Shelbyeileen

@Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleep well tonight⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I go all out for Halloween. I’ve learned it’s cheaper to buy Garage sale/thrift store stuff like this for creepy decorations, than it is to get stuff from Halloween stores or even the dollar store sometimes. I have the coolest “potion” bottles made of old decanters. The massive influx of stuff that came into thrift stores after covid started, was awesome, in the most morbid way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Même] Which movie was this for you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was my jam as a little girl… but it might just be because I ended up being bisexual and there’s a lot of beautiful and badass people in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do lesbians like boobs as much as straight guys?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pansexual woman chiming in; boobs are distractingly wonderful!. I’m more of a butt girl, but always appreciate nice boobs 😅

  Being a dominatrix, might help though. Nipple clamps, biting them, teasing them; it all adds to my pleasure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mandalorian⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been opting out of every single one, but some companies are assholes and make you send it in through a written letter (Meta) or worse, automatically accept it if you’ve even just used the app/site/product after they send an email to you regarding changes. The fact that massive corporations also say all matters must be resolved in small claims court and with mandatory arbitration with the company’s arbitrator is incredibly illegal sounding. Fuck you AT&T. They were the company who fought for revoking arbitration rights in contracts. The Supreme Court decided it was legal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The scammers always have a field day with elections because so many people are too politically charged to do research. By LAW, every US campaign has to have the actual name of the person who’s sending texts and if it doesn’t, you know it’s a scam. If you have T-Mobile, you can forward the text to 7726 (SPAM) and they’ll shut it down. Never ever respond to these. Don’t even say “STOP” because then they’ll know it’s a number connected to a real human and not a business… a human they can scam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Compost⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’ve said is true. In my forensics class, we learned that police can actually use plants to find dead bodies, because you can see a noticeable oval of healthier plant growth. Older cemeteries flourish. There’s a few stories from the Neolithic Era about planting crops on the deceased, both humans and animals, but it’s mostly been erased from history. It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s happened during Famines or situations like the dust bowl where civilizations weren’t rotating crops and depleted the soil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Compost⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We have a break room, and some people pack food from home? Morbid fact; if a decedent who has excess weight, gets cremated; the whole building smells like bacon. I remember walking in one day, (at my first job that had a crematory retort inside) and was so excited thinking our boss had bought us breakfast… nope… I gave up bacon for over 2 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Compost⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mortician here! This is, luckily not true. Recomposition is already legal in several states and they’ve had massive success with it. The national and state forests that received the recomposted remains are thriving. The only downside (for some people) is that the person who passed cannot be embalmed, and in most states, that means it’s illegal to have an open casket visitation to the public. Most states have laws that family can see their loved one without embalming if it’s been less than 48 hours after death, but they need liability waivers. The public, however, cannot be a part of an open casket funeral, unless the deceased has been embalmed and sterilized. Closed caskets are fine at any stage. They make hermetically sealing ones that lock in the decomposition smell and keep people safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Compost⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mortician here!

  Recomposition (or Natural Organic Reduction) is already legal in several states: California, Washington, Vermont, Oregon and Colorado!

  As of right now, I think the compost is only allowed in national and state parks, but they’re doing testing on farms to check if there’s dangers to us consuming the crops and it’s been very successful and safe.

  Diseases and viruses can’t survive the composting heat and the plants are thriving. It uses 87% less energy than cremation and burial and stops embalming fluids from leaking into our ground water. I’m really glad this is an option.

  There’s a scam company that claims you can put cremated remains in the ground and grow a tree… yeah, cremated remains turn into concrete when wet and the heat of cremation denatures nearly everything beneficial for plants. We constantly have to tell people not to put cremated remains on plants or the plants will join the family member that passed…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neopets still exists and is going strong! The community is wholesome and so amazing, You can play it on your phone’s internet browser, it’s wonderful nostalgic break from everything else, and they have a TON of free games built in… Solitaire, Pyramids, Bullshit, Battleship, Minesweeper, Brick Breaker, Mahjong, Blackjack, Poker, Keno, etc.

  I still play every day and have a BUNCH of goodies for new players, if you do check it out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a long time; crab, lobster, crayfish were seen by the upper class as bugs of the sea and were very inexpensive. It’s only relatively recently did they become hella expensive. My 8th birthday party, I remember getting a pound of snow crab legs (including sides) for $6.99 at a nice seafood restaurant. I was born in the 90s, so it wasn’t that long ago!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a mortician, I’m highly confused what the hand-embalming syringes are doing …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨36 flavors⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s crazy that the cutest one was left out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asking a girl out for comic book store date?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a girl who likes comics. Do it. If you can find a nerdy shop with snacks, even better. Ask her about her favorite characters and have her pick out one for you to read, if you don’t know it. That would be an awesome green flag for me. Be careful not to get too serious/gate-keepy, though. An open mind is the best way to approach this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researching alcohol interventions for a friend. I’ve seen more ads for alcohol than ever in my life⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this is four months old, but I’m getting nonstop gambling ads after googling how to block them and its driving me insane. I hate that I’m not alone in ad hell… I’ve lost people because of gambling addiction and it is RIDICULOUS that there isn’t a way to block ads for things that are dangerous, if they become addictive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do "chest pillows" hurt for women to do?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am a G or H and honestly, they’re so big that I choke anyone who tries to use them as a pillow.

  At first I thought you were asking if I’ve used them as a pillow for myself, and I have, as a chin pillow. Isn’t comfy at all, though 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X updates Terms to allow it to use data for AI training⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do we know if there’s a way to opt out, or if this retroactively applied?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a mortician and love this list. Just wanted to add a correction; the sunken in areas are sometimes, but not often, from plots being disinterred. Up until a few decades ago, grave liners weren’t common or mandatory in cemeteries. With time and age, the caskets would break down and the ground would collapse downward. (Unfortunately this happened often, with big machinery coming to dig new plots, so liners became mandatory in most cemeteries).

  Grave liners are also popular because during storms, caskets could come to the surface and float. It happened a lot during Hurricane Katrina and Colorado has Coffin Races to celebrate the time one went on a ride through the city during a flood. The concrete liners stop caskets from floating.