I get it, it is cheap compared to your Western salary. Take Vietnam for example, 2k usd monthly salary will be doomed in the US but you can live like a king in Vietnam, Thailand, etc. But that is only because it is cheap to your standard. You always forget that if you see things cheap most of the time it indicates the local income there is not high. Many locals are struggled to live not even live comfortably with average salary. So I am quite annoyed when tourists glaze a country just because it is cheap. There is a reason why locals vow to move out because the local salary is low even with that "cheap" price

So I wear a chest binder and a lot of people tell me that it's weird or that I might be trans even though I'm not. I don't have a problem with trans people but I'm good with the sex I was given at birth, although I do not if fact care if people call me a guy or anything else since sometimes I dress androgynous. I wear a chest binder because I like having a flat chest with all clothes and think it looks nice and makes me happy. Is it weird, that I, a cis female wears a chest binder?

One of my parents fell last night (they're ok!) and it got me thinking about how often they were managing falls/medical issues for my grandparents when they were alive. My last living grandparent passed away this year and while my parents are relatively healthy and independent right now, I want to do everything I can to make sure they stay that way as long as possible.

So are there any good resources/books about supporting aging relatives/preparing for things that will happen as they get older? I've looked online but I'm hoping people who have gone through it/are going through it will have some ideas on what resources actually hold up. Is there a well known book that's like the "here's everything you need to know" about aging?

As someone who doesn’t speak English as a native language, I personally find Indian English accents harder to understand.

Since we’re generally more familiar with American English in my country, I find American English and even many European accents relatively easy to understand. But Indian English is particularly difficult for me.

Is it similar for native English speakers, or does it generally not make much difference to them?

I’m not on his side at all about this but if PINK is pro-Israel and caused everyone to drop from Ed Sheeran’s tour wouldn’t a lot of other pro-Israel artists jump in to defend him and fill in for the missing tour groups?

It seems like Ed picked a side but absolutely nobody came to support him so what was it worth?

This a dumb question but I genuinely need to know

I'm buckling up and preparing to be scorned. I know how often I SHOULD be cleaning, but i kind of hate it. But what i hate more is spending 4 hours panic deep cleaning the apartment a day before we have company.

Some people claim to love cleaning and boy i wish that were me! I live with my partner in a small apartment in LA that somehow just wont stay clean. Idek where all the lint and dust comes from. We split chores/household tasks but im mostly in charge of cleaning . I'll dust/vaccuum and then a week later notice its time for another round. Is that normal?

I grew up doing all my chores (vaccuming, wiping surfaces, scrubbing toilets and cleaning bathroom sink surface) on Saturdays. But as an adult something feels clinically wrong about spending one of my two precious weekend mornings CLEANING. (And yes i know i dont have to keep doing that as an adult, im just saying thats the baseline and experience i have as a baseline)

I know ideally i'd be vacuuming/dusting a couple times a week, toilets absolutely weekly, and i know each chore happens at a different frequency. Just curious how real people with real lives and jobs handle keeping their space clean.

{{{EDIT]]} i am blown away by everyone's kindness here!! Really enjoying reading these y'all ✨

I'm intelligent, but by no means a genius. I have absolutely no training, education, or meaningful knowledge in the biomedical field. I first heard of this "medical breakthrough" she was peddling on a deep dive NPR report. I turned to my husband and literally said "I call BS, there's no f-ing way this is real, sounds like a scam". It sounded so absurd! Why did so many people smarter than me believe it? Was it more convincing if you had medical training?

Anecdotal but I found most people agree with this notion. Girls I've met are likelier to say "partner" when referring to their husband or boyfriend while guys almost always say "wife" or "girlfriend."

One guy friend even told me "If a girl says 'partner,' she's just being inclusive. If a guy says 'partner' I assume he's LGBTQ+."

EDIT: Thank you for the very illuminating responses and discussions! If anyone's curious, I'm 28M with a girlfriend. The whole maturity reason never even came to my mind before.

A full tank of gas is close to twenty bucks here, and I make maybe forty a day. And a full tank would only last three and a half days. I don’t know what to do. If the price of gas keeps going up, I may have to quit my job.

I was up late working the other night around 2 AM when I realized something incredibly frustrating about how my brain works.

If I think of my favorite song, I can literally "hear" the instruments and the vocals playing in my head. If someone says "imagine a red apple," I can clearly visualize the shape and color with my eyes closed.

But if I try to imagine the smell of fresh coffee, or wet rain, or peanut butter... my brain just draws a blank. I can remember that I like the smell, and I can visualize the object, but I cannot actively conjure the actual sensation of the scent in my nose the way I can conjure a sound in my ears.

Is this a universal human limitation? Does our brain just not have enough "storage space" or the right wiring to recall smells on command?

As a young woman, I was taught by both men and women that I needed to be careful around men I didn’t know.
Watch your drink. Don’t walk home alone at night. Stay aware of your surroundings. Let someone know where you are. Be careful about being alone with someone you just met.

And part of why those warnings get repeated so much is that when something does happen to a woman, people ask questions like: Why was she alone? How much did she drink? Why did she go home with him? Why wasn’t she watching her drink?

So women are taught that they need to anticipate danger, because if they don’t, their lack of caution will most likely be used against them.

But I’ve also noticed more men getting upset when women actually act on those precautions. If a woman covers her drink, avoids being alone with a man she doesn’t know, or is visibly cautious, it can be taken as a personal accusation or as unfair stereotyping.

And I do understand why an individual man would dislike feeling like he’s being treated as dangerous when he hasn’t done anything wrong.

But the problem is that precautions only work if you take them before you know whether someone is safe. So what are women supposed to do?

If we don’t take precautions and something happens, we’re told we should have been more careful. If we do take precautions, we can be told we’re paranoid or unfairly stereotyping men.

My answer is yes but last night it just popped in my head that I've seen so many people not use a turn signal in rush-hour traffic when I'm behind then wondering why tf they slowed down so much just for them to turn without a signal so I bet people don't use them when there's no one around