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She comes in about 2 week ago. She's shy quiet she refuses kibble for 2 days i talk to my friend learn her regular kibble and feed her wet food+homemade food to the best of my ability until i get the food. İ got it 3 days ago she hasn't eaten a bite. She refuses kibble begs waits for me to eat and roam for crumbs. She's hungry. İ know that she's very clear about that she just refuses her kibble. I've even added chicken broth. Her stomach is a dent at this point and she pooped a very small piece but she doesn't eat. She holds on because she thinks if she holds on she's gonna get some chicken heart some wet food but I'm standing firm making sure she has ker kibble and nothing else to nibble on so she starts to eat. My friend says she ate that shit. She liked it. She's clearly holding on in hopes of "better" food. Don't get me wrong I'd love to feed her homemade food but i have no money for that and she's not mine I'm just fostering for my sister and i know for sure my sister can't feed homemade food as she has two left hands in the kitchen and she's a right handed. So the dog needs to eat the kibble but i also feel horrible because i can literally see how hungry she is. İdk what to do.
Os: don't say mix kibble with wet food. I've tried that this b word sucks the wet food off off the kibble and spits it out 🤦‍♀️

I got a puppy recently, and, being a puppy, he's not potty trained. I'm working on it, but in the meantime, I want to get a cage so I can sleep without him peeing on the carpet.
My question is, when I do this, can I put his food and water in the cage? I want to do this because I want to make sure he still has access to food and water even at night.
The thing I'm concerned about is if this will negatively affect his eating/drinking habits. I know dogs don't like cages, so I don't know if he'd be more reluctant to go in the cage for food or water.

Hi all! Just hoping to get some advice. I have a senior dog who takes medication for seniors. In summer 2021, we moved across state, and as such, had to leave his former vet that we absolutely loved and find a new vet in our new city. First vet we tried wasn't great, and after pulling tooth and nail to get them to call in his prescription, we ended up at his current vet. I absolutely loved them at first, but recently, not so much.
The issues started this month. My dog was experiencing some digestive issues and so I needed to make a sick pet appointment to get him checked out. They couldn't get us in for two weeks (prior to this, they would literally get you in the next day if your pet was sick). He has a history of digestive issues and his former vet prescribed us a powder to place in his food when he had flare-ups. New vet wouldn't do that until trying something else and running over $1,000 in tests. Thankfully, the third thing they tried and the last resort before running the tests worked.
My biggest issue, though, has to do with his blood work. Since he is a senior dog and is taking medicine that can affect his liver and kidneys, he has to get annual blood work – one to check his phenobarbital levels and another generalized senior lab blood work that checks his kidneys, liver, etc. He get this done two weeks ago. Vet said it would take a few days to get the results. They called on Saturday, and I missed the call. Called back 20 minutes later and the vet was no longer there and I was told to call Monday. I called Monday and was told the vet had it on her schedule to call me that afternoon. Never got the call. Didn't call Tuesday or Wednesday either. So I called back yesterday and since the vet didn't leave any notes on the results, the receptionist couldn't tell if everything was ok or if there was something wrong. Said the vet would call me that same day. I still have not received a call.
If this was you and your dog, would you switch vets? I really liked this vet up until now. I'm not sure if it's just this particular doctor, whom we'd never seen before, or if it's just a sign of an overall change at the vet office. I've been sitting here for nearly a week worried about my dog's blood work and despite my many attempts to speak with a vet, have yet to hear back.

Hey! I’m coming from out of state for the blue jays series next weekend and was hoping to get some recommendations for the best food at the stadium. Btw, no 2 foot long hot dogs or burgers lol. Thanks in advance!

Obviously it’s probably difficult to gauge how good it is as every dogs tailored recipe is gonna be different but just looking to see if anyone uses it and do they recommend it before I make the jump. I filled out my boys questionnaire and I did like how high in protein his tailored food would be as he is a very muscular high energy dog so a recipe with lots of meat and high in protein is important for us. Also because I could pick his favourite meats it would be mostly lamb and fish which would be great as any food with that he loves and never gets bored of!
I was more just curious is the meat and veggies high quality? We’d still be giving him raw toppers every now and then especially after days that include lots of running and swimming.

