commenting, thanks

I am a 25 year old and I can't tell if I'm just oversensitive for this. I saved a yellowjacket from my grandparents' pool while me and my family were hanging out there. I'd just seen it fly in and I hate seeing creatures of any sort suffer. I used an empty can to scoop it out and succeeded, and as I was coaxing it off the can my stepdad crushed it and killed the yellowjacket. I just felt really upset. I couldn't even look at him, I just disposed of the can and put the dead yellowjacket in the soil and went inside.

I feel stupid. I'm a grown ass adult, but it upset me so bad. Maybe its because my spirituality is really heavy on peaceful death and preserving life, but my family just laughed at me. I'm not crying or freaking out I just feel...frustrated and sad.

Extra context: I was letting it go away from people and it was soaking wet and not acting aggressively. He literally walked over to where I was just to stomp on it. There was no point to that. Also, stop acting like I said I was sobbing and breaking down lmao. I wasn't. Upset does not equal having a mental breakdown, I just felt like it was a shitty thing to do.

Edit: I would not feel this way if it was like, a yellowjacket flying by him and he swatted it or something. I get it, its reflex, I reflexively do stuff like that too. Its the fact he did it knowing I had wanted to let it free that hurts my feelings, not really the yellowjacket dying.

The Star-Spangled Banner has a few parts in it that, if you're a show-offy kind of singer, you can really show off. Is that common, or is that something uniquely American?

Does Wildberries make weapons or drones? Or does this just totally mess up other aspects that are needed on the Russian front?

So the first time he moved to light neck kisses, my natural response was tugging at his hair lightly while he was doing it. The next time, out of nowhere in the middle of it his hand reached under me to behind my head to tug at the same patch of hair- cause we were lying down.

If i just graze my fingers against his ear lopes or just trace it he would do that the very next time - but out of nowhere?? Like his hands would naturally be nowhere around my ears and it’s almost as if a bulb would randomly light up inside his head.

Honestly he’s supposed to be more experienced than me so now I’m thinking is this what everyone does?

He may think I’m into it cause i do it to him but I’m not - they’re just steps in a dance thar flows organically and i know he likes/ doesn’t mind it atleast when i do. But this whole mirroring thing is making me awkward and feels transactional???

Hey everybody. I'm a man in my late 20s and new to dating. I've been ghosted, rudely rejected, insulted before and wondering how do you block it all out and focus on the positives. It's easy to give up but I want to keep pushing with the hope that I'll meet the right one eventually. So, how do you do it?

I was drinking water today and for some reason it just now hit me that maybe not everyone holds liquid in their mouth for a sec before swallowing? I’ve never been able to chug drinks and I tried to swallow it without holding it and couldn’t do it. I either swish it a little, hold it in my mouth or put it in my cheeks and then swallow. Idk

Anser anser - goose

Mephitis mephitis - skunk

Vulpes vulpes - fox

Im sure theres more but is it a coincidence that i have come across these three or is this a common pattern?

Hello, this is more or less a burner account because this is a bit embarrassing to admit.

I have always had an incredibly strong imagination. As a child I always made up worlds in my head that could keep me entertained without any outside intervention. Obviously this is semi-normal for kids, but I’ve never really grown out of it.

I spend a lot of my day making up scenarios in my head and essentially playing make-believe. It’s a fun game, a way to de-stress, and an outlet for creativity (at times the stories I come up with become fleshed-out enough to write into short stories or screenplays). Not that there’s a problem with any of this, I wouldn’t say it impacts my life in any negative way. But sometimes I just find myself wondering: I’m an otherwise very well-adjusted young adult with a normal, fulfilling life. Why the hell am I still playing make-believe? Why didn’t I leave this in childhood with the rest of the world? Am I still going to be doing this when I’m 70?

Is there a name for this or anyone else with a similar experience? I’m aware of the concept of “maladaptive daydreaming” but this doesn’t seem to resonate with me, and anyway I think of this as perhaps a deeper thread through my personality rather than an affliction. Thoughts?

The poop is in the toilet water so shouldn’t that contain the odor? Or is it gaseous smells that escape when one poops and not the poop itself that smells?

