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So, I got my very first duvet and I’m pretty pleased. It’s fluffy and soft and seems really nice.

Though, while it is machine washable, the instructions say it should be washed in a commercial sized machine. The kind that opens in the front and doesn’t have a mid-section agitator. Which means I didn’t wash it the way I wanted to, and that leaves me a little 😬 But I did throw it in the dryer on high for 20 minutes, which should have killed anything that might possibly be killable.

I did wash the duvet cover, which was a matching white color and feels kind of like fresh sheets after being washed. My only disappointment is that in my naivety I didn’t know I should be looking for covers that come with 8 ties, rather than the 4 corner ties I ended up with. So I had to kind of move everything around inside the cover to spread the duvet out, when if the cover had had 8 ties I could have just tied the duvet in, zipped it up, then shaken it out and it would have spread itself out with no risk of shifting inside the cover.

Lesson learned.

All my future duvet covers will have 8 ties rather than 4.

Still. I like that it looks like a big puffy white cloud. I’ll probably get different colored covers in the future, but it’s nice to have one simple, pretty white one. It’ll likely be covered by black and brown cat hairs in the not-too-distant future but oh well. That’s life with cats.

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I’ve got a duvet coming (and a separate duvet cover I’m getting for free) and I’m kind of excited. It’s supposed to be “warm in winter, cool in summer.” It’s an all-weather duvet!

I kind of ranted about the “horror” movie “Snow Falls.” It’s about 5 college kids going to one of their parents’ luxury cabins for New Years. Like, that place is nicer than a lot of our homes. Those are not poor kids.

They’re just really fucking dumb.

• They only brought enough food for the night and morning they were planning on staying. (Their other friend didn’t come on the trip because he’d heard there was going to be a snowstorm and he didn’t want to miss work if they stayed an extra day.)
• They didn’t bring extra gasoline. They just assumed that the cabin was fully stocked. So when the power goes out, they don’t have gas for the generator. (And don’t ask about the car gas, because jfc. Those kids.)
• They didn’t bring any firewood with them, and the cabin was only stocked with few armfuls that they quickly burned through.
• They take the one kid’s Adderall to keep awake because “If we go to sleep in this cold… we might not wake up.”
• They burn every candle in the place during the first real night. They could have made rocket stoves!
• Multiple times they dig through closets full of coats that look thick.

For reals: They should have been gathering sticks during the day. They could have used the axe to cut some bigger pieces that they could dry IN THE GAS OVEN! Seriously: The kitchen appliances run on natural gas. They were able to light the stovetop burners with a match BECAUSE THEY HAD ACCESS TO NATURAL GAS.

Like, they started freezing to death, and I was screaming at the TV like they were real people: “Take the mattresses off the beds and use blankets and sheets to make a blanket fort. That wide open living room plan is KILLING YOU.”

“For the love of god: The closet is FULL of coats and winter gear. Why aren’t you layering up more than that?!?”

“Siphon the gas from the car! I don’t know how long it will run the generator but YOU’RE DYING!”

“Huddle together to keep warm. Why are you all spread across the living room like that? Share body heat! Check if the cabin has camping tents and sleeping bags. There’s a whole shed out there. Why are you using those tiny throw blankets?!?” Seriously: There are blankets on the beds. Why aren’t they using ALL OF THE BLANKETS rather than just whatever those were?

“Once the fire went out, why are you staying in that GIANT living room? Why wouldn’t you go into a smaller room you can close off?”

That movie has found a place in my head. Not because of the horror, which I assume comes from the kid being so cowed by the parents that they aren’t allowed to burn up the antique wood trunk.

Like, the argument against burning ALL the furniture is that they’ve been polished, and the chemicals release toxic fumes when the wood is burnt. It’s the same reason why they might hesitate chopping down the wood railings with their four feet tall 8-inch diameter solid wood decorative posts.

But like, you’re going to freeze to death. Why are you just sitting there waiting for it to happen?!?

Gather dead sticks. Dry wood in the oven. Maybe you can cut the top layer off the furniture and wood posts so that you have clean wood to burn.

Why are you freezing to death?!?