I’m reposting this comment here from one of my other posts in case you don’t know these people:
Oh lord. Buckle your seat belt cause this is a wild ride. So this couple named Eathan and Susan Broxson (@realeathansusan and @.eathannsusan) got millions of followers on TikTok. Here is a list of the craziness:
-Would promise shout outs/duets for gifts during lives and then not do them.
-Developed close relationships with fans and would then text them and beg for money.
-Started an illegal raffle where people would pay to get in, do a 50/50 pot, they kept half the money.
-Used their “fame” to beg for money when they got evicted out of their apartment.
-Also, cried saying “God wants you to help us” and raised a couple grand from fans so Eathan could put a down payment on a new truck (which he didn’t get but kept the money)
-Susan got caught writing cold checks from a woman she was “caring for” that had dementia.
-Admitted to leaving dogs outside during a hurricane.
-Susan hits their dog Nacho on live stream.
-Again, begging fans with money to give them money to pay for a hotel room, which they turned into a vacation for their family.
-Susan begins to sell ItWorks and other MLM schemes that started charging people for things they didn’t buy (little suspicious there Susie) and then refused to refund the money and say it wasn’t possible.
-Buy new clothes/shoes/purses etc and then resell it on fb for a markup
-Used money sent to them to eat out and get Starbucks, then complain they can’t pay their bills and ask for more money.
-Called their fans derogatory names when they wouldn’t give them money.
-Started a “Pay it Forward/Venmo Challenge” project where fans would send in money and they would use it to “bless” a waitress. However, they were also using the money to pay for their meals and keeping some of the funds raised for themselves. This was discovered as they would be inconsistent with their stories saying they raised $800 that week, but would then post about leaving only a $650 tip.
-Even Perez Hilton investigated and talked about their scams to raise awareness in an attempt to get their platform removed.
And I could seriouslyyyyy keep on going. I want to remind everyone that they were stealing and begging money from literal children. Basically would do anything to avoid working and having a real job. If you look up the hashtag #eathannsusan (which has over 31million views) you will see how shitty they are.

TW: Please skip if you're not an animal lover
I have been feeding two stray dogs near my flat for about a year now. Both of them seemed young and very active, and I am assuming they're neutered coz they have chipped ears. Recently, one of the dogs has become very lethargic and stopped eating. I tried different foods but she refuses to eat anything. Mostly sleeps all day.
The other dog is active and playful as usual and eating properly. But sometimes when she gets up from sitting, I notice bit of blood on the ground.
I am concerned but not sure what to do. Anyone has any connections with volunteers from CUPA/Charlie's who can give advice?

With the news that development of Adventure Mode for the Steam release is progressing along, I figure some people may want to download the original version to give it a try ahead of the graphics update. As someone with hundreds of hours in adventure mode (there are literally dozens of us!) I thought I would share some of the biggest tips and tricks I've learned. I'll probably be making this into a video once the official release is out and I can get footage with graphics, but until then I'm posting the script I have now here. The rest of this post contains spoilers for every phase of adventure mode, so turn back now if you want to discover all of this for yourself!
Beginner

1. Always have food

-Large stacks of vegetables can be found in containers in human towns. Meat can be gathered from butchered animals. Meat from sentient creatures can’t be eaten.

2. Always have wateale 

-Adventurers need to drink 3-4 times a day. Water skin only holds 3 water, so it is useless. Bags hold 40 and Backpacks hold 100 which is too heavy for most adventurers. Quivers hold 20, which is the perfect amount. Fill quivers with water at rivers or wells.

3. Equip armor 

-Armor and weapons can be found in the barracks of each town. Try to get iron or steel if possible. Make sure to cover the head, neck, torso, legs, hands, and feet.

4. Get a mount 

-Mounts increase overworld speed which increases the amount of ground that can be covered in one day. This reduces how frequently you need to stop for supplies.

5. Get some pets 

-Companions can be tricky to recruit in the beginning, but pets are a great way to increase survivability. Unlike companions, you can also recruit a very high number of pets immediately. Everything labeled “stray” found within a town can become a pet, from ducks to dogs, and rarely even bears and elephants. Just don’t get too attached, most pets die very fast, or permanently run away after combat. Especially the small ones.

