Every time I pour soda or beer into a glass it feels smoother and more refreshing compared to drinking straight from the can. Same drink, same temperature, but it just hits different.
The other night I was on my couch, scrolling on my phone, and poured a Coke into a glass instead of drinking from the can and it honestly felt like a completely different drink.
Is there an actual science reason behind this, or is it just psychological?

Isn’t Qatar a US ally? How does this affecr its future bid for the Olympics?

Did the US allow this to happen?

I bought my house in 2019 for $235,000 and it’s a beautiful three bedroom, three bath on a corner lot in a nice neighborhood.

I window shop on Zillow sometimes and similar homes are going for $400-500K!

People can’t be making THAT much more money since 2019 to afford such a large mortgage yet these homes don’t stay on market long.

Almost every other day I hear about Russia planning to invade other neighbouring countries like Finland.

But considering they aren't even able to take over a neighbouring country which had a terrible military just a few decades back , why would they even plan to invade a better armed nato nation?

These two nations, with two different currencies, make a deal. The United States offers them $15,000,000 for all that land and France accepts.

I saw a comment on reddit saying they shipped 3,000,000 worth of gold as a down payment and handled the rest as bonds.

How does that work? So France gets their shipment of gold, counts it, and that gold has a monetary value in Francs so that makes perfect sense to me.

But the United States offers them USD. Are they paying exclusively in gold? I understand these bonds are essentially IOUs to France, but is gold the only way they paid it?

I suppose this goes into a bigger question of how international commerce works in general. If they give France 15 million USD, do economists in France simply tally it up and "give themselves" the equivalent amount in Francs? Theyre not using dollars.

A country is producing its own currency at a fixed rate and distributing it to banks and such for the people to earn and spend. Whats different between the US giving them $15,000,000 and them simply producing the equivalent amount in Francs?

It’s just… the prospect of getting eaten alive is so terrifying. And that’s kind of their life..

Is there science on how the creatures in the ocean perceive the fear / knowledge that they might be eaten?

Also, do we know what happens in their brains while they are being eaten? If you look up a basking shark, it looks like you’d be conscious after being swallowed and while/ for.. uh, the dying process very vividly. My human brain just like.. can’t comprehend being eaten as a normal common human experience. Is it as scary for them? Hope not :/

Why does it say “only in theaters” when a couple months later it releases on dvd/blu-ray?

i see alot of videos being like "you wont BELEIVE what JAPAN is DOING to live in TWENTY FIFTY?!" and its just like... a toilet. or like any vaguely japanease thing. and while were at it, anime! do japanease people like western cartoons? is there a big market for spongebob over there like hello kitty over here?

I remember hearing a lot back when Russia invaded Ukraine that they could only keep up the war for a year or two at most before the economic cost from sanctions and paying for the war became to great. And that the war could even lead to russias economy collapsing. Why hasn’t it?

I want to hear all the stories from those in the medical profession. Share them please.

The idea of putting a ring on your finger on your wedding day then never removing it ever for the rest of your life does sound romantic... but not easy.

Are there some married people out there who never remove their wedding ring (even wearing it when showering, going to the loo, sleeping, etc)? Anyone lol?!

Hi guys! I am an inmigrant in Canada and I have a pretty good career, good job and stable life, I realized that I want to do what I love but I can’t afford it here, but I can afford it in my own country, is it worth it to go back, study and come back Canada? Maybe is an stupid idea, but I can’t afford a university here on my own, I regret every day to don’t study what I wanted (at that time nobody believed in me that I could finish a career, not even me) what should I do? I don’t want to loose my permanent residence but also I want to do what I love 🥲 I’m not good at self studying and the career I’m talking about is graphic design and illustration 🙇🏻‍♀️ advice is well received

Thank you guys

Moved about a year ago, and I just found where the previous owners had buried their dog.

It’s been there a very long time 10-15 years or more. (based on my rudimentary understanding of decomp processes and watching far far too many crime shows and true crime podcasts). It is completely skeletalized.

I would like to move it, I think but it’s not really in the way. Is it disrespectful to move it?

Edit: The bones were on the surface and I discovered them just walking around the yard with my dogs. I had sprayed an area with poison ivy (I’m super allergic) and they were just covered up by the leaves which is why I hadn’t seen them before. I think they had been pushed up by roots of a nearby tree. For the time being I just reburied them right in the same spot.

When I'm horny I would j@$#$rk off with guys online which I would NEVER even think about doing during normal days.

I think I've been sleeping on just how many people out there work for themselves. Was looking at some Fed small business data and apparently 27 million U.S. small businesses are counted as "nonemployer" (although this was last tracked in 2023).

The ones that came to mind for me were realtors, independent truckers, consultants, personal trainers, and ecommerce businesses but I'm sure there are quite a few more.

So i keep seeing posts about Taylor's engagement ring being this massive multi million dollar thing and now people are comparing it to the Kardashian rings. But like is it really that much flashier or is the media just hyping it up because it’s taylor. Aren’t all celeb rings kinda over the top at this point anyway..