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  • As someone who doesn’t use these, the first things I think when I enter a home with them are:

    • This smells nauseatingly, overwhelmingly artificial.
    • This can’t be healthy (spoiler: correct).
    • I wonder what they’re masking to want to spend money on these things.
    • I would prefer to be outside right now.

    OP, as the other comment said, keeping a relatively neutral smell hopefully is a good goal and then maybe add pleasant undertones later. Instead of trying to introduce positive smells (cook at home more often or grow some plants, and you’ll get a bit of that!):

    • Make sure dirty laundry is kept in a hamper with a lid and washed at regular intervals.
    • If you have pets, make sure they’re housetrained and that accidents are cleaned – preferably with an enzymatic cleaner. Bathe your pets regularly too. If you have small animals in an enclosure, keep that clean.
    • Shower regularly, and clean your bedsheets regularly.
    • Make sure the house isn’t excessively humid.
    • Vacuum at least periodically.
    • Make sure dirty dishes don’t just sit dirty out in the open for long periods.
    • Make sure smelly garbage has a lid over it and is taken out routinely, especially if there’s stuff like meat scraps in it.
    • Open the windows on nice days when it’s around room temperature.
    • If it’s especially bad for some reason, an air purifier may help.
    • Regularly clean your bathroom.
    • Keep your fridge organized so food is less likely to go bad (or bad food gets caught quickly).
    • If you have a shoe rack near the door and you want to be really extra, you can once in a while deodorize your shoes. Maybe I’m a freak that I don’t do this.
    • Make sure the house isn’t excessively cluttered.

    This isn’t all-or-nothing: any of these will help with the odor, and that’s the goal.








  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldDirty Talk
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    • sudo is telling the computer to do this with root privileges.
    • chmod sets permissions.
    • Each digit of that three-digit number corresponds to the owner, the group, and other users, respectively. It’s 0–7, where 0 means no access and 7 means access to read, write, and execute. So 077 is the exact inverse of 700, where 077 means “the owner cannot access their own files, but everyone else can read, write, and execute them”. Corresponding 700 to asexuals is joking that nobody but the owner can even so much as touch the files.
    • / is the root directory, i.e. the very top of the filesystem.
    • The -R flag says to do this recursively downward; in this case, that’s starting from /.

    So here, we’re modifying every single file on the entire system to be readable, writable, and executable by everyone but their owner. And yes, this is supposed to be extremely stupid.








  • Moreover, if you don’t want people doing sex work, then you probably especially don’t want people to be forced into doing sex work. But that’s precisely what happens when you criminalize it: you make it so that the only way the demand can be satisfied is through a shady black market where trafficking is orders of magnitude more likely to take place, and you make it orders of magnitude more difficult for victims and witnesses to go to the authorities to report it.