I’ve always wanted to be able to sleep on my side whilst hugging some kind of stuffed animal but to no avail. Ever since my SO gifted me a stuffed penguin toy that’s large enough to fit in my arms and server as a pseudo-pillow, I’ve been loving sleeping on my side and have been really comfortable doing so too. I’m the middle spoon most of the time then. :D
I bought a body pillow (without the anime girl) for the same but within days I was in immediate pain come mornings. It was probably just overstuffed but I went back to front sleeping and it immediately disappeared
I didn’t, but I feel this will create more problems than it will solve
Hands are either able to freely move, but inside a narrow space, which will traumatize them and extend muscles, or they are squeezed between the chamber walls and those kind-of-filler-pillows, restraining motion.
Also, those who market it as a phone-comfortable bed clearly forget that phones and large narrow holes are a terrible combo. Oh, and for God’s sake, forget about ever eating ANYTHING on there.
First, breathing. For starters, you shouldn’t drown, for which you either have to be strongly fixed in a position with face up out of the liquid (which will be super uncomfy), or you should depend on oxygen mask (which is very dangerous when you’re unconscious during sleep)
Second, skin breathes too - and in liquids, the pores close and skin can’t breathe - which will eventually lead to hypoxia even if you breathe normally.
Third, skin gets irritated and damaged at prolonged contact (like, you know, 8 hours of sleep a day) with just about any liquid. It should be insanely inert.
Fourth - the thermal conductivity of such liquid should ideally be the same as air - too much (which is just about any liquid) would be harmful for your body’s thermal regulation and, again, for skin, too little would make you overheat.
Fifth - you need a liquid in which you can be suspended, which is impossible to precisely measure since our buoyancy constantly changes due to us breathing, and our breathing patterns change as we move between phases of sleep.
TL;DR - There’s a reason all those vats are part of sci-fi: as cool as they look, they are insanely impractical.
If I sleep on my stomach I can’t move my neck the next day, right side my right hand goes painfully numb, left side my left hand goes painfully numb, back both hands go numb. There is literally no position I can sleep in that I don’t wake up after a couple of hours and have to shift to a different position.
Dude, my arms kept falling asleep at night. I randomly mentioned this to my physical therapist (I was there after a knee surgery) and he put me on a massage bed and pulled my head. Not like some quack chiropractor, but just slowly pulling my head, stretching my neck. Fuckin problem went away and never returned. Closest thing to real magic I have experienced.
Wrong vehicle for around here. Around here it’s the largest, ugliest, noisiest truck you can possibly get. If it is extra-polluting, that’s a bonus.
We also used to have a guy in my neighborhood who would sit in his driveway and just rev his Harley for like an hour and a half. He could get away with it because we’re outside city limits, so there are no noise ordinances. Thankfully, he no longer lives around here.
You know what’s fun? The post-surgery “you always sleep on this side? Learn to sleep on the other one because you’re going to be this way for weeks, motherfucker” sleeping position.
I had jaw surgery a few years back, and I had to adjust to sleeping sitting up (believe me, the surgery made me tired enough to be able to do that) for several weeks because I couldn’t risk messing up my jaw while it healed.
This Note argues that the current framework in antitrust—specifically its pegging competition to “consumer welfare,” defined as short-term price effects—is unequipped to capture the architecture of market power in the modern economy
Ever since the disastrous law and economics movement took over in the 1970s, anti-trust has been about low consumer prices. Basically, and simplifying quite a bit, it didn’t matter how big a corporation got, whether they were part of an oligarchical or monopolistic market structure, as long as they could prove their prices weren’t extorting consumers, it was all good.
In Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox, she basically criticizes that economic perspective as permitting anti-competitive practices, consolidation of market power, and harm to consumers as a consequence.
Amazon, after all, rose to prominence by legitimately offering consumers lower prices on books, basically by reducing distribution costs and not owning any physical stores. It passed the savings onto consumers. So, there’s nothing inherently wrong with offering lower prices on stuff.
The problem, according to Khan, is that Amazon has continued to offer lower prices to consumers as it grew larger and larger and into the massive platform it is today…most of the time. Some of those lower prices may have been legitimately obtained…but the FTC is suing Amazon because it has employed its monopoly to price competitors and then shift to charging consumers more.
Under the old anti-trust paradigm, low consumer prices were all that mattered. Under Lina Khan, market structure and consumer prices matter. A monopoly that maintains low prices is as anti-competitive as any monopoly, and negatively impacts our economy.
So, it’s not so much that anti trust has been given teeth, but that, under Khan’s leadership, the FTC is much more likely to attempt the bite. And she started with Amazon, which is a bold move.
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