6. Make sure your character can read and swim 

-Most skills can be acquired organically by actions which your adventurer does, but certain skills like reading are never unlocked. Because you need to read slabs or books to learn magic, putting a point in reading at character creation is mandatory. A few points in swimming are also recommended. Even a single tile full of water is enough to drown an adventurer with no swimming skill.

7. Make a young world for less necromancers and more Megabeasts, and an old world for vice-versa 

-World parameters matter. Evil is slightly stronger on average, which means the older a world is, the more likely it is to be infested with Necromancer towers and Goblin Pits. Savagery is just the number of animal people to play as, and beasts is the number of beasts to fight. You want both of these as high as possible, the difficulty is actually easier with more beasts, as you won’t have to travel as far for missions.

8. Don’t be afraid to run if you can’t win 

-Although this is technically a turn based RPG, running away isn’t a button you press, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t an option. If you are heavily outnumbered or facing a very strong enemy, don’t be afraid to sprint away and reengage when it is more advantageous to do so. This is better than dying and losing your progress.

9. Don’t swim until you’ve really trained 

-While it may be tempting to take a quick dip in the river, death can be moments away in any body of water. Even at competent and above levels of swimming, your character can only go about 10-20 squares before getting tired, and swimming while tired has a chance to keep your character in the same tile, further increasing their fatigue. This can mean your character drowning even just one square from the shore if you are extremely unlucky.

10. Aim for the neck/head for instant kills 

-Aiming in combat can be extremely beneficial. Lots of minor enemies such as kobolds and bandits can be killed with one solid hit to the neck or head. Using this tactic can make encounters against large groups of enemies much easier.
Intermediate

11. Fast travel to long rest 

-If you are damaged in battle and bleeding out, even if you are faint with mortal wounds, fast traveling via the world map will instantly heal your wounds. This may be considered a bug, but since adventurers cannot currently be healed at hospitals via adventure mode, this is the only way to actually heal. Furthermore, since you can’t fast travel during combat, and because fast traveling doesn’t remove major injuries such as missing limbs, I’d say it’s a pretty balanced feature.

12. Jog whenever possible 

-Whenever not mounted and not in combat, you should set your speed to jog. This will increase your endurance stat naturally over time, increasing your combat prowess while you move around. Just be sure to reset your speed whenever your character drops to the ground from exhaustion to give them a chance to rest. Keep extra water on hand while doing this, as your character will need to drink more. And make sure not to jog into combat, this will increase your character’s chance of becoming exhausted during combat, which severely lowers stats.

13. Create a character that just wants to perform 

-A focused character will always be more proficient in combat, receiving a boost to stats such as accuracy and damage. Fully customizing needs in character creation can make a character that is very easy to keep focused. You can completely remove needs in character creation if you wish, but this will also remove the chance to receive the focused buff. If anything, just be sure to avoid needs that are currently impossible in adventure mode such as “Make romance.”

14. Create a world with legendary metals for better loot 

-The more metals you choose at world generation, the better the loot will be everywhere. This setting can make gearing up in the early game either extremely trivial, or extremely challenging. World age can also affect possible loot, as extremely young worlds will not have created enough armor to make most encounters have meaningful loot.

15. Tell stories of your notable kills 

-Information in dwarf fortress is passed via a rumor system. No matter how many dragons you may slay, when you enter a new town, no one will care because they don’t know who you are. Every time you reach a new town, you should tell the largest group of people you can the stories of every notable encounter you’ve had. Early on you should tell stories of killing bandits, while later on you should focus on just semi-Megabeasts and Megabeasts.

16. Recruit other party members 

-While animal companions are good choices for meat shields early game, you should recruit as many fighters at barracks to adventure with you as possible. The amount of companions you can have at any one time is limited by your current reputation level, which is why it is important to tell everyone you can of your notable kills. Animal companions take up companion slots even though they go over the max cap, so try to transition from lots of animals early on to a small party of adventuring companions in the midgame, and a large number of companions in the endgame. Just be sure to let your companions win some easy battles on their own to level up their skills, otherwise they will die just as easily as animals in fights against Megabeasts. Don’t be surprised if some of your companions get terrified in combat and run away just like animals. If you can, be sure to find them, as they will take up a companion slot if you don’t part ways with them or watch them die. If they die and you don’t see it, they may permanently take up a slot this way. This is a bug and will hopefully be fixed eventually, but be wary of it for now.

