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Lana Del Rey says her Bond theme was turned down
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‘Deny, denounce, delay’: the battle over the risk of ultra-processed foods
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These autonomous drones can recharge themselves from power lines
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Icelanders are famously hardy, but after volcanic eruptions cracked open twenty-metre-deep fissures in Grindavík, residents are asking if they'll ever be allowed back home
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Eastern Air Lines | Bankrupt
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The future starts in South Africa
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MIT astronomers observe elusive stellar light surrounding ancient quasars
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Randy Travis sings again, courtesy of AI
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Why is there a tiny bit of Italy inside Switzerland?
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Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets
This is the place for casual discussion about our pets. Photos are welcome, show us your pet(s) and tell us about them!
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Czech Republic produced a three-goal second period as it downed Sweden 7-3 and advanced to the final of the 2024 IIHF World Championship
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I wet the bed late into my teens and I have no idea why
So I continued to wet the bed way past 7 and I have no idea why. different family members chalked it up to different reason: I am lazy I am a very deep sleeper I have a very anxious personality...
So I continued to wet the bed way past 7 and I have no idea why.
different family members chalked it up to different reason:
- I am lazy
- I am a very deep sleeper
- I have a very anxious personality
- bladder issues
Amongst other things.
One thing I can see being a cause was that I was not raised in a peaceful household. It was a very violent household. not in the sense of physical violence like broken arms and such, more as in lots of yelling and screaming and things like that. My family really didn't know how to communicate well.
But I was not the only child raised in my household and I was the only one who wet the bed.
Anyways, different thing were tried, things to supposedly "fix" my bladder. shaming, etc. Growing up, my family had to always wake me up at around 4 or 5 am and take me to the bathroom, otherwise there was a good chance I'd wet the bed.
I personally was getting worried that it was a problem I'd have forever and it'd be an impediment to my social life (as in no sleepovers and etc (not that I had had friends at that age anyways)).
But I did start to notice that once I got into high school, it started happening less and less. Still did happen, but just wasn't as common. Then, I remember the last time it happened was when I was either in grade 10 or 11 but I am pretty sure grade 10.
Then that was it.
It just stopped on its own.
Weird thing is, I changed nothing about myself.
I'd still classify myself as lazy and a very deep sleeper and I still have an incredibly anxious personality.
The only thing that changed is that when I am asleep, and as my bladder is filling up, something in my bladder (or my brain) instead of just releasing, would instead block the urine until I wake up in pain and go to the bathroom. The change really caught my attention when I woke up with a really full bladder like 2-3 years ago and I remembered how a little over 10 years ago (I am in my 30s), no way my body would've reacted to it by holding it in involuntarily until I woke up.
I tried doing a bit of googling to figure out what parts of the body are involved in the process of holding in one's pee overnight to try and see what are the possible reasons for the change to occur so late in me to no avail.
I am forever curious what happened in my body to make that change happen so late but not sure I will ever know.
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Cannes Film Festival: ‘Anora’ wins Palme d’Or
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Congo names third American in a foiled coup plot as mourners gather in Utah to remember plot leader
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It is the spiciest rivalry in track and field. After months of trash talking and bravado, Britain's Josh Kerr and Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen face off for the first time in 2024.
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The history of Tetris world records
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The Canterbury Tales, or, how technology changes the way we speak
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I made the world's blackest flipbook
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"&udm=14" strips AI junk from Google results
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Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
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Return to Senua: Hellblade's Melina Juergens on reprising a role she never thought she'd play
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Reddit shares soar 14% after company reports revenue pop in debut earnings report
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Dota 2 7.36
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Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of May 13
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant Israel-Hamas war content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant Israel-Hamas war content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
Please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis.
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Weighing in on "Man or Bear" - from a woman that left society to the Alaskan wilderness
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Inside the peculiar world of Farming Simulator eSports
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Carbon pricing works, meta-review finds
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Rabbit gaslit me, so I dug deeper
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Pacific Highway trip from San Francisco to San Diego on a motorcycle
Hi friends! I know part of the Pacific Highway are broken right now, but I was just wondering if there was any tips/places to stop at on a trip from San Fran to San Diego that I'm planning on next...
Hi friends!
I know part of the Pacific Highway are broken right now, but I was just wondering if there was any tips/places to stop at on a trip from San Fran to San Diego that I'm planning on next month. (More specifically for a motorcycle trip, which comes with it's own interesting routes and stuff)
I've always wanted to do the journey, so me and a friend are planning on going from SF -> LA over 2 days, and I'm planning on taking the bike down to SD after staying in LA for a couple of days by myself afterwards!
