When the heating comes on, indoor humidity drops to 20% and the night cough starts

Normal is 40-60%. At 20-25% the lining of the nose dries out, crusts make breathing harder, and by morning there is a cough and a child who keeps waking. It is not a cold: no fever, fine all day. A humidifier or the improvised equivalents, saline rinses, airing the room before…

My 4-year-old cried at a Turkish ice cream stand. The guy kept snatching the cone back while everyone laughed. That vendor is:

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Polllifefishsticks · 16h

The clocks just went back again. Which time should we keep all year?

My boss was screaming at the whole team on a call, so I told him to watch his damn tone. That was:

Hackers raised cold room temperatures at three sites of France's blood service

Hackers have tampered with the cold rooms of France's national blood service. On 2 November, the control systems of cold storage rooms at three sites of the Établissement français du sang (EFS) were altered so that "temperature and defrosting thresholds were raised to very high…

The biggest age gap you'd date is:

The $5 rotisserie chicken from the grocery store is best eaten:

A plane is mostly a white noise machine with seats

The engine hum does half the settling work, which is why many babies sleep better in the air than their parents expect. The parts worth planning are the other half. Ears first: at take-off and descent, give the breast, a bottle or a pacifier - swallowing equalises the pressure…

A crafted image upload lets attackers write files to Ruby on Rails servers

Ruby on Rails, the web framework behind many online stores, SaaS products and startups, has fixed a critical flaw that lets an attacker with no account write arbitrary files to the server just by uploading a crafted image. The bug sits in Active Storage, the Rails component that…

You get a parking ticket while you're literally paying the meter in the app. You:

Eight things people say about baby sleep that are simply not true

The four I hear most: "Less day sleep means deeper night sleep." Usually the reverse - sleep begets sleep, and an overtired baby wakes more. "Cereal in the bottle keeps them full till morning." It does not work, and it is not safe. "Don't hold him too much or he'll get used to…

Ordering two mains just for yourself at a restaurant is:

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PollstyleCrispycouch2006 · 1d

Wearing mismatched socks on purpose as an adult is:

Hackers hijack Li Auto owners' accounts in Russia and demand ransom to unlock the cars

Owners of Li Auto crossovers in Russia are losing control of their cars to hackers who steal the "master account" that links each vehicle to its owner, then demand money to give it back. At least 20 owners have been hit in the latest wave, according to Alexander Rasskazov…

HR makes everyone write thank-you notes to coworkers at the team meeting. That's:

You find a wallet with $1,300 cash and an ID inside. You:

Great first date, but their laugh is so loud the whole restaurant turns around. Second date?

The first thing you wash in the shower is:

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Eighteen months apart, and for the first months nobody slept at all

When my son was born my daughter was a year and a half. We all slept in one bed: one at the breast, the other pressed to my side and screaming at intervals too. It was grim, and I do not have a nicer word for it. It does pass - slowly, and not because you did anything right…

Long-distance relationship, and you haven't heard from your partner in 3 days. That's:

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