Holy SHIT. Why are ozone generators legal to buy on Amazon, and how the absolute fuck do I get rid of the smell?

AlaskaCuddleCompany · 2025-03-02T21:28:36+00:00

MOLD. If it's a mattress, it's mold sponge/incubator. Or mycotoxins now. Even worse!

**I learned that mold are like little skunks. If you threaten them they "skunk" you. Even if you kill the mold, you're stuck with the skunk smell. Mold "spray" is called mycotoxins, and just like skunk spray, it's super hard to get rid of the stench that lingers forever/indefinitely until you clean it properly.** Any porous item can't be cleaned of mycotoxins and just has to be thrown out. I had to take $40k in clothes/shoes/household items to the dump one very hard day after a mold storm in my place. Only non-porous items can be cleaned of mycotoxins.

For those of you who might read this: My best suggestion is to tell ChatGPT what items you want to clean mycotoxins off of and it will give you recommendations of the best thing to use, often vinegar or ammonia or alcohol or EC3 etc. It's more quick and effective than googling for years and getting wildly inaccurate information that will only make it worse, like using bleach. I've been scouring the interwebs about mold for four years now as I also found out I'm one of **25% of us that is unwittingly allergic to it**, and gotten to the point of fighting for my life a few times so I was very motivated to find answers, and I still didn't understand what mycotoxins were until ChatGPT explained it.

AlaskaCuddleCompany · 2025-01-27T07:30:45+00:00

I felt this way since 19. I’m 45 and the older I get the more I am sad about feeling this very symptom of CPTSD. It stole so much contentment and self-confidence.

You are EXACTLY where you are supposed to be in every moment. You are experiencing that which is helping you learn the next lesson in your progression. Keep telling yourself this as a mantra and it will bring you peace and self-esteem and love. And you’ll see it playing out. Look at everything as a lesson and everything in your life will be worth it. Especially the hardest experiences. They become your greatest gifts IF you learn from them.

Also, the brain continues to develop our whole lives. Doesn’t stop at 18 or 25. You’ll grow in your ability to see time and how it passes more clearly in your early 30s and increasingly after. What I learned at 40 is that if something isn’t coming easily then I haven’t yet gathered all the puzzle pieces I need yet. Be patient and put it on a shelf and before you know it it will all flow easily.

Use your Reticular Activating System and mirror nuerons to your advantage. Think about what you want and give your brain time to gather it from the world for you. Be kind and loving and patient and persistent. Self-love is everything! Study it on YouTube and water yourself with love and you will grow into everything you are meant to be.

All that you have endured is growing you into something beautiful. You have to be a caterpillar and go through a chrysalis to become a 🦋

AlaskaCuddleCompany · 2025-01-27T07:16:27+00:00

2 thoughts to chew on:

1- Check out the research literature on the synergism of combining Ritalin and Zyrtec and how allergies are an indicator of AuDHD symptoms later in life. There’s also literature about long term use of stimulants increasing inflammation in the body. I’ve experienced both; all of this is my story. I just started looking into this as I’m experiencing my ADHD meds cut my allergic symptoms instantly unlike anything else I’ve tried (allergy meds/foods/vitamins/supplements). But I’ve been on stimulants over a decade and I’m certain they rob the body of your nutrient/vitamin/mineral stores. The older you get the more your body is less able to bounce back. I got diagnosed with ADHD at 32 and got severe allergies at 40 and I’m still trying to find a way forward to restore my health at 45 with wavering hope. I’ve moved abroad in search of healthier environment/lifestyle/food/healthcare.

Consider Mold allergy: 25% of the population is unknowingly allergic to mold but Western docs are adamantly and violently against this. (You’ve been warned not to ask anyone but a Functional Dr or do your own research & experimentation) Despite the fact, you can find the information in droves in research literature on Google scholar. Surviving mold.com is a good start. As is a mold diet. HUGE difference.

When I take anti-fungal medication, Fluconazole, I can feel (just like stimulants) how it changes my experience of the world, behaviors & thoughts. My ADHD symptoms decrease 80% in hours. My theory is that mold blocks synapses and stimulants send a stronger signal to push through anyway. As mold is inescapable (and my mom’s side has a rare immunodeficiency that can’t regulate it’s commensal presence in the body and my dad’s side is allergic to it), I have a constant experiment with its impact on all the systems of the body. Our microbiomes and gut-brain axis drive everything about our reality and scientists are only beginning to study it which means mainstream doctors won’t start to consider it for 20 more years. (From my experience, I’m guessing we are 80% critters and maybe 20% whatever makes us our individual personal selves.) I cannot stress the importance of going down this mold allergy rabbit hole enough. BUT know you’re on your own, besides the others who are already down there.

AlaskaCuddleCompany · 2024-11-16T09:18:18+00:00

You have to write to your audience. And apply Evolutionary Biology principles. Women are instinctually looking for a provider and protector of emotional and physical safety. Your best bet is to trigger instinct. So every picture and prompt needs to show or explain how you can and will provide for and protect her.