17. Become a hearthperson 

-Starting a new character and trying to find quests can be very challenging. Lots of random characters will have various rumors, but won’t know enough details to send you on a proper quest. Lords and ladies however can make you into a hearthperson, and can then give you proper quests. They will only do this if you have enough reputation level though, which is why telling stories is important. Usually it takes a story of a bandit leader kill or higher to get a lord or lady to recruit you. You can bypass this stage and get to quests right away by choosing to start as a hearthperson. Just beware that quests are randomized, and sometimes your first quest will be to kill a megabeast. When this happens, I recommend traveling to another town and becoming hearthperson there.

18. Train your skills early 

-Training skills via active combat can be very deadly. If possible, try to fight large, easy enemies to train all related combat skills as early as possible. If you find a horse for example, you can attack its legs to immobilize it, then spam nonlethal strikes to train your weapon skill. A couple horses with no legs is a brutal but safe way to train up weapons all the way to legendary.

19. Set combat preferences to facilitate training 

-Skills like observation and stats like endurance are very important for late game combat. These skills in particular can be trained incredibly fast with combat preferences. If you set melee combat preferences to close quarters, this will prefer to grapple the enemy over and over again. This means you can move into the enemy repeatedly to quickly train without navigating menus. Doing this without changing preferences can mean your character automatically makes a headshot and kills the enemy before you get the chance to properly level up stats. Just be sure to move away from your legless horses if you get tired, as the lowered stats means that even low risk combat can result in injury.

20. Sneak up to enemies for stealth kills 

-If you want to dispatch of large camps quickly and efficiently, chaining stealth kills can be an easy way to do this. Just press S to toggle sneaking, then try to approach enemies without walking into their cone of vision. Doing this at night can be especially effective, as enemies have greatly reduced perception.
Advanced

21. Get a slashing, piercing, and blunt weapon 

-Some enemies in dwarf fortress are much easier to kill than others. Kobolds and crundles will crumple against most weapons, while things like bronze collosi are much harder to deal with. A good rule of thumb is to keep a slashing, piercing, and blunt weapon on hands at all times. Use slashing against basic targets and undead for quick decapitations, piercing against large organic creatures like giant cheetahs or rocs so that they give into pain (essentially stunlocking them), and blunt against inorganic enemies to crush them (collosi, armored titans, iron men, etc). When in doubt, keep a whip on hand to one shot most enemies. A legendary lasher with a named masterwork whip can easily one shot most things in the game with a heavy attack to the head. This should be considered a bug that will probably be fixed later, but is very fun if you want to RP as a legendary vampire killer. Regardless of weapon choice, weapon skill is equally important. A novice hammer dwarf with a steel war hammer is just as useless against a bronze colossus as a legendary axedwarf with an artifact copper battle axe.

22. Remove your backpack when starting combat 

-Fighting while overencumbered is a death sentence. While fighting above default speed does not reduce the number of frames it takes to swing your weapon, fighting below default speed will add a delay after each swing before you can act again, giving enemies free strikes against you. This is also why fighting prone is ill-advised. However, this mechanic should not dissuade you from overencumbering yourself. Most mounts negate a large (if not all) amount of encumberance. In addition, your character can move anything they can grab, even if it is the entire corpse of a megabeast which weighs multiple tons, it will just take them more frames to haul these items. So long as you store all of your loot in the same backpack, you are always safe from ambushes no matter your encumbrance, as you can remove and drop your backpack as soon as combat starts, which usually takes less frames than it takes for any enemy to move. After combat, your backpack should be where you left it, and you can easily retrieve your haul.

