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My very conservative mother (who I no longer speak to) once got mad at Amazon, as in Amazon.com the capitalist empire, and said that they were "the most communist thing ever." Communists are whoever makes you mad or whoever the alt right media claims they are. Or something like that.

I feel like the Curad bandages I got in the stores always sucked, but I found different ones on Amazon (I know I know, I hate Amazon too) and they're bigger in comparison to Bandaids, noticeably better quality, and stay on forever if you don't pull them off.I've stuck one on and forgotten about it until over a week later when I realize its still on. I don't know why they're different than what I've always seen in the stores. I'm also wildly allergic to Band Aid brand adhesive to the point that I have scars shaped like bandages and I'm only very mildly allergic to whatever Curad uses.

Can I make a plug for Curad bandaids? So much better than band aid brand and you can get all the available sizes in fun colors. I may be an adult, but I'd like a bright orange band-aid on my skinned elbow thank you

When I worked EMS I did 7 days/80 hours/7 days off. A lot of people hated it but I loved it. Worked 80 hours (plus some for OT getting held over for calls) in 7 days, then had the next 7 days off. Rotated every 2 weeks. By the 7th day I'd be tired and ready to be done, but it really wasn't too terrible. I worked 2 8 hour shifts, 4 12 hour shifts, and finished with a 16 hour shift. Usually picked up 2-10 hours of OT on average every rotation from getting dispatched out on 911 calls at the end of the day before relief showed up, which always was an annoying end to the day, or from taking early 911 calls for the previous shift if I was there early so that they didn't have to stay over. I also got 160 hours combined PTO/sick to start, so every year I'd burn 80 of those hours on a 7 day rotation and end up with a 3 week chunk of time away from work. Heaven for an American wage slave like myself.

Thus the true meaning behind the phrase boys will be boys

Hanging at dawn then?

I try to use Firefox and Librewolf as much as I can, but the fact is that I'm a student and the websites my school uses for certain classes do not work on Firefox/Librewolf. I've also run into issues with certain other websites not running right and then when I switch to a chromium browser everything is fine. I don't have the knowledge to properly troubleshoot if the problem is on my end or just a shitty website, so it's just easier to use Brave when I need it.

When my cat was a very little kitten he didn't quite realize he wasn't human and would sleep in bed with the humans, tucked in under the blanket on his back with his head on the pillow. If one of us got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night he'd get up and go use the litter box. Our bedroom was down the hallway from the bathroom and the litter box was in the room across the hall from the bathroom so you'd turn one way into the bathroom and he'd turn the other way to the litter box. If he finished first, he'd sit in the hallway and wait until you were done and go back to bed with you, and if you finished first you could hear him frantically trying to clean the litter box as quickly as possible and I'd always stay in the hallway and wait for him to finish so we could complete the ritual together. Gosh I miss when he was a little guy.

6. Don't admit you use Windows
7. Don't talk about any browser other than Firefox, Librewolf or a spinoff
8. Linux, Linux, Linux.

I keep seeing my abusive parent in my dreams. I'm NC with them and have no idea why they are haunting my dreams except that I'm extremely stressed right now. I dreamed about them the other night, from what I remember it wasn't even a nightmare, we were just talking. I woke up full on hyperventilating with my heart pounding out of my chest. I've also been dreaming about solving endless calculus problems. Every night, just calculus all night. I can't wait until this semester is over.

Thanks for sharing. That's wild!

1.67 gbs. Haven't cleared since last time this reminder was posted. Thanks again

How does that work for laying flat? If your stomach sphincter doesn't close, do you have issues with reflux coming back up if you lay flat/try to sleep too soon after eating, or does the backwash stop it enough that it doesn't matter your position? Either way, it sounds awful.

I agree. I honestly hate boss battles. I love playing video games on hard mode, but for some reason boss battles have never filled my soul with joy or given me a sense of satisfaction when I'm done. They just irritate me. I definitely have games where I'm on the hardest difficulty for normal game play and then right before every boss battle I'm going into settings changing the difficulty to story mode so I can knock them down in 5 hits and move on with the game.

