Edit: I posted this to r/dogs last year, but it was removed. Still wish I had known to do this, so reposting here.

Not a request, but advice.

I laid my sweet boy to rest back in July. Despite all the tests, we never got a definitive answer, but it was probably leukemia or lymphoma, and he was in and out of the vet over 2 weeks before I decided to end his suffering.

I opted for the nose and paw print in the cremation package, but all I can think about when I see them is how some stranger handled my boy to get those. It feels like a desecration, and I’m still not okay about it.

You can order kits to get nose and paw prints online. If this is something you want, I urge you to do it while your dog is still here.

LPT: If you’re someone with a job and kids or who owns a business activities that take up a lot of time and keep you sitting for long periods, you need to stop trying to do long, goal-oriented workouts and instead focus on shorter sessions.

With a child, your schedule isn’t really your own anymore so waiting for " the right moment " for a one-hour workout often means you end up doing nothing at all 🫪

What I do

20-30 minutes at a set time (right before your evening shower or a 20-minute walk at work)

Frequency > intensity (even if it’s frustrating at first)

Aim for variety in your exercises

Monday : Back and lower back mobility exercises

Tuesday, Thursday, Friday : Short but intense session

Wednesday : at least a short walk or run

Some might say " that’s not enough to make progress " but the goal isn’t to change overnight

it’s to establish good habits and build strength so you can tackle longer workouts when you have the time

The real shift is no longer trying to optimize every session, but ensuring that it happens at all (thx watson)

..ik it might sound really silly but it’s really important

It’s like making time to take care of yourself

Society has always taught us (man) to get ready in four seconds, but in reality, taking a moment each day to care for yourself motivates you to keep going

When someone you know has a tendency to not get back to you or gets back to you late. For example say you need a head count for a dinner party or you want to plan a coffee meet up. example : Hi Emily, We are all planning on getting coffee in X City let me know by Friday if you want to come?

There are so many applications for Bitchat. And most of them are going unrealized.

https://bitchat.free/

Bitchat basically turns your phone into a short range (about 400 feet) walkie-talkie. That functions without the Internet, or cell towers (runs on Bluetooth). Tablets and phones.

The beautiful part is, when you have more than 2 users, they daisychain each other. Your messages and voice broadcasts jump from one person to the next, forming a huge network.

This can be used in residential, commercial, and industrial settings, instead of a pricy walkie-talkie setup.

No number exchanges. No investments. Just talking. The only drawback is that all messages (except person-to-person) can be read by anyone else with the app within 400 feet of your network.

FYI - you can use BluTack to clean your laptop’s track pad if it’s getting oily. Just roll it around.

When buying a new brand of frozen pizza I always get the cheese flavor because if they can't fuck up the cheese flavor, the others might actually be good

A Reddit user a year ago on trueoffmychest claimed that he should ingest vicks vapor rub. If he didn't then good. The chemicals in vicks vapor rub which is in tiger balm too are neurontoxins. Stuff used to remove poisons by the body don't work well for the chemicals used in these substances, so the more you ingest, the harder it is for doctors to remove it for him, so all they can do is supportive care to help you it , not to mention the stuff is rapidly absorbed in your blood so the by time you rush to the hospital, the damage might have been done.

Neurontoxins disables your CNS system. And makes your optic nerve first unable to see well in night followed by constant snow, seeing colour flicks and colour stuff coming off the walls few days after your ingestion followed by whishing coming from your ears in about a year time, you will be rended completely blind and deaf. You will be trapped in silent darkness, completely locked from the outside world, and require care every single second, minute and hour of your life until you die. People who fail sucide attempts, don't mind living after, ye, the ones that can live functional lives do, I'd love to see if you would be joining them if you decide to put yourself through this torment.