23. Aim for the legs first, then the hands, then the neck 

Aiming for the neck can make weaker enemies trivial, but more proficient enemies will not allow this tactic, and very large enemies will have necks too large to decapitate. An advanced tactic that works against most strong enemies is to aim for the legs first to knock your enemy prone (or wings against flying enemies). Once your enemy is on the ground, their speed is halved, essentially giving you twice as many turns to attack. It is at this point you should aim for their arms, as these hold weapons for humanoids and usually have claws for beasts. Once the legs are taken out and the usage of weapons is disabled, you are much more likely to land a headshot, and in a much safer position to repeatedly spam this attack.

24. Bleed out megabeasts, cut off hydra heads, pummel collosi 

Certain enemies such as Megabeasts are much harder to kill. These should be considered boss fights, and thus have certain kill parameters. Bronze collosi in particular usually need to have every single body part destroyed in order to be killed. Hydras in turn need to have the brain of each head destroyed to die, and will almost always live if one head is alive. Hill titans can vary from nigh unkillable (humanoids made of steel) to killable via literally any damaging attack (blobs made of water), so reading their description is extremely important in dealing with them.

25. Never get hit (level dodge and block) 

-Because major injuries are unhealable, these accumulate over time. This means that the best way to play adventure mode is to never get hit. This may seem like a tall task, but almost all damage is avoidable via dodge and block. If you have a high observation stat, you will be able to dodge or block attacks. While this may automatically succeed against weaker enemies, it has a chance to fail against stronger enemies if not properly leveled, so be sure to train these skills early on. Fighting when focused and not exhausted should ensure that these avoidance abilities work properly. Just don’t try to block an attack you wouldn’t block in real life.

26. Don’t let enemies get a surround 

-Fighting against multiple enemies can be a likely death scenario. If enemies completely surround you, then your character has a greatly reduced chance of automatically dodging or blocking attacks. In addition, moving through an occupied tile in dwarf fortress will roll a die, and the losers will be forced prone, as only one creature can stand in a tile at once. Make sure to set speed to scramble in combat if this happens, get to an unoccupied square, and stand up as quickly as possible. Dodging into an open space in this scenario is a much better option than moving manually if at all possible. This entire scenario can be avoided if you slowly dodge in the same direction as enemies approach you in combat, ensuring that you only fight one at a time, and force the others to tire themselves as they run after you. Striking the legs of as many targets as possible is effective here, as it drastically increases the time it takes for each enemy to reach you.

27. Throw stones to level archery 

-Archery can be very cumbersome to use, as most bolts are too heavy to use without causing constant encumbrance, and training it is very slow and painful, as arrows usually split into stacks of one when fired. However, there is a way to level archery extremely quickly. By throwing something at the same tile you are on, you level your archery skill. You can then pick up the thrown object and throw it again. This is much faster than using arrows. One of the best objects to do this with is coins. As it turns out, coins are actually the best ranged weapon. Coins can be used in combat to great affect. Because dwarf fortress uses the archery stat when throwing items, it calculates the damage of thrown items as if shot from a bow with the same archery proficiency. While this does not do nearly as much damage as bolts themselves, it effectively gives adventurers a way to reliably use ranged weapons without worrying about retrieving ammo, as money can usually be found in multiple stacks of 100 at bandit camps.

28. Use archery against webs/fire 

-While archery is a niche weapon type for most scenarios, it is mandatory against certain titans and most dragons, as well as giant cave spiders. Titans, like spiders can possess the ability to web your adventurer. This stunlocks your character, making any shot a guaranteed hit. Against large enough titans, getting hit with a single shot of web is enough for instant death, as they will squish your head while webbed. Other titans may possess deadly dust or poisonous gas. While some of these effects are benign, breathing others can and will kill your character, and to my knowledge not even fast travel stops this. Fighting fire breathing dragons is an instant kill scenario as well, as they can melt your armor into molten liquid metal, stunlocking your character until they die from the heat. You can attempt to repeatedly jump until you reach a river, but you are certainly dead at this point. The use of archery (or rather, throwing coins) is mandatory at this point. While a few shots may not do anything at first, repeated shots will accumulate damage, and eventually kill or disable the enemy. Just be very careful getting into melee range to finish enemies off after this occurs, as one unlucky web or fire shot can and will still kill you. Avoid looting titans with dust or gas effects until after you leave and return to the area with fast travel to be sure that the gas dissipates.

