NewWorldOverHere

I hold it under my non-dominant armpit when wearing pants with no pockets.

Aww, that sounds adorable!

That’s a good idea.

I had another thought too. In the past, I’ve used some acne creams on my face at night, mostly to try and prevent a breakout. Benzoyl peroxide was the main one, and it made little bleach marks on the top edges of my comforter and pillow case. Just a warning because these blankets seem special to you.

Good luck with your blanket setup!

1. What type of floor does your basement have? Is it carpet or cement?

Basements tend to be damp. So if it is carpet, there is a good chance it is retaining some moisture and already has some slight mildew/mold build up. This would transfer easily over to your blanket.

Would this make a big difference to you, since you’re already living in that environment? Not likely. If you’re allergic, it would just make you more sneezy, your nose rub more, etc.

1. Spiders and other creatures of the night. For this reason alone, don’t put your blanket on the ground. Unless you live in Alaska, where there are genuinely ZERO spiders, I guarantee you that you have spiders in your basement. And that the run across your basement floor at night.

Don’t believe me? Just stay up late watching a movie on your tv one night (with all other lights off), and I promise you’ll see their shadows on the ground as they move around.

So - no! Put your blanket on something! Anything! Doesn’t have to be fancy. Other people are making responsible adult recommendations, which is great and all, but the point is - keep your gosh darn blanket off the ground. Do you have an extra lounge chair (the type that has armrests; not a folding chair)? Put that by your bed and throw your blanket on that if you get too hot.

You do NOT want to put your blanket on the floor, and pick it up the next day… or three days later… and put it on your bed, accidentally picking up a spider or two along with it. NO thank you.

The profile picture is super memorable to me, for some reason.

I had similar thoughts at the beginning. I initially planned to simply manage my Reddit addiction for 2 days (lol).

As the individual subreddits started talking about going black indefinitely, I began to change my mind. When I read the internal memo from spez saying “this will pass” and they demonstrated their complete the unwillingness to negotiate, however, that was the end of Reddit for me.

I like your description of them as ‘nasty’ - it’s fitting.

Thank you for breaking it down the way you did. It’s the first time I’ve been able to build/read the urls/addresses where it actually makes sense to me.

It’s felt like everyone was saying “the bathroom is to the left” to me in Spanish, but I don’t speak Spanish. You just pulled out Google translate for me lol.

I’ve been on Reddit for 13 years. I posted more when I started, but now mostly scroll the front page in a logged out status.

I only found Lemmy.world because someone posted a link (last week) and only found kbin.social because the mods recommended it.

I think building your community here and providing the link to it from Reddit is perfect. People still want the community engagement, and lemmy/kbin can adequately provide that. The breadcrumbs, as you said, is how we build the mass movement from Reddit to a new location.