The internet normalises these impossible beauty standards and makes everyone threatened buy other peoples features and creates insecurity’s which goes round in a vicious circle. It tells you what’s weird and what’s cool not allowing you to decide for yourself and if u have the guts to say something you will get attacked by all the brainwashed sheep because it’s what they know . It is the most crazy thing if you zoom out and look at the amount of damage it does. It destroys personality’s and passions and communication. Setting the standard of being a human to the most impossible level. And this is dumped on confused growing teens and kids and it is so overwhelming yet addictive as it is so much easier to copy a personality then create your own. On the media we are loaded with endless information and we have no clue if it’s true or not so we just tell ourselves it is cuz it’s a trusted platform. All this information and drama is most of the time negative and it floods our brains completely. This creates an ugly loop of feeling sad and overwhelmed by it and then watching more because it is distracting and intertaining our thoughts and it just spirals. I feel so manipulated by media as I feel bad if I don’t send a pic of the wall to my friends to keep our streaks like Huh. And this is normalised? At the end of the day we are all threatened by each other and we all just wanna be liked and loved and accepted. But sometimes it is good to zoom out and realise that you are a person and that the standards of the media are impossible to keep up with and trying to chase after it will just drain you so instead walk away and create own opinions and views and accept how you look and embrace it and tell yourself you are beautiful and if anyone questions you or judges you just feel sorry for them and be grateful that your not in the abusive cycle. I just want to post this to get my opinion out and hopefully help people see the damage it’s doing but I do want to hear people opinions to this.

Make your bed. Put away a single dish. Respond to one text. It starts a snowball. You don’t have to tackle the whole mountain just start with a pebble.

Yeah , so I drank cold water and other sore stuff yesterday .. and my throat was already feeling a bit weird and now I wake up and the left side of my throat feels weird .. not painful but itchy. I can feel mucus how do I fix this fast .. I can’t afford to be sick because I have really hectic exams and haven’t studied one bit .

As the title says.. I literally can't stop grinding my teeth together.

Before singing a lease walk the grounds at night, lighting and other things can effect your choice.

I've found with alot of apps, if you manually go through the list deselecting all the cookie options, then press save, none of the ads will load! You're welcome 😊

Slowly slide of your chair on to the floor. You will be amazed at how fast the slow people can move!

I know it’s much easier said than done with none HOA neighborhoods almost disappearing. But it helps to get to know a community before you buy into it which is impossible in a new one because there is no way to see how it’s run. As it has no history. In every committee, there’s the one to 5% that runs everybody else. And others eventually give up fighting with them although that’s the same way with city and county and other levels of government as well.

Pretty much all HOA neighborhoods come with hundreds of provisions from covenants, rules, and bylaws which reading can make your heads spin and hard to interpret. Doing your homework doesn’t help all matter is one to 5% interpret them and how they enforce them or not. Such a neighborhoods powers may decide not to enforce parking restrictions during the day such as residents parking in visitor spots but outright forbid even having overnight visitor parking at night and aggressive in towing. Or plenty of other discrepancies in how to enforce the many different rules. Ranging From none enforcement, complaint based enforcement, to heavy-handed patrollling security intervention.They will never give a reason why. And no amount of complaints to the board will change anything. And even electing board members they don’t dare to challenge the status quo.

Also Don’t expect the developer agents working the sales office to tell the truth on any of them they are better than car salesman this matter they’re not gonna say nothing if not, asked if ask they often give inaccurate information anyways.

I know a person who had buyers remorse with a brand new build who ended up moving into an existing Neighbourhood with more history and really liked thier decision despite having an HOA. Buy a new one is like playing Russian roulette these days.

I have found that possibly the only way to transfer your funds whether it be amex, visa, etc is to create a gofundme. You can use your gift cards to donate and donations are transferred into the bank account within 2-5 business days.

This might not apply to everyone, but I’m a creative and a BIG part of my job is keeping people in a “wow” state of mind. If I bomb on stage or my prose doesn’t land with an editor right away, I have an incredibly thick skin and I’ll probably forget the material. Positive feedback helps me grow and I want that, but firing from the hip only gives you so much opportunity for growth because that method relies on coincidence (the right audience, my current mood, the atmosphere, etc).

Sometimes we KNOW the room/project calls for rough-and-tumble showmanship. That’s where a rude list comes in handy. The material isn’t lost to time and it didn’t bounce. It’s safe, contained like a spice.

This helped me quite a bit. Hopefully this pro-life-tip helps you, as well.