Duranie
@Duranie@leminal.space
- Comment on No particular reason 2 weeks ago:
Is it possible to teach them to shit on the lens?
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 weeks ago:
There are many places across the country with staged levels of care offered. I’m in the Chicago suburbs, where based on the facility it can cost $3500-5000/mo per person for independent living (essentially your own apartment/townhome space where support services are available very quickly) $4000-10,000/mo for assisted living (someone is checking on you multiple times a day and potentially delivering meals/helping with meds) or $9000-16,000+/mo for nursing care (full care.)
The devil is in the details though. I know many facilities have different practices, but it’s not uncommon for a facility to require proof that you already have 2 years worth of payments on hand before letting you move in. Also some will just let you sign over your property/home as security.
I knew a man a few years ago that had moved with his mother to an independent living where he cared for her. He was there over 30 years, having “purchased” the unit for $275,000 and paid around $3000 mo in maintenance fees. She had passed away at some point, he continued to live there. When he sustained a fall and hit his head, they moved him into the nursing unit as it appeared he would pass soon. They cleaned out his home and sold it, “securing” the proceeds to pay for his care. He ended up recovering more than anyone expected, at which point he was told he only had enough money for about 18 months of care, then he would be moved to a Medicaid room where he would have to share his room. A friend helped him find a less expensive place, but with his belongings sold he had to buy furniture. He passed alone a couple years later. Through all of this he never questioned whether or not any of this was right or wrong, just shrugged it off and accepted that this is the way things happen.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 weeks ago:
On the other hand, that was also the time where there seemed to be an increase in the online bullshittiness jumping through flaming hoops to apply for jobs that ultimately didn’t exist because companies had to show that they were trying to hire so they didn’t have to pay back loans, while saying people weren’t taking the positions or weren’t qualified so they could keep the money.
I remember at the tail end of things waiting for my order in a burger place where the owner was working because they were short staffed and he was bitching about “no one wants to work anymore” with a customer. The guy sounded like a dick, and all I could think was that either he’s not paying enough or he’s treating his employees like shit - that’s probably why they don’t want to work for him. Either way that was the first and last time I went there.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 weeks ago:
FWIW, I’m a massage therapist who works in hospice. Legally, if someone falls I’m not allowed to try to get them up because that’s not an area of training for licensing/my scope of practice does not allow it. Someone working in a nursing home would be trained on safe transfers, BUT if there’s a chance the patient experienced an injury or is unable to assist in getting up themselves, it really is safer for all parties to get a lift assist from the fire department. If I had a loved one that needed to stay in a rehab/nursing facility and they sustained a fall, I’d rather the extra set of eyes assess before just putting them back in bed.
- Comment on Strength or Dominance Setting? 1 month ago:
Try having a vagina. When the fart slides to the front, you get to fart it again.
- Comment on Molting 1 month ago:
Juvenile skeksis!
- Comment on can I skip the exercise part? 1 month ago:
This one always makes me crazy. Our stomachs work to keep an acidic environment for our protection and digestion.
Hey! Maybe I should sand off the skin on my body to get more vitamin D when I sunbathe!
- Comment on Cheese is available 2 months ago:
If you look up the ingredients for Velveeta, you’ll see no water, but lots of dairy listed.
- Comment on Why did we send this? Were we trying to scare the aliens away? 2 months ago:
I’m torn between the guy in the middle eating a sandwich from multiple sides being a psychopath, or is he eating the sandwich into a shape like a butterfly like a child?
- Comment on We are so close 2 months ago:
Zero sugar sodas are 99% water.
If I have a glass of water, I’ll drink it when I’m thirsty. If I have flavored water, I’ll consume more because it’s enjoyable and I stay better hydrated. I tend to use a LOT of ice, so really I’m drinking that water too.
- Comment on A/B: Part Duex 4 months ago:
If I remember correctly, fats are very similar to plastics in molecular structure. The oils in pasta sauces get stained red, and in turn the oils like to hang on to the plastic, making them stained. It gets tricky to thoroughly wash all of the oils off the plastic because they want to stick together. One of the tricks I’ve heard to prevent staining is to spray plastic containers with regular non-stick pan spray before adding the pasta, so the clear non-stick spray oils sticks to the plastic before the stained pasta oils do.
This is also why you can wash a plastic container and sometimes it still feels a little oily or takes finger prints easily.
