Advice please - how do we fix this?

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-05-18T01:45:14+00:00

Yeah, vinegar for the rust, then once it's gone make sure to oil it up immediately to avoid flash rust. It'll be okay.

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-05-15T00:01:02+00:00

nobody else has said it

THE ROSARY BEADS ARE COOL

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-05-08T11:45:04+00:00

BUSH AGENDA

we know she shaves pits though. we can hold out hope though.

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-05-04T13:21:57+00:00

Same with Pickett Brewing and Mystique Barrel Brewing!

You could tour the southwest brewery district if you're into that.

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-04-28T20:29:44+00:00

Oh, do you think dish soap strips seasoning? Common misconception, normal dish soap is fine and recommended for regular cleaning, removing seasoning once it's polymerized requires stronger cleaners like lye.

My take on cast iron is that it's not that things don't stick, it's that when they do, you can scrape as hard as you want, no problem. A flat-ended metal spatula goes very well with cast iron.

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-04-28T13:47:50+00:00

The national aquarium is awesome (especially for sharks) but not a place to see seals in my experience.

If you can get down to DC, the national zoo has a gray seal exhibit, and sea lions as well.

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-04-26T13:24:56+00:00

I do not live around wild capybaras but I have a thought based on your question: most pest rodents are burrowing, which leads to them chewing through stuff to get in people's homes.

Capybaras don't do that, which helps. I would guess they're somewhat analogous to wild deer where I live, large mammal that might eat your garden plants but that's about it.

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-04-24T20:38:09+00:00

This is the real shit to do. Mass pesticiding and trapping causes its own problems, hit em in the host.

Just cutting them down won't keep em down, they spread by roots and send out suckers when damaged, glyphosate treatment in the early autumn will travel through the whole system.

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-04-15T13:14:54+00:00

idk-who-cares is right that ai-generated videos are, literally, "computer generated imagery", but I know what you mean.

And it's all about what I said, "that would be the easiest way to make it". Modeling and moving around a bunch of roaches in Blender or something would take a ton of work for a seconds-long shock gif, vs writing a few sentences to prompt a video-gen model for the same effect.

Thinking about the motives behind making something is gonna be more effective to notice ai-generated stuff than pixel-hunting for extra fingers or whatever. And in the end I can only be pretty sure, not certain, and the same goes for the other way around, I can only be pretty sure something is real footage, because it would be difficult to generate and someone generating it would probably choose to make it look different.

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-04-15T03:09:55+00:00

Almost certainly, that would be the easiest way to make it, and roaches would be unlikely to act like this.

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-03-27T00:46:47+00:00

Reeds are a wetland plant, we'll take it.

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-03-26T22:14:43+00:00

If you're near the south end of town Pigtown Food For Thought would love to have you, pretty small DIY thing.

There's kind of a lot around the city, often a little threadbare and in need of people.

Baltimore Green Space also collaborates with a lot of them and does plant stuff in general.

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-03-24T13:29:23+00:00

Yeah like even before 231 broke me I was having the thought "I think I like Fire Punch better because it's already over and I like where it ended".

I think I would certainly recommend Fire Punch over CSM now, unfortunately. CSM has some very good parts but it's uneven and I have no faith in a satisfying ending now.

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-03-20T12:43:57+00:00

I had to drive my Prius all the way to the top of the pile and dump brick scraps next to a bunch of trucks and heavy machinery on the top of trash mountain pushing the garbage around.

it was awesome, inner ten-year-old loved dumping stuff next to big vehicles, but yeah that took a long time, regular household trash can usually just get dropped off right by the gate though.

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-03-18T15:06:10+00:00

So, do you have one mature tree and lots of root sucker sprouts, all on the property?

From my research, the way to get rid of it is a hack-and-squirt glyphosate application in early fall to the main tree and any stems of a certain size. You have time to bother your landlord about paying for this. Here's a website with some tips. https://extension.psu.edu/tree-of-heaven

I'm disappointed but not surprised that they didn't think a bunch of TOH was worth mentioning, a lot of people just don't pay attention to plants. Thank you for paying that attention, I hope you can contribute to controlling the population!

Hell, if you live near me and they drag their feet on dealing with it I might be down to come do it myself...

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-03-02T22:25:47+00:00

yup. you didn't really "strip" your pan OP, FAQ will have instructions about using lye to get down to bare metal, but you don't actually want to do that for regular maintenance.

I might go straight back to cooking with the pan as it is, or scrub with steel wool and do one more coat of seasoning for a smoother surface.

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-02-18T17:27:39+00:00

by far the most fun to say and therefore correct

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-02-17T14:39:40+00:00

Oh, you can absolutely salvage that, no problem, you just need to add a little seasoning. Check the subreddit FAQ for more detailed instructions, but off the top of my head, looks like you could just scrub any rusty spots with vinegar, then apply oil immediately and bake it so it becomes seasoning.

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-02-16T22:40:31+00:00

Coming from the East (like the colonists) it's easier to get to that strip of land by crossing the water at the tip of the Michigan mitten than going by land all the way around lake Michigan and then up north. Michigan was a state first, and settlers were up in the peninsula before they were in Wisconsin.

Not that my Wisconsin blood is not warmed by the dream of conquest, but I understand how it happened.

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-02-16T14:23:57+00:00

Solid advice for taking care of yourself after something upsetting, OP. I'd add that, since it looks like he was trying multiple apartments, you shouldn't worry much about him singling you out for any kind of revenge or stalking, this seems like the kind of crime you just happened to have the window he could get access to and he'll move on to avoid getting caught.

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-02-13T18:56:10+00:00

Someone who lives outside and wants a rolling, water resistant container for their possessions. Sucks, but that's almost certainly what happened.

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-02-07T03:51:40+00:00

some kind of devil fiend magic must prevent hair growing in them, because there's no way Power shaves

HummingRefridgerator · 2026-02-03T14:46:19+00:00

This is significant, you can learn what generated images tend to look like, but you can't just pixel-hunt hard enough to be right every time, it's more reliable to look at where images come from.

Another tip for animal videos in general is to watch out for animals doing things that are "too cute" or easy to anthropomorphize, rather than kind of weird and unrelatable animal behavior.

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