When traveling or going to a convention in the USA bring a surge protector for extra power outlets.
Put trash bags at the bottom of your trash can for efficient replacement.
The worst job I’ve ever heard of was back in Tenochtitlan where someone would go around in a canoe collecting human dung.
I wouldn’t mind a job going around in a canoe though
A friend of mine is a river rafting guide. On the trips, everyone poops in a big metal box. At the end of the week, she has to clean out the box. Sort of same deal. Raft instead of canoe and a different reason for carrying poop around, but don’t let your dreams be dreams.
Depends on the weather.
The cake is a lie
The cucumber is a fruit, so a cucumber + tomato salad is a fruit salad.
99.9% of people have more in common with an illegal immigrant than Elon Musk. Their problems aren’t caused by people arriving in small boats, but those arriving in private jets.
People who have things in common, even people who’d be best friends, even those who are best friends, can compete for resources and cause problems just by existing.
Like, extreme case, not enough food in zombie apocalypse scenario and you find more survivors, doesn’t matter how good those people are it’s a problem that they’re part of the group.
It doesn’t mean the people are enemies, just that their presence is a problem.
Now, it’s probably the case that they should be allowed to move from country to country because otherwise you don’t have competition between countries to attract people. People need to be able to choose their associations in order to be free, and people should be able to move countries.
It’s a free market in that sense, and the suffering of people whose home country’s resources are strained by immigration isn’t as powerful as the suffering these people are leaving to come here, and when those two levels equalize the immigration pressure will stop. People will be going the other direction just as much.
And I think that’s all totally fair. I think people should be able to vote with their feet and go wherever is best for them.
But then being similar or dissimilar, good or bad, none of that is necessary for it to create simple resource competition problems.
All of this would be valid if we were lacking the resources to support our current population, and if every person consumed an equal amount. Unfortunately, certain people (i.e. the mega-rich and more generally Americans) are consuming resources at an unfair and unsustainable rate. You’re suggesting that scarcity is the natural result of immigration and population. In a vacuum that’s reasonable, but in real life we have a small number of people sucking up exponentially more than the rest.
Carnivorous plants are not as hard to take care of as most people think. Sundews are literally an invasive species in New Zealand, and Venus flytraps are from South Carolina. The reason they seem hard to take care of is because many companies that sell carnivorous plants provide incorrect care instructions or pot them in the wrong type of soil. Most likely as a planned obsolescence scheme to get people to buy more. Learn the proper care instructions, and they’re extremely hardy.
The Carolinas are an amazing place for carnivorous plants. Over 30 species of them including Venus fly traps are native to the area.
Do you have a favorite site for plant soil/care guidance?
I’m not particularly interested in carnivorous plants, but plants in general, and I often see sites with conflicting info.
Hi! I feel strangely well-placed to respond here - my horticulturalist wife used to tend a garden of carnivorous plants professionally.
I asked her advice and she said,
"Avoid blogger sites. Some are good, but most have no clue and just regurgitate what they read on some other blog. If you want the super in-depth info, use Google scholar and search for the plant name plus whatever you need to know. Soil ph, propagation technique, etc. For more approachable info though, search normally for ‘<plant name> university extension’. University extension work is when a university is doing public outreach stuff - publishing information in easy to read and apply ways. "
So… Searching for “Venus flytrap university extension”, I found this page which gives a very straightforward breakdown on how to care for your own personal Audrey-jr.
Unfortunately, I don’t have much that I can share with you on that front.
But it reminds me of searching for protocols when doing a science experiment - everyone says something different. What I learned is to look at multiple sites and then take the “average” of all of them. Tends to work pretty well
Most countries have at least a few dozen countries they can travel to without a visa and visas are easy to obtain anyway, so if you ever want to take a break from the rat race, all you need is a plane ticket to a destination with a favorable exchange rate, and with a thousand dollars of savings you can take a hiatus from working or work on a creative project you’re interested in for months or years, depending on your lifestyle.
The problem with the rat race is that even if you win you’re still a rat.
Get out of that maze!
Sorry, I don’t get the relevance of the reference?
As far as I understand, it’s from 1984?
I never saw the movie so I might be missing some context here.
Spoilers for 1984 - so if you didn’t get assigned that book in high school, look away I guess.
The villainous government in 1984 has a special “re-education” room they torture dissidents in. Famously no one knows what’s inside - but everyone knows. It’s simply “the worst thing in the world”. The surveillance state - knowing everyone’s worst fear - then puts people in contact with their worst fears in order to break their mind and coerce them to obey.
The protagonist of 1984 is pathological terrified of rats. So when the government breaks him, they lock his head in a cage with a rat in front and threaten to open the door keeping the rat away from his face…
Which is the scene above.
Okay. I’ve read the book, but it’s been a while. And I’ve never seen the movie.
Thanks
31 US states and Washington, D.C. have laws allowing forced sterilization of disabled people. It just needs a judge to sign the order.
I initially didn’t recall the “fact or piece of information” in the post title and thought, “well this is a weird tip …”
Why am I not surprised the united states of america also known as the “un-united shithole of america” legally allows eugenics
And you have those bigots in america that appoint bigoted judges if they get voted in if I recall correctly from news from america, I’m glad I don’t live in america
People in red states with a disability, I suggest you leave those states and head to a blue state away from the bigots and if you have the means to do so become an expatriate and leave the united states of america and head to a more open and progressive country
Genetically disabled people I suppose I wouldn’t be opposed to.