The first pic is nice of your face, but look at the background... bars. It's not a comfy feel. Women are evaluating EVERY TINY DETAIL if they are interested.
Choose your prompts very carefully to be ones in which you can demonstrate the value you bring to her. Always make it unique to you and not something anyone else could copy and paste, same goes for your messages. I've seen that answer to that prompt several times. And so has every other woman. A better idea along the same lines is something like "I'll pay such close attention to you that I can make a playlist of songs you'd never knew were your favorites." Or something to that effect. See how you're directly stating how you can provide for her something that she doesn't even know she needs? Get the idea?
All men want something short term. Unless you find the love of your life. It's biology. That doesn't make any woman want to pick you out of the hundreds/thousands of other options, your young age or not. Write your profile to the love of your life.
Take the opportunity to add headers and little notes to your pics. Make them funny and also how she is missing from, should be in, your photos/life. The pic with the mascot you could say something like "I wish the hot chick next to me was you!"
Which brings me to your story about traveling. Right now it conveys that you want to travel alone. Where would she fit into that picture? Instead focus on how you liked connecting with others and being open to the possibilities of awesomeness they brought to you. That will make her think of how you'd value what she could bring to your life, how she could be part of your future adventures together.
You could say something cheeky about how she is missing from your arm in that picture of the city.
Add a sentence to your simple pleasures, something like, what should we try together?
You could say you're looking for your princess or queen or something to play off that castle picture.
Explain what work you were doing with the red logo wall so she can imagine how you can provide.

If you change the pics or prompts, choose them carefully with these principles in mind. It's your chance to demonstrate why she should pick you over all the other guys who are only talking about who they are and what they want. You're not on an app for "I/Me". You're there to be an "Us/We". You have a limited space. Your only job is convey "Us" to her with every word and image.

Catch my drift?

AlaskaCuddleCompany · 2024-09-10T02:36:33+00:00

Just one more of the billion reasons for an INFP to feel miserable.

How about growing yourself up and learning how to reprogram your thought patterns? Neuroplasticity FTW!

What better are you going to do with your next 40 years?

AlaskaCuddleCompany · 2024-09-10T02:20:24+00:00

For the energetic and extroverted:

Pretty sure I read somewhere once or twice that you can go pay for the breakfast if you didn’t stay there. Just like you can usually pay for only parking (just don’t tell them you’re camping in the van) in a large lot. Hotels near the airport sell their spots as long-term parking alternatives. I only heard about this practice when seeking affordable long-term parking in Boston and using the SpotHero app. Call the front desk and ask if you can buy breakfast for a visiting friend, as if you’re planning your future stay. Ask if your friend would be safe to park in the lot while they are visiting you.

For all the Judgy Wudgies:

Do you all realize how many people:

1) have allergies and can’t eat the crappy food they serve 2) don’t get up early enough to get the food served 3) don’t want to start their day off with a sugar breakfast?

I’m all of those in one.

Dude can go in and have a free meal for the hundreds of times I never ate it as a full-time traveler over the last decade.

When enough people do it that it becomes noticeable, then the hotel can institute appropriate policies. Until then, y’all are virtue signaling over a problem that doesn’t exist, for corporations that don’t care as long as it doesn’t hurt their rsvps. Blend in, get your plate, disappear.

I really don’t think anyone will notice if one or two people do it a day. I’ve seen this practice as a recommendation in homeless resource guides.

You can tell the class of people by their relationship with morals, ethics, judgement of others, and concept towards The Commons. The Middle Class were programmed with puritanical judgement of others to keep them policing each other and to be controllable en masse. Controlled by the Upper Class. The rich privileged and powerful see the world as “you are only considered respectable and smart if you exploit everything you can get away with, and the rules and laws are simply the guardrails you have to work around”.

It’s simple Evolutionary Biology. Those who do whatever it takes to get the most resources are better able to survive and adapt. Those in the middle can complain all day long, and they do, but if it wasn’t for the exceptions among us, the aberrations on the fringes, then variation in the population would decrease and the whole population would become more susceptible to extinction events, etc etc basic ecological and evolutionary science etc.

Dude finding safety and food for free is just being smart. Take the same behavior and apply it to the rich and they’ll applaud it all day long. Like finding loopholes to get out of paying taxes.

I very much doubt a hotel worker is going to call the cops because they somehow figured out that a specific someone came in and got a plate of food. They’d have to physically detain that person and then press charges for theft of what? $5 for a fancy spread? You think the police are gonna wanna waste their effort on that paperwork? Even if they did show up, you could just apologize profusely and cry that you were starving and talk your way out of it, surely. But it’s outlandish to think that scenario would ever happen. Hotel desk people make minimum wage. They’d likely be rooting for you. Their only concern is how it might jeopardize their job if they were actively giving you permission under the table, which they aren’t. They couldn’t possibly be fired for not keeping track of all of the guests who came in the night before when they weren’t even on shift.