I’m sorry, but if it were me, rescue workers would show up and that cabin would be wrecked. But I’d be alive.

Anyways, I ordered a duvet.

I know that it is annoying to be told something you already know, but it has to be understood that everyone has a different pool of knowledge from which we draw from. We were all born and raised in different times and places, and there’s no standardized education.

My brother attended school several grades above me, and as a result his home-ec class learned both cooking and how to use a sewing machine. My class learned how to make turkey chili and to wash dishes. The two experiences were not the same.

So whenever I see a picture or video featuring someone going "I uwu love my Scottish fold cat!" I refuse to reshare their content because fold cats are animals in incredible pain.

Their ears fold like that because of the lack of cartilage. They are virtually guaranteed to suffer from arthritis and mobility issues. Their every moment of life involves them wishing the pain would finally stop.

Show love, kindness, and care for those that already exist. Refuse to breed more.

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Once again that kooky South African man is catching attention for his fantasizing about how great it would be for the remnants of humanity to survive on Mars after the cataclysmic destruction of all life on Earth.

"Why would the Earth become uninhabitable?" you may wonder, but NOBODY KNOWS. (Continue feeding ridiculous prompts into the wrong answer-machine that consumes massive amounts of once drinkable water and contributes to the overheating of the Earth’s surface.)

For reals, I’ve got a list of pet peeves that should probably be me just standing on a cliffside wordlessly SCREAMING into the void:

• beverage companies destroying drinkable water only to come back later selling bottles of water
• fast fashion brands quick-selling clothing that is terrible for the environment when it’s made, discarded, and when it emits deadly POISON into the human bodies that wear it
• electric car companies that congratulate themselves for being awesome without ever explaining the environmental impacts of their batteries (Also, if you’re discarding an electric car, is there a special way you’re supposed to do it, like how we’re not supposed to just toss used double-A batteries into the trash?)
• big companies blaming consumers for DESTROYING THE ENVIRONMENT! because they use single-use straws while blatantly emitting record-setting amounts of carbon into the atmosphere
• companies selling carbon offset credits that they use to plant non-native trees they later cut down and sell for their own profits
• monopolistic corporations taking over every part of human life only to soullessly suck away the lifeblood of the populace in the stupidest, most DESTRUCTIVE ways possible (There’s really only one factory making infant formula? All of our apple juice comes from one contaminated source? ADHD medication is really only made by like two companies? All of our TV channels are owned by one corporation so when there’s contract disputes all those stations go off the air?)
• people are allowed to sell pretty much anything–even known poisons–as long as they call them supplements… yet the FDA has been so gutted that they don’t have enough inspectors to keep people from suffering and DYING from listeria, salmonella, e.Coli, tuberculosis, whooping cough, etc.
• while almonds are delicious, a single company using 80% of a state’s drinkable water to grow them during a drought being allowed to do so because of an unfair contract
• police departments indulging in acts of incredible cruelty and EVIL with the protection of "qualified immunity" that results in city’s making massive payouts, and then those cities later budgeting EVEN MORE money to police departments while cutting the budgets intended for the betterment of civilian lives
• wealthy individuals and corporations breaking environmental laws and paying ridiculously small amounts (less than they made destroying the environment) rather than being fined on a sliding scale that will really underline the seriousness of their crimes and result in them not committing the same acts ever again
• super yachts
• that food packaging like potato chip bags aren’t conventionally recyclable

I’m not saying that stupid billionaires are going to KILL US ALL. But there’s a good chance they’re going to succeed at killing us all through sheer stupidity and rampant predatory capitalism.

And that they’re being allowed to gloss over everything with promises of a Martian wonderland where every man will have beautiful sister-wives that will home birth perfect children while they work an easy George Jetson-esque job that doesn’t involve laboring in the underground crystal minds of Mount Doom? Horrifying.

"Let us DESTROY the environment we need to live and in return we will allow you to slave on our Martian plantations for low-wages and oxygen credits you can redeem at company operated kiosks."

Seriously: Any non-billionaire that hops on a ship to Mars is likely going to find themself stranded there with no way back. Like those poor astronauts that were only supposed to go up to the space station for two weeks and haven’t seen their families for months and months and MONTHS.

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