- Comment on The way this egg peels in infuriating 4 months ago:
While I’m cooking the eggs (I use a $10 egg steamer I bought years ago for fully cooked eggs I’ll want to use cold) I’ll throw a random large bowl in the sink. I’ll throw a clean reusable ice pack in the bottom of the bowl and cover it with cold water. When the eggs are done I’ll put them in the cold water for at least 10 minutes, though honestly usually way longer because I’ll be doing other things while making the eggs lol.
If I’m planning on peeling all the eggs right away, I’ll crack the shells lightly before putting in the cold water. This seems to let some water seep under the shell as they cool and helps with peeling as well.
- Comment on so many want the body they dont have 5 months ago:
Dark, warm, moist, friction - perfect formula for growing something on irritated skin .
The only time I generally don’t apply it to these areas is if I’m planning on sharing these areas with someone else later that day 😉 lol .
- Comment on so many want the body they dont have 5 months ago:
I have a dedicated 72hr antiperspirant stick that I use for my underboobs and the crease at my groin area that I apply after every shower. Summer and workouts are so much more comfortable without the skin irritation, and the conditioning/protective barrier helps prevent friction.
- Comment on thx for the diabeetus 5 months ago:
It even started in the late 60’s early 70’s, originally referred to at “Chinese restaurant syndrome.” Rooted in anti Asian racism, supposedly we were slowly being poisoned… by tasty tasty Asian food with added msg.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
There’s no way they wouldn’t take the opportunity to put a woman in last position to catch the most shit.
- Comment on Sick days 6 months ago:
I once worked at a place that offered three vacation days per year. The only catch was, to use your paid days you had to work a separate shift for each day you took off. So ultimately if you wanted to have 3 days off, the week before and the week after you might not get a day off because of the extra shifts you had to work. Just how is that taking time for yourself again?
- Comment on Day 560 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 6 months ago:
Growing up Gen X in the midst of the Satanic Panic, this game potentially becomes everything we were warned the world would become if you listened to rock music lol.
That said, my boyfriend and I made our entire cult out of cats.
- Comment on Check mate, Libertarians 6 months ago:
The lower leg moving would be an obvious sign, but they may be watching above the knee (where the muscle is actually contracting to create that movement) for even a twitch. Even absent that, without other symptom complaints they may just not be holding much weight with that one test. If you came in complaining you recently started dropping things, tripping, or injured yourself in a fall, that would carry more weight.
- Comment on yeet 6 months ago:
The way it was explained to me -
I’m walking on the roof of a building, carrying my baby. I get the intrusive thought to yeet the baby over the edge. Result - I recognize the horrible thought, causing me to hold the baby tighter and remove us from the roof, thus keeping us both safer.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 7 months ago:
Caramelized onions are a gateway to onion enjoyment.
- Comment on Great guy 8 months ago:
Turns out Keanu had witnessed somebody walking their dog, and that person kept jerking on the leash and kicked the dog. After rescuing the dog, the offender was tied up in Keanu’s backseat. Kidney donation is 100% justifiable consequence of his actions.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 8 months ago:
Sometimes I check Amazon to get ideas of options, then look for independent companies that sell products with the features I want.
- Comment on Go with the flow 8 months ago:
I average about 25 grams of fiber a day and am well hydrated. About 20 minutes after my morning coffee there’s a knock at the back door. When I answer, there’s a mass evacuation that results in no evidence. It’s quite refreshing!
- Comment on Busted box inside of a pristine Amazon box 8 months ago:
I keep a jar on hand for adding to certain baked goods/desserts, and I’ll throw some in my protein shake along with a little extra fiber for breakfast.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 8 months ago:
My niece has Turner’s syndrome. She had to learn to give herself hormone shots to grow and develop as others normally would during puberty, but due to very underdeveloped ovaries is incapable of producing gametes. How does she fit in?
- Comment on This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important 8 months ago:
I tend to wash my face separately from showering, and also avoid directly spraying water in my face because some lizard part of my nervous system thinks I’m waterboarding myself.
That said, there’s generally enough random drippage and mist during a shower to require I dry my face.
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me.. 8 months ago:
With Oneida Twin Star silverware. I’m 53 and still have a few pieces from my parents set floating around for the nostalgia lol.
- Comment on Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm? 9 months ago:
Now?
- Comment on I feel like a buffet would fix this 9 months ago:
Right now I hate that voice in my head that does the real voices.