My family has a history of alcoholism, bipolar disorder, and depression, and a history of trauma spanning 3 generations.
One of the many reasons I’m not having kids.
This is one of those if you wouldn’t be happy it happening to yourself you shouldn’t consider it for others. In this case I feel like it would be justified but socially wrong.
A lot of problems would be solved if we were objective about our problems as human and a society.
You choosing not to have kids due to family history isn’t justification for motherfucking eugenics, you ableist.
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This is one of those if you wouldn’t be happy it happening to yourself you shouldn’t consider it for others.
Would undergoing a medical procedure without your consent also qualify?
Like a circumcision lol.
What makes you think that I thought circumcision was OK? And fo you understand in what ways sterilisation and circumcision are not medically equivalent procedures in terms of risk and recovery?
I didn’t say it was. It’s cleared you’re charged up and ready to take this conversation with a clear objective approach.
Buy a plunger before you need one.
You can always use the poop knife before you need a plunger.
Make sure you buy the correct type of plunger.
Cup plungers are meant for sinks.
Flange plungers are meant for toilets.
And if you didn’t follow this advice, soft PET plastic bottles make excellent plungers.
Always remember that this, too, shall pass.
It’s horny season again for cats. Protect your pussies, people!
Or even better, have you cat neutered before she get´s into heat. Provided your cat is not suffering from liver problems and can tolerate anaesthesia of course. Being in heat regularly without breeding is not only unnecessary stress for your cat and yourself but also promotes cancer of her reproductive organs.
Is it? Don’t female cats have irregular periods throughout the year?
I think they’re triggered by environmental conditions. In my area, they used to run about around April. But now that it’s way too warm for the time period, it started early.
If you score the two “veins” at the base of the tip, of a banana, with your thumbnail and pinch as you open it will peel open every time and you don’t have to do the upside down thing and don’t get that hard black bit.
I’ve tried and tried to figure out what this comment is talking about but absolutely can’t.
What upside down thing with a banana?? What back bit? Do people really struggle to open bananas???
Also…veins?
What upside down thing with a banana??
There was a viral video/meme maybe a decade ago about how monkeys peel bananas (might have actually been an orangutan or gorilla in the one I saw; been too long since I’ve seen it) where they peel it from the end opposite of how people are usually shown doing it. I’m guessing they mean that? Basically, instead of bending the stem bit (from where the bananas bunch up), you can pinch the tip at the other end and the peel splits open very easily – it’s easier to do, especially if the banana is still a bit on the greener side of ripeness and the stem part is flexible. (I tried it after seeing it and switched to peeling them from the “bottom” myself.)
What back bit?
There is a little black fibrous part of most Cavendish bananas near the tip I was describing; many people do not like eating it and avoid it.
Also…veins?
I’m not sure what they mean either.
When you look at the stem bit pointing out, as it goes down to the body of the banana there are two tougher lines going down either side. I suppose I should post a picture when I’m home… Or if I see a banana.
If you have recurrent anxiety-related chest pain and shortness of breath that has already been evaluated by a professional and conclusively determined to be non-cardiac in origin, here’s how differentiate the two for yourself going forward:
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Think about what your panic attacks usually feel like. I’m going to describe some common presentations, but ultimately you need to learn YOUR body and what YOUR panic attacks feel like. If something feels wildly different than usual, go get checked out again.
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Anxiety pain is usually stabbing, heart attack pain is usually heavy/crushing. (In women, however, heart attack pain is often jaw pain and indigestion).
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Anxiety pain and shortness of breath usually gets better with physical activity and getting your mind off the pain. Heart attack pain gets worse regardless, and extra worse with physical activity. So when in doubt, call or find a trusted friend, and tell them your location and that you’re pretty sure your chest pain is a panic attack, so you’re going to go on a walk or fold laundry or some other light physical activity and want them to shoot the shit with you. They will hopefully help take your mind off things, and if it turns out it is a heart attack, they can call 911.
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Make sure you don’t have GERD/indigestion/heartburn, and if you do, get it treated. Turns out that can actually feel exactly like a heart attack even to people who have had both, and it can actually be caused by stress/anxiety. I can’t tell you how many of my psych patients get passed off as simply anxious when their EKG is clear, and it turns out its GERD! Bonus protip: skim milk is the best drink (aside from water) for GERD because the calcium neutralizes the acid, but there’s no fat to be metabolized into more acid.
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Never cross anyone who has access to your toothbrush
2 Guys I know went on holiday, back in the day, disposable cameras etc. Had a great time with two ladies, all sorts happened. Came home, developed pictures, found one with the girls and their toothbrushes up their asses. They say it was a sick prank, knowing one of them well to I’m not so sure…
Its true that in life you need some luck. But luck can be made. You can carve the path and work hard for luck to come.
Rawhead and Bloody Bones will not come after you just because you’re a child who misbehaves. I misbehaved a LOT and it never came for me even though my grandmother kept threatening me.
The chupacabra isn’t real either and bones can’t be sucked out of a complex mammalian body.
Not with that attitude
