Sci-fi & horror author, UXD, software dev, composer/engraver, gamer, seamstress/tailor, nerd, etc; she/her. Aroace.

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  • LillyPip@lemmy.caOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlSeveral times a day
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    14 hours ago

    Yeah, I feel like flared scrubs is a logistics problem. That makes good sense.

    I work about 1 metre down from where I sleep (one of those loft/sleeper/desk combos where trousers only even matter during certain teleconferences, or if someone insists on watching. Nearly all my trousers are flared, because if I trip, people don’t tend to die (I’ve had no reports of that, anyway), and I also never needed scrubs. I barely need trousers on occasion.

    Sorry for the demise of your fashion, but you certainly look cooler than I ever do, so there’s that.





  • LillyPip@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldSmart bed? Really?
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    18 hours ago

    It sounds stupid (and it kinda is) but modern smart beds track all your vitals and give you a readout of your brainwaves with suggestions on how to improve your sleep.

    I can totally understand how people desperate for sleep would buy one.

    It’s mostly marketing fluff plus that thing where more data != more knowledge, but I do get it. Sleep deprivation is the worst.













  • No. I was legitimately shocked the first time I heard these things, as I switched schools.

    I stayed shocked until today, though I’ve had to keep hearing it in my small town. For a while in the early 2000s, it got a bit better, but starting in 2016 it ramped up to 1980s levels again.

    As a designer doing advertising work, a local bakery rebranded themselves and asked me in 2017 to redo their logo to Kathy’s Korner baKery, for instance. Of course I wouldn’t, but nobody would have asked me to do that before.

    Back in the 80s/early 90s I would have seen shit like that, but not in the early to mid 2000s.

    From my (very white girl) perspective, it seems some people have hit middle age and desperately want to return to their teens when that abhorrent behaviour was okay. Their personality has become wrapped up in it, and they think being asked to care about others is a judgement on their soul (it is, and they’re awful people), so they’re lashing out.

    They don’t understand they can learn and grow, and instead feel everyone has turned against them, so they’re doubling down. It’s actually sad.