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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • Interesting that you didn’t notice all the Republicans pissed off that it got killed over stupid infighting, which might be confused with some kind of strategy on the Democrat’s part to highlight just where MAGA’s gonna get them.

    Now, from what I’ve read of your posts here, none of it actually matters to you - you’re going to keep banging on about how both sides are the same by bringing up how they’re similar as if the similarities prove you right, and ignoring every difference as though they don’t contradict you, so I’m not going to bother going any further with this. If you have a vote, I already know that you’re gonna make damn sure it’s a vote for Trump - even if you end up not voting at all. So thanks for that.

    I miss ranked choice voting from Australia. Colorado has it on the ballot this year, hopefully it’ll pass there and the rest of the nation will follow suit. Then agitating like this will actually mean something.








  • I mean, first, blocking off one of your two major airways for a period of 8 hours while you’re unconscious sounds like a fantastic way to get suffocated. Doubly so if you have problems with the remaining airway (which of course you do or you wouldn’t be considering this in the first place).

    If you snore, “nasal dilators” might be effective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_strip

    They also have been shown to reduce snoring loudness and improve quality of sleep.

    But it depends where in your nasal passage the blockage is. Before I got my septoplasty I didn’t snore much but I found my nose would block up when I lay down; if I rolled over it would clear one side. That’s the “turbinates” in the nose filling with blood (which is usually due to histamine response as I understand it). The strips pull the nasal passages open from the outside, so you should have a little space to breathe even with fully-engorged turbinates.

    They’re not very expensive, I don’t think. The only downside is that the adhesive might irritate your skin, but that’s true of taping your mouth, too.

    You might also want to get a sleep study done to see if a CPAP would work for you. I know several people who suffer really bad sleep apnoea and all of them said the CPAP gave them the most restful (and quiet) sleep of their life.

    Whatever the weather, good luck! Getting shitty sleep makes everything else in your life far harder than it should be. I hope you find a solution that works for you.