29. Know the game progression (Kobolds, Bandits, Hearthperson, Semi-Megabeasts, Towers, Megabeasts, Dark Fortresses, Caverns) 

Knowing what you’re doing at any given point can be the difference between life and death. If you’re playing adventure mode without savescumming (which is the only way to play it in the old versions), then you will be making new characters a lot. Knowing the basic progression of where you should go on new characters will make the ultimate goal of raiding the vault and fighting the angel that much easier. Your basic path should be gearing up in towns, training basic combat skills against animals, fighting kobold and bandit camps to level reputation, telling stories to become a hearthperson, doing quests as a hearthperson to further reputation level and combat skills, fighting semimega and Megabeasts to become a legendary hero, raiding towers to find the secrets, raiding dark fortresses to find the vault and slay the angel, and finally using the secrets to delve into the caverns without having to eat or sleep and fighting forgotten beasts there until your character dies. The surface and visiting towns should be considered the early game, raiding sites should be considered the midgame, killing the angel in the vault should be considered the endgame, and roaming the caverns should be considered the postgame. Of course, adventure mode has lots more to offer than just combat, and if you want to learn its ins and outs for yourself, the only way to do that is to jump in and play it.

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Hello, dear customers and friends alike!! Today Hassaj has an interesting tale to share with you all today.
It started when Hassaj stepped foot into Markarth after a long journey from Whiterun, Hassaj already got issues from the guards, they started asking if Hassaj was with the Khajiit caravans and if Hassaj was selling Skooma and Moonsugar, it was a redundant question, of course Hassaj is with a caravan and sells Skooma and Moonsugar, but I lied and played innocent, Hassaj still had to pay a small bribe to get in, though.
After getting into the city Hassaj began setting up his business, Hassaj decided to put his headquarters in some old abandoned house (it smelt awful) and began preparing Skooma and Moonsugar spiked drinks and foods.
Hassaj found it easy to find customers, Guards, Commoners and some nobility, the gold was flowing into Hassaj's coffers and business was doing great!
On Hassaj's 5th month there a tragedy struck, the damn Reachroaches attacked my Caravan that was supplying me Moonsugar! Hassaj thought that would be the worst of it but Hassaj was wrong (a rare occurrence). The Reachroaches began attacking anybody on the roads going in or out of the city and the guards were terrible at fighting those pests (Hassaj must admit some of it may have been his fault with the Skooma but that's besides the point). After a couple weeks Markarth sent out an SOS letter to Solitude for aid, it took a few tries but finally a courier survived the trip. Solitude sent a large force to wipe out the pests and with combined forces of Markarth and Solitude they were able to beat the Reachroaches into hiding, I though that would be the end of Hassaj's troubles but Hassaj was swift to find out that Solitude was going to station guards in Markarth and enforce the law!!! Hassaj tried to keep his business hidden but the Solitude dogs started looking around for the source of the Skooma and they found my headquarters!! They instantly pinned it on Hassaj (racially profiled by the way) so Hassaj had to take all his gold and some of his supplies and run!! Hassaj barely escaped the guards but was able to reach the outskirts of the reach and rejoin his caravan! As we were exiting the reach Hassaj and his caravan saw something gut wrenching, it was the Reachroach hideout! We saw the Reachroaches turning into roaches!! Their body's contorted from human to a massive roach! It was such a hideous and gruesome process that Hassaj can't even describe it without puking! But now Hassaj knows the truth, Reachroaches are truly Roaches of the Reach.
Thank you friends and customers for reading this tale of Hassaj's trip to Markarth!!
Please buy Hassaj's Moonsugar and Skooma!!
Contact Hassaj in Elsweyr if you need employment!! (Hassaj only hires Khajiit, lesser races are not trustworthy and should be discriminated against at all times unless they buy Khajiit products, then they should just be seen as second class)
Written 4E257 by Hassaj-Dar in Elsweyr

