kite

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[–] kite@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Target sells them now! Mine have tags on the parts that go either by your foot or head board that say that's where they go. They also have extra pleating at the corners so that they stay tucked deep under the mattress. Iove them! Oh, and elastic around the entire thing so they tuck under the entire mattress.

[–] kite@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Where in the world are you able to have your mom "sign you up" to be a dispatcher?! To work for our dispatch, you have to apply, have a rigorous background check and a panel-type interview. And then they last less than 3 months because they make all their dispatchers switch from day to night shift and vice versa every two weeks.

[–] kite@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

We may not see many repercussions from this now, but when the unvaccinated grow up and the viruses have had a generation's worth of time to spread - just wait till a pregnant woman gets mumps and has a profoundly deaf baby. Or their toddler gets polio and ends up spending potentially years in a hospital, only to be released with lifetime disabilities. I know 2 people with polio, and one who is deaf due their mother having mumps (pre-vaccine days). Their lives, and the lives of their families, was/is hard. I wonder what grandma and grampa, safely vaccinated, will say when their grandkids start falling ill.

[–] kite@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I hate how these things are such deathtraps.

I live near a military base, and the base runs a lot of nighttime training over the forest my house is in. It is not unusual for Osprey to literally hover over my house. They get so close that the whole house shakes, and the sound from them is so loud it covers up a normal-volumed conversation. It doesn't bother us, but every time it happens I think of all the crashes 😬

We can also hear the base when it has bombing practice! Sitting on our deck and hearing bombs going off is a surreal experience. I can't imagine what it's like to hear those in an actual war situation.

[–] kite@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why even bother? It's not like anything is ever done about the non-anonymous threats we currently see. Ffs.

[–] kite@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I got one the other day that had the third column of images completely cut off on mobile. Didn't matter what browser I tried. I had to wait until I could get to a desktop to try and access the site.

[–] kite@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I had this once, it was awesome! And then my next flight was the worst one I've ever had. So prepare yourself just in case life is currently snickering behind its hand at you because it plans to fuck your shit up next go-around :(

[–] kite@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

They did this to me decades ago and I ended up having to get a new card so the old one would no longer work. I haven't used paypal since. Fuck them.

[–] kite@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Not on Home edition

You can do it on home. Takes a lot of googling and monkeying around, but I did it on my father's computer years ago.

[–] kite@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

That article is so much worse than I thought it would be. Holy shit.

[–] kite@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This would make a great SCP subject/article!

[–] kite@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

You'd be surprised how many medical people are that ignorant. I work with first responders, and the covid years utterly destroyed my soul. So, so many friends and coworkers in that field are antivax.. People I care about and thought rather highly of. And literally every single one is a trumper to boot.

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