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
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Rubbing your eyes is way more harmful than you think
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Alaskan rivers are turning orange
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Emigre typography and graphic design magazine (1984–2005)
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California solar installs down for 2024, but battery installs up
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SEC opens door for US Spot-Ether ETFs in landmark for crypto
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Scarlett Johansson says she is 'shocked, angered' over new ChatGPT voice
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What did you do this week (and weekend)?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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US Department of Justice could seek break up of Live Nation-Ticketmaster, Bloomberg News reports
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This American Civil War submarine vanished for 136 years
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League of Legends eSports welcomes Faker to the Hall of Legends
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Extracting interpretable features from Claude 3 Sonnet
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Waddi, a virtual tour guide, uses artificial intelligence to answer visitor queries and engage in conversations on the Danish island of Fanø
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Who gets paid? How much? What to know about the landmark NCAA settlement.
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Housing market predictions
Wife and I are going through the home buying process in what most people would call a low cost of living area. For reference, homes are about 180-400k where I live in New York State. I heard the...
Wife and I are going through the home buying process in what most people would call a low cost of living area. For reference, homes are about 180-400k where I live in New York State.
I heard the horror stories but I had no idea how bad the issue is. I'll get to that in a minute.
I am curious what's going to happen with housing. Because on one hand, it seems like it's going to continue to rise until there is genuinely no such thing as middle-class home ownership. On the other hand, I see some troubling signs that remind me of a bubble.
The housing market will continue to be unaffordable
-I keep hearing that it's a supply issue. That we need to double the number of houses for things to get better. I also hear this isn't happening and that immigration is a factor. Sounds like a dog whistle but I'm curious if there is any truth to this.-Other developed nations are worse. Many have 40-50 year mortgages and some countries even have multi-generational mortgages. This shows that it could get worse.
-Companies and wealthy individuals trying to make us all rent forever. Of course they would like nothing more and they'll probably keep working on this.
The current market is not sustainable
-There is a feeding frenzy on every single home that goes for sale in my area. Total shit boxes with sagging roofs are selling no problem and way above asking.
-The bank approved my wife and I for way too much money. We have student loans and daycare costs. The amount they approved us for would absolutely put us in the negatives every month. I thought that wasn't supposed to happen anymore. It feels strange and reckless for the banks to do that. For reference, we make about 100k/year combined but student loans and childcare take up a significant chunk of that. They approved us for $300k to get a home. We could get a $2400/mo* mortgage, which immediately wipes out 50% of our take-home pay. We ran a budget and even avoiding any purchases that aren't literal necessities, we would be running a deficit every month. We could never buy a shirt, a baby toy, a makeup product, a movie ticket, or even a pair of shoes and we would still be in the negative. Nevermind what would happen if one of our very modest, very used vehicles needed to be replaced or repaired. Obviously we didn't bid anything near 300k on any home. Wife's mom offered to front some inheritance money (give my wife some money now and then just leave the inheritance to her sister to make up for it) and we weren't even close still.
-When did a married nurse and teacher become completely priced out of the market? Is that a sign of a normal and healthy market? Now, to be fair, my wife could increase her salary if she wanted to go back to working in the emergency room. She doesn't want to do that while we have a baby at home and I understand that completely. But you would think we would be able to afford something.
I am clearly speaking from a position of relative privilege here. I recognize that. I grew up in a foreclosed and auctioned home that was old and small. My parents moved to an economically depressed town to get that house because they had no money and no help. There was no "borrowing a few grand from an inheritance" for them and if my wife wasn't in the picture that would never be an option for me either. I think my wife and I are doing a lot better than many other people in this area. What are couples who work at Amazon doing? Just saying fuck it and renting forever?
Anyway, I'm half venting and half asking. What is the actual endgame here for Americans? What happens next?
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America must face reality and prioritise China over Europe
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Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news
Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like winamp, pfas and baking. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was bamboozled. But...
Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like winamp, pfas and baking. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was bamboozled.
But one of my favourite tags happens to be offbeat! Taking its original inspiration from Sir Nils Olav III, this thread is looking for any far-fetched
offbeat
stories lurking in the newspapers. It may not deserve its own post, but it deserves a wider audience!6 votes -
Kabosu, the beloved Shiba-Inu behind the Doge meme, passes away at 18
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Logan the Wolf: A Wolverine fan film
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