Background info: We've (27F and 28M) been together 5 years, and married for 3 years. No kids and no plans for them, but we have 1 dog that I brought to the relationship (and I care for the majority of the time). We both work full time. We have similar commutes (theirs is ~10 mins longer each way), but I am able to telework 1-2 days/week, depending on what I have going on. We each deposit 40% of our paychecks into a joint account for household bills, the other 60% goes into our personal accounts.
Since we got married and both started working full time, I've found myself taking on more and more of the household duties. Now it feels like I'm the one that is doing all the work for our shared life. I plan and cook all the meals (sometimes, partner will say "X" sounds good). I also do the majority of lawncare, laundry, and housecleaning. I am also responsible for taking out the trash, including cleaning bad food out of the fridge.
A typical day goes like this: we wake up at the same time. Partner starts getting ready for work; I let the dog out and start cooking breakfast for us. Partner leaves for work; I rush to get ready for my job. We both work 8 hours (which ends up being 8.5 hrs for me and 9 hrs for them because their work requires 1 hour lunch break). I get home ~30 mins before my partner, so I start preparing dinner (note: I almost always cook from scratch; these are not frozen, pre-made meals). After we eat dinner, my partner will go sit on the couch and watch TV to unwind/decompress while I put away leftovers, including putting portions away for lunches, and clean up the kitchen. What happens after that depends on the day. Sometimes I will mow the lawn, other times I will clean around the house or start laundry. It feels extra maddening because they have the energy to chat on the phone with family and shop online (which creates a lot of trash from the boxes and packaging that I usually end up having to breakdown and throw away or else the rubbish just accumulates in piles around the house).
On the off chance I convince my partner to help, they complain and blame me when it's a difficult task or if they can't find the right supplies.
Overall, I feel extremely burnt out and more like a caretaker than a partner in an adult relationship. It's very sad to me because early in our relationship, I felt like they were eager to show me love in the ways I enjoy (i.e., thoughtful gifts and quality time). Now I don't really get either of those. I feel lucky to get a genuine thank you.
I am expected to sacrifice and sacrifice, but there's a stunning lack of reciprocity. Maybe I just grew up in a household where we all pitched in to help one another, so the concept of asking someone to carry their weight feels odd. I'm not sure how to approach the conversation. To make matters worse, a few weeks ago they basically told me they were disappointed in our sex life and I don't "excite" them anymore. While they didn't want to divorce based on that, they said they were "grieving" something they didn't realize they would have to miss out on in a relationship with their life partner.
TL;DR my partner has stopped contributing to household duties without being told to help and said they are unhappy with our sex life. I am getting very burnt out, sad, and self esteem is in the gutter. Would I be wrong to issue an ultimatum that they either help me or I won't be cooking/cleaning for them anymore?

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• Paraphilias075

Israeli scientists gave an artificial molecule they invented to 30 mice suffering from Alzheimer’s — and found that all of them recovered, regaining full cognitive abilities.
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• unsw

Stress combined with calorie-dense ‘comfort’ food creates changes in the brain that drive more eating, boost cravings for sweet, highly palatable food, and lead to excess weight gain - mouse study
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• maxkozlov

Scientists waste millions of dollars in time making papers fit journal guidelines. The high cost of ‘reformatting’ prompts a call for journals to change their requirements.
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space

• upyoars

Scientists demonstrate wireless power transmission from space to Earth for first time
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• SharonJYoung

Boeing sued for allegedly stealing intellectual property related to NASA's Artemis moon rocket
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• volossaveroniki

NASA Invites Public to Sign Poem That Will Fly Aboard Europa Clipper
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Futurology

• Zee2A

This startup is zapping seawater to tackle climate change. Equatic’s technology that takes CO2 out of the air & water and produces hydrogen fuel in the process simulatenously.
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• Glittering-Fudge3343

German carmaker Mercedes-Benz becomes the first carmaker to receive authorization to sell or lease cars with an automated driving system to the public in California.
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• M337ING

Wind and solar overtake fossil generation in the EU
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AskReddit

• Repulsive_Compote955

Servers at restaurants, what's the strangest thing someone's asked for?
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• Touristupdatenola

What are your thoughts on Pat Robertson's demise?
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• Critical_Tea_7079

What did people love 50 years ago, still love today, and will definitely love 50 years from now?
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todayilearned

• Pfeffer_Prinz

TIL 91% of all the dives to the bottom of the Mariana Trench occurred in the past 4 years. Before that, the only visitors were the original explorers in 1960, and James Cameron in 2012.
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• derstherower

