Due to the chemicals used, they can be more of a grey market drug that isn't illegal or tested for in some cases.

I predict this isn't going to go down well here. Over at r/cryptocurrency you'll be a hero though.

China will not extradite to the US, why do you think they would surrender a US citizen just because our government asked them to?

This is extremely ignorant

damn something similar happened to me few years ago, and i ended up in the hospital and pissed myself lol

True. Possibly the incorrect movie was a more famous one and those results actually showed up, whereas the other, more obscure movie, may have not even shown up on the first few search pages and might have been missed.

So, uh, was this chick named Josie?

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you always have a sitter when you do a lot of hallucinogenics

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Maybe it's not the subject matter; maybe it was just a bad song she didnt want to be associated with?

Dude, you were IN Mexico. As an American citizen, you should have just walked across the border. If she's your wife, she gets a visa different than a tourist visa, and since when has anyone from Mexico needed a Visa? Just make sure you walk across at a place where the B.P. is right there, and a pregnant woman with an American citizen usually get a fast track hearing, and coming from China, you could claim asylum until your green card for marriage came through. It shouldn't be hard to verify your ID, and the American consulate in China should have no problem getting an American, which she would be, out of China. It's not like they're holding her hostage, it's red tape. The marriage and baby cut a lot of that red tape as it proves it's not a buy your way through mail order bride situation. Should be easy, just bureaucracy.

I've had dozens of stones over the last 15 yrs and I can recommend a few things that have helped me that may help you hopefully.

Obv sip water as much as possible.

Apple cider vinegar(with the mother) and real cran juice...lime cuts the cran and you can dilute both as much as you want.

Ibuprofen is your friend, booze is not.

Everyone eventually finds other things that may help but the doctors/specialists(urology) are 90% guessing as to what causes some of them and they will pretty much tell you to cut things from your diet or drink more water which if you're like me you've already went down the dark hole of the interwebs for this info.

Good luck

Your statement was fathers get nothing. I said this is not true in many countries. I provided examples of multiple countries where parental leave, inclusive of leave for fathers, is provided. I supported my argument, which showed your argument (that fathers receive nothing) is inaccurate when it comes to multiple countries and is continuing to improve.

Great job.

Also, maternity leave may not have to do with recovery time, but it sure as hell has a lot to do with practicality. Men don’t lactate. Formula is expensive. Uptake on parental leave by men is still slow (which is what that japanese article was about.. it wasn’t new policy; it was about promoting existing policy so more men use it by requiring companies to make sure they reiterate it to men). There are so many countries where women aren’t even seen as people still.. where they aren’t able to drive, or their wardrobes are dictated, or they can’t get a quality education… and you’re using those countries, the ones that are forcing women into a role that solely exists to procreate, as examples of how men are hard done by because they don’t get equal leave after a woman gives birth.

We do need to promote equality for parental leave because it equally impacts women who would prefer to return to work… but we need to promote equality in general and not penalizing for taking leave. Because, guess what, it is still damaging to a woman’s career if she is off for a year raising kids.

I left the Wikipedia with every country’ policy listed. Essentially 0% have equal leave.

Yes. Reference China and India…. Two countries known for their high quality labour laws and excellent working conditions. That will definitely prove your point.

Horrifying, thank you for that.

I haven't ruled out hospital, just don't think I'm there yet. Having a hard time justifying what is sure to be 15k+ I can't afford. Hell I've been unemployed for 2 months and I'm supposed to start a job tomorrow.

Hospital isn't ideal, but I'm not dumb enough to not go.

A friend thought he had a kidney stone and it turned out to be a massive bladder infection that almost killed him. He kept trying to tough it out thinking it was a stone that would pass. Eventually a coworker of his forced him to go to the hospital. Be sure you have a stone and not an infection.

Damn man, kind of sucks to be married to you.

I see what you did there.

The law you’re discussing wasn’t only passed recently, but holds little ground in japan where building relationships at work trumps legal technicalities. Most men still won’t take the leave, or face consequences, while women will not face those consequences.

China offers 98 days to women, up to 15 days for men depending on wife age.

India offers 26 weeks maternity leave, 0 paternity leave.

That’s almost 50% of the world right there. Compared to your 2%. Satisfied?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave

You can see the times of each country under ‘by continent’.

Well it depends on what country the OP lives in. From their rather scant post history, it seems they live in Italy. For most of Italy's post-WWII history, being associated with communists would probably not have garnered any sort of adverse attention, but lately idk.

So you put your entire paycheck, which is issued in a currency that is backed and guaranteed to exist by a government, into a currency that has nothing behind it to assure that it will be available in the future?

You're broke, and you put all of your money into a scam.

That's a pretty big fuck up.

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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/04/04/national/social-issues/child-care-leave-law-amendment/

So you talked to HR and got all of the nuances? Or you just made assumptions based on what you saw? Because I seriously doubt you spent a lot of time with new parents discussing how they planned to allocate their leave. Because law grants either parent in Japan leave. Way to not know what you’re talking about.

You know that there are also countries that don’t even give any time off, right? And that in countries where there aren’t specific guidelines, it is up to employers to determine policies. Was I supposed to go over labour laws for all 195 countries in the world? If I don’t, are you just going to continue to try to claim I have no argument?