faythofdragons

joined 6 months ago
[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 hours ago

To be fair, air mattresses are like shittier futons and don't get moldy because you're always moving them around.

Source: I used to live with this setup, only in a smaller room.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 4 points 21 hours ago

It's a Grove Snail, and they come in a bunch of different colors. I mostly see the yellow ones, but I've seen one orange one and one pink one too!

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 23 points 22 hours ago

Depends on how he hears about it. If somebody brings it up as being beneficial to everybody, he'll want to axe it, but if he just hears that we're dumping tons of gross bugs on Mexico, he'll probably be on board.

 

During the pandemic I started taking photos of the snails in my yard, and now I'm making the jump to Pixelfed. I think this is my favorite shot so far.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I vaguely remember something about organelles inside a cell used to be seperate entities too

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can confirm, am shaped like a weird donut

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

Please do, it sounds interesting

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago (4 children)

wolfman constant

DDG isn't giving me any returns for this, can you ELI5?

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I also think its cultural and not an instinct. We don't have screens on the windows, so letting spiders roam freely means I don't get flies, which are objectively worse to cohabitate with.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

I think its because change always sucks over here. I was a caregiver before COVID, the agency took Medicare, so my wages were set by a state committee. The state raised the minimum wage, but I never got a raise because the committee took years to approve one. The state passed a law mandating PTO, but it was less than the 2 weeks we were already getting, so we didn't get more. I was doing overtime, living paycheck to paycheck, then the state decided that they wouldn't transfer the clients to palliative care, and we needed to watch them die too. No bump in pay, but they gave us the number to an employee helpline that would tell management if you used it, so I never used it.

There was a client I had been taking care of for four years, and I held her hand so she wouldn't die alone. I was out of PTO, couldn't afford an unpaid mental health day, another longterm client died, and I drove into traffic. I haven't been able to hold down a job since.

It's said a rising tide lifts all boats, but sometimes people get caught in the undertow.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

I did care before COVID, and the chromebooks were the safe option. Some sites had desktop computers available, but those had no antivirus and we logged into the admin account with full permissions.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago

It went south when Steve Bannon (?!?!) got involved.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 28 points 4 days ago

Isn't that basically dialysis?

 
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