TIL that when planning Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg wanted Arnold Toht to be a cyborg, with a metal arm that could turn into a flamethrower or machine gun, and have a light instead of an eye. George Lucas rejected these ideas as too far-fetched.
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• ClownfishSoup

TIL that Technicolor movies were filmed on three rolls of film with the image split using a prism into three color images. Each film roll was then developed and dyed a complimentary primary color and then the three rolls were laminated together to create a full color roll of film
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dataisbeautiful

• Dremarious

[OC] The Highest Grossing Movie Directors of All-time
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• latinometrics

[OC] 🇩🇴 The Dominican Republic, a country 175x smaller than Brazil, is now witnessing a surprising trend - it's drawing double the number of tourists than South America's three largest countries - Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia.
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• EngagingData

[OC] A round-trip flight from New York to San Francisco produces more emissions per passenger than the annual per capita emissions of 66 different countries and half of the allowable 2030 global emissions per capita if we want to achieve 2 degree stabilization
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Cooking

• Iwanttobefree42

I can't roast chickpeas, what am I doing wrong?
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• trumpean

Why cook aromatics before protein?
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• KatKatKatKat88

How can I level up my salmon?
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food

• Wasted-_-Time

[homemade] pop tarts
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• diet2thewind

[Homemade] Filet mignon, hasselback potato, grilled asparagus
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• oceansoflove_

[homemade] cinnamon rolls
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movies

• Chemical-Ad-2694

Brand New Official ‘Ghostbusters’ Logo Teases a Winter-Themed ‘Afterlife’ Sequel
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• Worth-Price9141

30 Years Ago, ‘Jurassic Park’ Unleashed a Doomed Love Affair With Dinosaurs
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• indig0sixalpha

The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart Official Trailer Warner Bros. Ent
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Art

• IanYan7

"Lurking in Dungeon", Ian Yan (me), 3D, 2023
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• Ipsenate

Two Satyrs, Peter Paul Rubens, oil on canvas,1618.
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• lovetheflower

Underwater world, lovetheflower, wood/resin, 2022
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television

• Neo2199

Fox News Tells Tucker Carlson He Violated His Contract With New Twitter Show
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• indig0sixalpha

Warrior Season 3 Official Trailer Max
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• MarvelsGrantMan136

The Venture Bros: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart Official Trailer July 25
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pics

• k14w

View from my kitchen window this morning
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• adamchain

A photo from 1987, showing police dog trainees staying put after a cat is placed in from of them.
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• Jadeshawcan

The alpaca I saw at the wedding today
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gifs

• Dr_Peanutbutter_MD

Shocked Ruffalo (from Poor Things trailer)
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• joycomplex

An unexpected transformation
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• lnfinity

Making the most of the tiny pool
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educationalgifs

• silvercatbob

The triboelectric effect is a type of contact electrification in which certain materials become electrically charged after coming into contact with another different material, and are then separated.
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mildlyinteresting

• maurymarkowitz

The bright red interior of this broken branch
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• fraidycat

My calendar is missing June 10
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• j_walheim

This food bank rice may contain small amounts of arsenic
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interestingasfuck

• silvercatbob

The largest and the most populated city on earth, Tokyo, Japan
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• exmosss

No idea that there was another larger mountain behind the sign
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• GYROBOTTT

Modern pirates of the Africa coast
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funny

• rightcoastguy

I built unnecessary things and I’m calling this invention the Sipper Slowdown
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• Davidboh26

Idk why I think this is hilarious
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• OJI_Chocolate

Gotta love these signs
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aww

• kittytime

My corgi had the cutest reaction when she finally noticed me watching her getting groomed. Wait for the smile...
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• Dusty5paw

*Lovely goblin *
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• KARUMBIBI

My jumping spider goby [OC]
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I was wondering what the general thoughts were about animal population control policies?
There are ways in which various ecosystems have been messed up and as a result the overpopulation of certain animals threatens the surrounding ecosystem.
Is it ok if these animals need to be killed? For example, rabbits as an invasive species in Australia? Or certain invasive fish in North American rivers.
(And similarly, what about policies that some regions have of killing wild dogs due to rabies outbreaks?)