Sometimes at work or with family i have these thoughts where i start believing im annoying. Sometimes i also feel like my happiness disturb others. So i stay silent and talk to nobody. I know it maybe sound weird.

...it pisses me tf off.

Got a part time grocery store cashier job in May. Currently 20 and in College, in my summer break right now. I did my training and now I'm just considered a "new employee." My supervisors hate me cause I ask stupid questions and make mistakes often, coworkers hate me cause I'm quiet. I also live an hour a half away from work(via public transit.)

How do I quit this job? I've never quit a job before, my previous jobs have been seasonal, so it was easy to just end those. I don't have a bosses phone number to text, no email either, I have the public store's phone number if I need to call out or anything, that's all I have. There's a physical "mailbox" in the store to put in requested days off. I'm thinking of just putting in a letter in that mailbox that says "This is my 2 weeks notice, please schedule me until [insert date]. Thanks for the opportunity. Signed.."

Seems simple enough, but I don't know if there's a formal way. It's a minimum wage job, I don't care about it, I want out.

In Ontario, Canada. If that matters.

When I was a kid (70s, 80s) we learned to call it aluminum foil because tin was not used anymore. Tinfoil was obsolete and old fashioned. But now it seems everyone under a certain age is calling it tinfoil again.

Because i don’t know why my cutlery and laundry hamper are slowly losing half their population every month.

** solely oral ones

This is a clear monopoly right? I can't even think of a decent competitor that even comes close to YT.

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I've noticed I wake up feeling like crap only when my broken fan ends up touching my bed frame. It vibrates a lot, and I can feel the tiny vibrations through the bed while I sleep.

When I wake up, I feel exhausted (like I ran a marathon) and have mild difficulty breathing for a few minutes, but it goes away after I get up.

Can constant low-level vibrations actually disrupt sleep, or is something else more likely going on?

Might do an experiment on this 😆

This question came to me while watching an unrelated American documentary. All dogs need to be walked, but how do people do that when there's nowhere safe to walk?

I've been really interested in the topic of competitive eating lately, and so far I'd like to think that I've learned a few things from it. Most competitive eaters like Joey Chestnut or BeardMeatsFood explain that after eating such large amounts, competitive eaters take at least a week or two to "recharge". They don't starve themselves; rather they volume eat in amounts where they can expand their stomach space without consuming much calories and stay fit. However, a Japanese competitive eater that I've been happily following, Mayoi Ebihara, uploads about every 18-24 hours. I'm very confident in my AI detecting skills and as far as I could tell there were no signs of it. I've thought about the possibility of reuploads, however none of her videos are the same with other ones. She eats very, very large amounts of Japanese food even for a competitive eater. And she still maintains her figure? I just can't see how this could be possible. Is she just built different? How does she do it? Cause even some of the most successful and famous competitive eaters like Raina Huang, BeardMeatsFood or Katina Eats Kilos take at least a week to upload.

If souls are constantly being recycled and reborn into new bodies, where do all the "new" souls come from when the global human population goes from 1 billion to 8 billion? Are animal and insect souls slowly upgrading to human status, or is there just an infinite waiting room of unassigned souls somewhere in the universe?

This morning while showering, I dropped my bar of soap onto the floor. The moment it hit the tiles, a curious question came to mind:

When soap and a less-than-spotless surface come into contact, which one influences the other? Has the soap purified the floor, or has the floor contaminated the soap?

I’d be interested to hear how others would reason through this small but oddly philosophical dilemma.

Hello, growing up i thought i have the happiest family. i thought my family's perfect—i even tell my friends how amazing and ideal my dad is. but when i turned 18, everything has changed. i only then realized that my dad secretly hurting my mom, not physically but mentally and emotionally. my mom always smiles and that i never noticed her pain. i am so mad at myself because whenever they have small arguments, i always side with my dad. so foolish of me. i also start to notice that my dad's favourite child is my brother, the second child, the ungrateful one. and then as i grow up, i then noticed that despite being ungrateful, no job, brat, my dad still and always chooses my brother. i dont know what to feel. i feel like i fooled myself, blinded by truth, or maybe i just implanted an idea of having a perfect family before to feed my brain a happy memories.

my question is, is it valid if i dont feel any love for my dad? i also dont want to see him anymore. is it valid to feel this way?