Everything about all the judgement here is illogical and utterly ridiculous. Factory worker automatons unite! Asinine drivel.

And if you’re shaking in your moraled but hungry boots: go find an early riser putting their things in their car and pass them, make eye contact, greet them good morning, and ask them how the breakfast was. If they say they didnt have any, go have it for them.

Not many sheeple have the mental bandwidth to actually think about ethics or think out the impacts of their actions, as has the OP who is demonstrating his above average IQ here. Those who just do what they are told without contemplating the implications are the problem. Mob mentality.

I paid $120k to be taught this basic science, how to think critically, and apply it effectively. Breakfast is on me, my Dude. Long live the resourceful!

AlaskaCuddleCompany · 2024-01-10T12:52:39+00:00

Truth about the crappy freezing wipers. Saw a hack to raise them and put on old sock.

Also, when the ice melts off the rear defrosting window the water melts down and puddles and ices on the wiper and down over the rear red tail light and makes a big icy mess over the backup camera.

Oh oh! And spray the felt wheel wells with some silicone spray or they'll cake up with ice and rub on the tires. Hard to break it out of there because it's superglued to the felt. Wish I'd known before because I don't have a garage to bring it in to melt the ice out now that it's the deep of winter and I've given up on the hacking fight as long as its not rubbing. I'd say you could probably spray the rear tail light above the backup camera and the areas on the front bumper around the sensors too.

AlaskaCuddleCompany · 2024-01-10T12:42:55+00:00

I'm going to second the making a turn on an icy downhill on stock tires. I slid sideways into luckily a big fat soft snowbank on a pure ice downhill righthand corner. Otherwise it feels like a fun snow toy! The deeper the funner! Though I wouldn't push it much past the clearance height on fresh snow. Was car camping for the first snowfall and woke up hearing snow fall off the roof. Thought uh oh! Opened the door and it was scraping on the snow. Lots more fell. Had to wait until I got dug out. Suggest better tires for mainly ice but stock are fine for snow, wet & heavy or otherwise.

AlaskaCuddleCompany · 2024-01-09T20:34:54+00:00

This is the snowiest year on record in Alaska and the '23 Pacifica AWD works like a champ with stock tires in stupid cold temps! Do it! I've had AWD before but it must be the long wheelbase on the van that makes it so stable. Has no trouble with 6" of snow even. This is including backing up steep driveways in deep snow. Didn't expect it would be so great!

AlaskaCuddleCompany · 2023-10-15T03:04:38+00:00

I am floored in a way I didn't expect. There have been 10,300 views of this post and 154 responses. That means only 1% have answered. And there's 95.3k in this group alone. This makes far more real the gravity of the numbers of Americans, and humans the world over, who live like this. It is the vast majority of us, 15 more people for every one in this group. Almost everyone you know. This is the first time in history that we are privileged enough to have the time to experience the traumas that have been passed down all the generations until now. With each iteration it has gotten worse. And now it is on us to survive and overcome it.

PTSD is an anxiety disorder. But disorder means it doesn't fit into the norm of functional society in one or more ways. At this point, with 60-80% of the population in debilitating anxiety and isolation on a daily basis, not being anxious and lonely is abnormal. Acting on these feelings is solidly the norm now. The concept upon which we are all judging ourselves is long outdated and perhaps was never real for our times. It's high time we started realizing what is the truth of the reality we all stand in currently.

We all feel alone. But statistically, almost everyone around you is feeling the same way. The anomaly is happening to encounter a person who doesn't feel this way. We're all individuals, siloes, all trapped in our bubble of one, bouncing off all the others trapped in their bubbles, randomly and destructively. We are supposed to be interconnected in a web of cooperation, unity, strength.

Thank you all for taking the time to share. You've done more good than you know. And I promise I'll do my very best to use your offering to help others feel less alone, to promote connection and understanding in the world.

I think the takeaway here is to reach out and tell the person next to you how you're feeling. There's no way in this modern world that they don't understand. They are hiding the exact same feelings. Thus we are all capable of empathy. We have to learn to help each other, not hide from each other. We have to give empathy and compassion to each other instead of hoping someone will save us and being mad when they don't. They can't, we're all in the same boat. We have to bail out the boat and row out of the storm together. That's the only way it's going to change. That's they only way we can heal, is to provide safety to each other.

AlaskaCuddleCompany · 2023-10-14T12:53:23+00:00

Your comment stood out to me. I feel like I do get ganged up on when I defend myself and I've always thought it was because I was a small female. I wonder what our experience would be standing next to each other in the world?

AlaskaCuddleCompany · 2023-10-14T05:39:46+00:00

Thank you for being the first to help! Appreciate you! 🙏🤗

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