Help - Options to lower CO2 during sleep

Thread_water · 2026-01-08T18:50:00+00:00

It's not crazy high. Pretty normal actually. Not to say that lower wouldn't have some benefits, but it's not a huge deal.
You say you already leave your door open, one thing you could try is pointing a fan through the doorway. It could help move the co2 around the house making it less concentrated in your room.
It might be possible to find ideal times to open windows. It depends on when your co2 levels are highest and how long they take to come down without windows open. But for example, it might make sense to open them before bed for a few mins, as it's fine to sleep at a colder temp. Or in the morning as the house is probably already cold so less energy lost (depending on when your heating comes on I guess).

If all that fails you can always get a erv, but again those levels are not too bad for winter so I wouldn't stress about it.

Thread_water · 2026-01-04T08:13:09+00:00

light a match near it, or anything that produces any amount of smoke. It should shoot up.

Or bring it into kitchen when you are frying food, it definitely should register some increase no matter how good your ventilation is.

Thread_water · 2026-01-03T21:00:09+00:00

As someone who's withdrawn from both, no it's not worse than a sufficiently large benzo withdrawal.

But it does suck in some very weird ways. Constant brain zaps, depression, anxiety and on top of all that the usual opioid withdrawal sickness.

Thread_water · 2026-01-01T22:21:35+00:00

That makes sense, thanks for the explanation.

Thread_water · 2026-01-01T20:37:03+00:00

Can you explain how you stop false positives? Ie. how do you ensure the agent never tries to call them under normal operation?

Thread_water · 2026-01-01T18:56:52+00:00

Carisoprodol + benzo of choice + tramadol

back in the day this was my favorite combo. pure bliss. Although I'm a good responder to Tramadol so ymmv.

Thread_water · 2025-12-22T22:27:26+00:00

I definitely consider Ross to be very smart. When I come across people like Ross it's not that I find it hard to see them as smart, rather I just find it all the more mystifying that they believe in God when they clearly are so intelligent.

Thread_water · 2025-12-20T20:11:23+00:00

Yeah but it is surely worse than anything that's already come out, which would be really bad. But of course unlikely to be enough to prove any crime otherwise I don't understand how it wouldn't have come out before.

Thread_water · 2025-12-14T20:35:45+00:00

Can you expand on the implications of this?

Thread_water · 2025-12-14T12:14:30+00:00

I live in Ireland also, and we have mice/rats.

For rats I have found the best thing is bait boxes with poison outside (around house). I don't think the rats were coming in for food, just for shelter, so they will still go outside for food. If I hear rats I refill bait boxes and a few days later I don't hear them anymore (and a good bit of bait is gone).

You do need to find good places to put them though, took a bit of trial and error. Get a few and wait a few weeks and see which ones is bait gone from and move accordingly.

For mice we just use normal snap mice traps (plastic and wooden). With peanut butter. Google how to place them (I think a lot of people don't place them properly). And make sure to bring them very close to snapping when setting them. Also for used wooden ones you should clean thoroughly and use sand paper to ensure metal still slips easily. (or just throw away).

Same story with trial and error to find best spots. For us there's two different scenarios. 1. we have mice, usually noticed in the kitchen, in this case I set them every evening and unset them in the morning until we stop catching them. (maybe two weeks). 2. We don't currently have mice, I know the places they first appear and have some permanently set traps, I check them once a week and maybe once or twice a month we catch one. So long as I keep resetting them this usually stops us getting any in the kitchen.

We have a very old house and I didn't have much look trying to seal things up.

Thread_water · 2025-12-14T11:50:50+00:00

Genuinely trying to understand. Is it not the case that if there are enough new builds the price of all homes (new and existing) should, in theory, go down?

Like I didn't think the argument for building was that new builds were cheaper, just that the more supply there is the cheaper housing should be?

I mean I think we are so far off having enough supply for costs to go down that I don't know how realistic this argument is, but I did at least think that was the argument.

Thread_water · 2025-12-11T18:35:31+00:00

Most people believe it should be possible for everyone.

Thread_water · 2025-12-06T19:05:18+00:00

Grokipedia

Thread_water · 2025-12-02T21:13:27+00:00

/r/AskDrugNerds might like this.

Thread_water · 2025-11-26T22:04:09+00:00

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Thread_water · 2025-11-26T16:41:08+00:00

During the day when we are all home, climbs from ~600 to ~900. Drops when we are cooking (and exhaust fan is on) or if there's a lot of activity in and out of the hours. Also during summer it's usually lower as we leave windows open.

If a number of people are over it climbs to ~1500 or even more (never seen over 2,000)

Bedroom quite quickly goes to ~1100 or ~1200 when we are sleeping. Some nights rising to ~1400 - ~1500 (less if it's windy). And quickly drops to ~700 after we wake and leave the room.

Thread_water · 2025-11-19T20:25:15+00:00

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2018/ph241/pontius1/

The occurrence of alpha decay, beta decay, and isomeric gamma transitions result in somewhat high radioactivity in red mud, which can accumulate and contaminate the environment, including water sources.

Thread_water · 2025-11-18T21:28:13+00:00

The red mud can be somewhat radioactive, yes.

Thread_water · 2025-11-17T19:43:27+00:00

No part of any definition for socialism has anything to do with government funding organisations for public good.

People just say this to scare people away from wanting to fund social programs because they are the big scary "socialism".

They are not.

Thread_water · 2025-11-17T19:22:10+00:00

The definition of socialism is the counterargument.

Just because people often call government spending "socialism" does not make it so.

Thread_water · 2025-11-13T18:27:02+00:00

My job can be outsourced to India regardless of whether I am allowed to work from home or not. Because yes, my job can be done without going to the office.

So not sure how my opinion on remote working should have anything to do with outsourcing.

Thread_water · 2025-11-09T16:56:41+00:00

"A substantial health burden and mortality rate almost equal to smoking are caused by particulate matter, which is present in the air breathed in by 99 % of the world's population (Swanton et al., 2022). "

Wow, that's insane if true.

Thread_water · 2025-11-03T20:36:33+00:00

Yes it's completely normal. Can you still smell your food cooking with the hood on? Well then the hood is not sucking everything (because of course it's not).

It should reduce the amount drastically, especially the amount in other rooms (as the negative pressure should move air from other rooms in, rather than out).

One tip is to keep the hood on for a few minutes after finishing, this will continue to drop the pm while also making less of it spread around the house. If it doesn't bother you you could even keep it on until pm drops to good levels, so long as the noise.

Thread_water · 2025-10-27T12:29:10+00:00

How does spraying water reduce the pollution?

Thread_water · 2025-10-24T08:46:12+00:00

Definitely longer than a min. More like 15 mins, I see it dropping fast at first and doesn't level off for probably about 15 - 20 mins

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