Oh my goodness! Emily needs all the kisses!!!

I will vote Charlotte for president! She can have all the treats! A beautiful girl like her deserves them!

I dont really watch movies because my attention span cannot focus on them, but all the books, all the video games, music, everything I'm into is everything that's considered bad. I try not to talk about pop culture because I'm completely ignorant about main stream stuff and I don't want to argue about why I like what I like. I hate being asked about myself because I spend most of my time with work and school and my very little free time reading, gaming and listening to music, but I don't want to talk about what I've been doing because I just don't want to defend myself or talk about why I like something. And even with some of the more popular stuff I like, I just want to enjoy it, I don't want to analyze it.

Wow, this is interesting! I really need to stop brushing it off and actually do something about it, but it's just so much easier to ignore things sometimes :)

I hope you have a long, healthy life!

Ugh, that sucks. I suspect I have some underlying condition because whenever I actually stop being lazy and do cardio like running I'll cough for days afterwards. I love running and used to run almost daily but got sick of constantly having a runner's cough. But all my medical checkups have been great and I feel like if I complain about the fact that when I get sick it takes forever to recover and cough when I exercise it's going to be too vague of a complaint for them to do anything about or care.

I'm an otherwise pretty healthy person who gets knocked out by anything respiratory. My entire life, ever since I was a kid, if I get a cold, the flu, anything, it's going to be weeks to months of feeling terrible. I always hated how casual everyone around me was with their illness, like oh, it's just a cold, yeah, well that cold is going to have me unable to sleep for the next 2 weeks and feeling generally awful for at least the next 2 after that, so please wash your hands after you sneeze on them. Twice now I've had the flu and taken over 4 months to recover and stop feeling like my lungs were filling with fluid every time I did any type of exercise.

I'm both a total skeptic who likes to debunk everything possible and also a firm believer that there are just some weird things in this world. I've had a bunch of odd experiences, this one is honestly one of the least creepiest but it's weird because it happened in broad daylight when my brain was fully turned on, focused, and not in a state that you'd think I'd "make up" something.

So anyway, back when I was an EMT on the ambulance, my partner and I got dispatched to respond to assist state police who were already on scene for a call. The address we were dispatched to was kind of a rural road, and there was a small cluster of houses, a business with a couple outbuildings, and a parking lot for the business in between. Dispatch told us ahead of time that the call was in the houses but per the state police we were supposed to come into the parking lot where they were parked.

My partner is driving, I'm in the passenger seat navigating. It's the middle of the day, broad daylight, and I wasn't tired or stressed or anything. We get on scene and my partner pulls the ambulance into the parking lot and we're both looking around to see where the police are. I catch movement from the outbuildings of the business and very distinctly see the face, upper torso, and right arm of a dark haired man in a dark blue long sleeved shirt casually lean out from between two of the outbuildings of the business, make eye contact with me, and wave his arm in the universal "over here" gesture before leaning back out of sight. I remember saying to my partner "hey, they're over there, that's weird, they were supposed to be at the houses not at the business, but whatever" just as a few things happened simultaneously. First, we both realized that the police cruisers were parked on the other side of the parking lot by the houses where they said they'd be, second, it hits me that state police in that state don't wear dark blue, and third my partner pulled the ambulance to where I had seen the man wave and we both realized that no one was there. There was no possible way anyone could have disappeared that fast as the time from me seeing him to us pulling up was seconds and the outbuildings he had been between were both long with no doors or windows to enter and there was nothing on the ground between them that someone could have ducked under or behind.

I was like ok, well that's really odd because I definitely saw someone but anyway there's no one there now so let's proceed down to where the police actually are. My partner was weirded out and asked if I was feeling ok or seeing things and I had no idea what to say except that I was fine and had no explanation. That was years ago and I still think back to that and wonder wtf I saw because most spooky experiences you hear about are at night or in a creepy location but this was neither of those.