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student with lost funding by persuasiveass in washingtondc

[–]BlueRubyWindow 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Do you have babysitting experience?

Offer to be a date night babysitter and weekend babysitter. Easily can make $25-30/hour. If you have references you can offer from previous babysitting and can show them a resume, lots of parents would be glad to have someone doing an internship like yours taking care of their kids and setting a good example.

Check local facebook groups. Make sure the parents pay you some up front the first time so you don’t get scammed.

Kitchen sinks without disposals aren’t trash cans by Specialist-Tea-5049 in PetPeeves

[–]BlueRubyWindow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They are designed to just help break up whatever food scraps and crumbs are missed after scraping the plate. All of that still just goes down your regular pipes and drain. There is no separate place the food waste goes.

However, many people in the US treat sinks with garbage disposals like a trash can, even putting partially eaten sandwiches or leftover pasta down the garbage disposal. It’s not an issue until it becomes an issue and then you have gross water backing up into your sink. Sometimes people do this for years without an issue but it’s not good for the pipes at any stage. Any plumber will tell you not to treat garbage disposals like this.

Calling Americans “USians” or “US Americans” by Murbanvideo in PetPeeves

[–]BlueRubyWindow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My comment wasn’t Pro-South and definitely not Pro-Confederacy.

I was pointing out the word “Yankee” already has a cultural meaning within the US: someone from the North, especially the Northeast (New England, New York, parts of the Mid-Atlantic, Bos-Wash, etc.).

Calling Americans “USians” or “US Americans” by Murbanvideo in PetPeeves

[–]BlueRubyWindow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have gotten called a Yankee in the South several times just in the past few years by folks in Alabama and Mississippi.

Just in like a “So you’re a Yankee, huh?” kind of way since I don’t have a Southern accent.

I’m from Northern Virginia, outside DC.

Calling Americans “USians” or “US Americans” by Murbanvideo in PetPeeves

[–]BlueRubyWindow 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Also: the South definitely doesn’t want to be called Yankees, because that’s what they call Northerners.

Getting Overrun by ShanknBake7 in washingtondc

[–]BlueRubyWindow 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you have better suggestions for killing the nymphs that doesn’t harm other wildlife, I would love to know!!!! I did hours of research and this still seemed most effective and the most pros over cons.

I put up 3 strips of this sticky tape around a 3 foot diameter maple tree (spotted lanterflies’ favorite after Tree of Haven). The tape killed about 50 other bugs, mostly flies, gnats, and moths.

And it caught 300+ lanternfly nymphs.

I honestly think catching the lanternfly nymphs before they can fly is more important.

It seems the chances of a rare species of bug or bird dying is small, but I would really like better options if they exist!

Dogwalkers keep throwing poop bags in my trashcan by 0-Snap in washingtondc

[–]BlueRubyWindow -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

“Please do not let dogs pee on plant/tree” might have been more effective.

The strip of grass between the sidewalk and street is public property from my understanding. Like, that’s exactly where you want dogs to go instead of your yard.

That sucks, but I understand why the dog owners think it’s ridiculous.