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proudblond

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  • More Americans now support banning phones all day at school, not just in class

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  • Someone is downvoting everything but I agree. I try and keep my helicopter parent impulses under control, but it is nice to know exactly where my kids are. My son (12) has a locked down old iPhone and Apple makes it pretty easy to make it practically a dumb phone. We literally have it set up so that he has to ask for permission before using any apps, with the exception of calling and messaging. (Even messaging is iffy; we want to be able to text him but it opens up texting with friends.) He doesn’t need it at school so he doesn’t bring it, but as he gets older, I’m sure it’ll start to go with him and I’m not upset about it. If he wants to go somewhere with a friend right after school instead of going straight home, it’s fine with me as long as I know about it. Without a phone, it’d be hard for him to make such plans on the fly, and let’s just say that planning ahead isn’t my ADHD-kid’s strong suit (yet—we’re working on it). As long as the expectation is set that he doesn’t use it during school, I think that’s okay; it can just live in his backpack until school is over.

  • Effective ways to get rid of acne?

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  • I also had adult acne and ended up finding an aesthetician for facials who set me straight. The biggest thing I was doing to hurt my skin was using products that were way too harsh. I’m sure the facials themselves didn’t hurt, but switching away from benzoyl peroxide products to really gentle cleansers and light moisturizers was what really made a difference. Now I use fancier stuff but she essentially recommended Neutrogena sensitive skin moisturizer (without sunscreen — use a separate, physical sunscreen) which can easily be found at any pharmacy, and for cheap.

    Full disclosure though, while I was on the road to recovery, I also got pregnant and then my skin was great. And my new products and habits meant that my skin managed to keep being okay post-pregnancy.

  • Tesla Has To Fix Its Super-Bright Headlights. A New Law Could Change Things For Good.

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  • Yes I 100% agree! Making everything automatic also makes people complacent and they don’t check to make sure everything is working as intended. I rather miss my light switch in my car. Daytime running lights are dumb unless they are just always-on headlights and taillights.

  • My DIY litter trap with info to make your own

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  • It’s a damn drive thru lane, I’m telling you!

    It used to be in our bathroom behind a baby gate with a cat door in it (also where we have to keep the cat food), but we got a 2-in-1 washer/dryer combo and it freed up a spot in the laundry room, and I was super happy to get it out of my bathroom! I’ll deal with the occasional heist of kitty roca.

  • Tesla Has To Fix Its Super-Bright Headlights. A New Law Could Change Things For Good.

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  • In older cars, where you could manually flip the rear view mirror to dim it, my dad would flip it back and forth trying to flash the person behind him so they’d get the hint about their high beams. Not sure it ever worked…

  • Tesla Has To Fix Its Super-Bright Headlights. A New Law Could Change Things For Good.

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  • Back when I still used Nextdoor, I once posted a picture of the regular (green) headlight dash icon and the blue high beam icon, and spelled out what they’re used for and that people should know the difference. I got flooded with hearts or whatever the Nextdoor equivalent of upvotes is, I’m sure all from people who already knew and were also frustrated. There are definitely some people who are either ignorant or oblivious; I wonder if any of them saw my post and learned something? Can’t say the problem got any better.

  • My DIY litter trap with info to make your own

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  • Honest question from someone who has used a ton of different types of litter-trapping mats: do your cats actually walk on them? My problem with many — well actually, probably ALL of the mats that had any plastic was that the cats would leap over them because they didn’t like the texture. I had a utility mat in front of it for a while that had a fabric top and that went okay but didn’t really trap litter. I’m currently testing what basically amounts to a fluffy rug and it’s going okay I think? Supposedly helps with water/mud tracking also which is great since our litter box is next to the doggie door. (Yes, I have caught the dog grabbing a “snack” and heading outside in the short three minutes before the robot litter box cycles, sigh.)

  • 26 Meta employees accuse Mark Zuckerberg of using AI to target 8,000 layoffs against workers on medical, parental or family leave

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  • You’re right and that makes me want to cry a bit.

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  • Both my parents and my in-laws moved away from their own parents and it’s clear they think it’s normal to do everything on your own. But I just figure the social systems in place were way different when they were raising us in the 80s compared to now. Mine are still local but really only around occasionally, and my in-laws were never very close by but literally moved across the country (US so it’s faaar) when I was pregnant, and now despair about how little they see their grandchildren when they don’t travel to see us (for legitimate but still frustrating reasons).

  • Meme Got Upgraded

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  • Supposedly it’s that he stands that way to make himself look less fat, but your version is just as plausible.

  • “Back in myyyy day…”

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  • You’re most likely right. Though, she is holding twins in the picture I think. Depending on genetics, it’s possible that a few of the other siblings are also twins. But that’s still a hell of a lot of pregnancies, and twin pregnancies are generally harder and riskier than singles, so… yeah that’s not really any consolation.

  • Why Becoming a Parent is Like Having a Crap Character Join Your RPG Party in a Video Game [TwistedDoodles]

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  • I’m feeling this today. We have a tight-knit school community and I just had to alert another parent that her kid was saying some really uncool things in a group chat that my kid is in. Felt like a narc. But I know she’d want to know. This after my own kid had a hell of a group chat problem earlier this year by using racial slurs and aggressive swearing toward someone he was mad at. Thankfully I happened to see it right away and addressed it, messaged the other parents to apologize, etc. but it was baaaad. Now I wonder if my kid just deletes messages; did he really learn his lesson or not? Sigh.

  • Streamer claims Microsoft “deleted” his account because it was hacked

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  • I think these cloud companies have been pretty successful convincing people that at-home storage is more at-risk than the cloud because you could always have a house fire or something, or your hard drive could fail, or whatever. But it seems the pendulum is now swinging the other way as people get wise to the inherent dangers of only keeping things on the cloud, and trusting a company with your data no less.

  • Did you attend your high school reunion? Why or Why not?

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  • I’m so relieved to find a ton of other “no’s” in this thread!

    I always felt like I was being a bit antisocial not to go to one. I’ve never been to a college reunion either. I’ve kept in close touch with only one person from high school and a handful from college. Add to that: 1) I don’t feel like I have much to brag about; 2) I would feel icky bragging even if I did. And that’s what I imagine reunions to be, if you haven’t kept in touch generally: just a bunch of near-strangers posturing to each other to feel better about themselves. I just don’t have any interest in that. It’s much the same reason I got off of social media about 10 years ago (minus the link aggregators/forums).

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  • Every scientific headline I see about cats just confirms what cat owners already know.

  • Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to conserve power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes — state's 400-plus data centers steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and prici…

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  • I lived through those brownouts but I was a teen and didn’t understand what was going on, just that it was annoying. We had just moved into a house in a very hot part of town where the wind goes to die and it suuuuucked.

  • What is the most useless thing you’ve had confiscated by airport security while traveling?

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  • Maybe that’s why I get away with mine so easily; I always knit on circulars, even when knitting flat, so the needles themselves are pretty short.

  • What is the most useless thing you’ve had confiscated by airport security while traveling?

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  • Dude I take my knitting needles on board all the damn time with no issue. I guarantee I can fuck you up more drastically with my slender nickel-plated metal needles than your little collar stiffeners. That’s messed up.

  • What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?

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  • I watched the show and then within the last year listened to the audiobooks. In book 4? I think? Amos is talking to Peaches about how humans are tribal, and their tribes expand when times are good but shrink when times are bad. And yeah, it was kind of a mind-blown moment for me because I’d never thought of it that way before.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    proudblond @lemmy.world

    What are your go-to comfort foods?