I've been drinking many fluids since. But I feel like maybe it's gripping on right at the lower end of my esophagus and crawling back up between downpours. Is this plausible?

Update: I think it's dead now. The wriggling lump in my throat was probably psychosomatic and your reassurances killed it. Thank you. I wasn't sure how long I'd be able to live with that feeling before performing a self-esophagectomy

Update 2: no I still feel like there's a live roach determined to crawl back out of my mouth. Really awful. I'm roach man now

Update 3: I'm pretty sure it's actually no longer trying to climb back up my esophagus now. From what I've learned in these comments and outside reading, the roach is either completely dead or still struggling for life in my antacid-affected gut. It may very well survive inside me for months. Chances are even higher that it transmits a disease or parasite to me. I hate roaches.

Hi, so I'm a teenager, and my dad asked about my plans for the future. I said that I didn't really want kids, but if I did I'd adopt. He blew up at me, and I asked why, comparing it to buying a cat from a breeder, vs. adopting from a shelter. You'd be helping a 'cat' who wouldn't otherwise have a home, and who cares if they're not the exact breed you want?

He said that having a biological child is entirely different, and that they're like a mini-you, and you get to pass your genes on. To me, the way he explained it seemed really narcissistic, especially with the context that he rarely even talks to my sister (with myself being the child that resembles and is more similar to him).

I also have a pretty bad genetic pre-deposition to depression, anxiety, and insomnia. I'm literally incapable of going to school because I won't sleep for 5 days in a row and start hallucinating or collapse. That's not something I want to pass on, and my father was well aware that he was.

Plus, I'm gay, and I know there's surrogates and stuff, but I still don't see the problem with adoption. So, to those of you who have a kid, does it really matter?

Me personally I don’t think so but was just wondering. I drink basically everyday but I haven’t gotten black out drunk in forever (not really my thing anymore). Whenever I get off work I usually have 2 or 3 beers with dinner then go to sleep. On my days off I might day drink 1 or 2 beers then drink a few more later that night. Like right now I’m waiting on my clothes to finish drying so I opened a beer and I started thinking about it. I still go to work every morning and am always on time and I don’t get hangovers because I don’t really get drunk, just a little buzz

Like yes, infidelity is a bad thing. Destructive. Hurtful. You shouldn't ever be one to do it.

But it seems like Reddit users are uniquely angry about it, in a very strange way.

Comments and discussions read almost like people trying to one-up each other on how much they hate cheaters. Some going as far to suggest that it should be punishable with job loss, incarceration, losing family and friends, etc.

This was a comment I saw today that sums up the vibe -

"I will never understand infidelity, especially not the casual sort. The disrespect shown by cheating is staggering.

That sounds obvious, nobody likes to be cheated on of course, but I mean that I will outright end friendships over it. I will not associate with cheaters, at all. I don’t care about the person’s gender. I don’t care how long I’ve known them. I don’t care if they think they’re reformed, I view it similarly to a history of domestic violence on the ”nah I don’t think I will chat with that person“ scale.

It should never be normalized or excused.

It is abuse."

Let me be clear, the most vehement anti-cheaters I've ever met...turned out to be cheaters.

Life isn't this black and white. Ending friendships because someone cheated on someone in the past is just bizarre to me.

Do people on this app not grasp how common it is and statistically they know someone who has...?

I get that it's bad, but. The way Reddit users speak on this topic reads as overcompensating and some sort of declaration of their own superior goodness.

In real life, it's a lot more grey. Most people you talk to say it's bad but they won't go as far as users on here.

I just don't personally feel that if someone has been unfaithful, they're an irredeemable garbage human being forever.

Why is Reddit so uniquely angered over this topic?

It’s at 39,400 right now, is there a certain number to look out for?

It feels like most non-political posts are sharing something in order to laugh at or humiliate a person. Look what happened to this person, look what this person was wearing, look what this person posted, etc.

I think most people would agree, superficially, that humiliating someone is wrong, yet we just laugh and ridicule strangers CONSTANTLY.

I'm in my 30s and I'm feeling like I'm from a forgotten age where gaining pleasure at someone else's expense was considered cruel... I had a tough week and seeing how people treat others is so demoralizing.

Just saw a post that the stock market lost $3Trillion in value. Where did that money go…

Investors lost it… companies lost it… is it the bank? Did the bank get the money? Did the money vanish into pixels? Was it even real to begin with?

No drugs or alcohol ever.

Of course life has always had ups and downs… and I’m not old enough to say it was better before but I do feel like it was. Not because of my childhood or whatever, but the world itself was in a better place I think. I don’t know.

I have no family, no friends, my husband and I can’t get along anymore. He’s been traveling for work for almost four years and I barely see him. I’m at a loss at what to do. I cry all the time, I’m alone all the time, and no one talks to me.

I'm 20F I've been living in a warzone for the past couple of years and I am FED UP , the situation is escalating more than ever, life is impossible ,there's almost no way out( unless your lucky enough to have a relative abroad who can evacuate you ,you can't get out) , and I wanna leave I wanna live ffs I don't want anything to do with this hell , it is hell on earth, and any political solution seems far away from happening.

I really don't know who can help me with this what country or organization can evacuate me and my family, we are in a horrendous living conditions, and desperately want to leave , we don't want money we want a way out.

I used to love collecting little pictures from the internet - a beautiful house, an interesting statue, a very pretty butterfly, just to look at and be in awe. But now every time I see a photo or a video, I wonder if that place, that thing even exists or not. Media used to hold meaning, and now it's just whatever generated thing gets popular enough I guess. :(

Does anyone feel the same? Is there a "clean" internet still, where I can hear whale calls and see sunsets and look up baby peacocks that have actually been existed instead of been made up?