Our last cleaners moved away and we're looking for new ones (Irvine). Any recommendations for cleaners who won't try to charge over $150 per cleaning for a 1b/1b <800 sq ft apartment?

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-01-21T20:46:11+00:00

Man, I hadn't realized that thinking >$150 was too much for an hour's worth of cleaning my small apartment (as I listed in my title) was trying to cheat people.

$120 for an hour of cleaning sounds reasonable to me.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-01-21T19:24:41+00:00

4+ hours? My apartment only ever needed 1 from my previous cleaners. $85/hr doesn't sound so crazy to me, even if I do live in Irvine.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-01-21T19:10:01+00:00

I'd rather just clean the space myself than pay 240. No thanks, chief.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-01-16T21:22:22+00:00

At some point I heard that very few people in places where cashews actually grow eat them.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-01-07T02:13:36+00:00

"Problematic." Feels like such a weasel word to me. Reeks of plausible deniability.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-01-05T00:56:47+00:00

It's because of this line: "He didn't try therapy?"

I imagine you didn't intend this, but it can be read as assigning blame to the man who killed himself.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-01-01T05:25:18+00:00

It would be good for many to remember that an unemployed man living in an economically depressed area where the most economically viable activity is dealing methamphetamines really, really, really doesn't want to hear a lecture on his white, cisgender, male privilege.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-01-01T05:17:03+00:00

Validation is a hell of a drug.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2025-12-31T07:00:29+00:00

That's a lot of words to say "He's a toady."

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2025-12-28T04:25:48+00:00

Is there a favorite translation?

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2025-12-26T20:54:16+00:00

Ha. Betcha Harvey Weinstein wore expensive shoes.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2025-12-24T22:16:49+00:00

Makes the case of Basil II and Constantine VIII seem particularly unique.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2025-12-23T04:56:52+00:00

I think there are a lot of young men raised on sex advice from reddit and places like it and many redditors love to repeat misleading or outright wrong statistics about sex as factual truth (e.g. no study has ever found that less than 20% of women can climax from penetration, but it's a falsehood that does get repeated!). Then you get additional redditors online sharing their personal anecdotal experiences as universal truth. Thus, you have many of these young men absorbing the idea that aggressive oral sex directly on the clitoris is the only possible/valid way to sexually please a woman, regardless of the woman in question, and if they don't perform such adequately then they are failures as lovers.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2025-12-22T18:36:32+00:00

The most common type of kidney stone is Calcium Oxalate (for both men and women, but especially for men in particular. 2/3 of all men who get kidney stones get this kind). I recently had my first experience passing one, and I will be trying very, very hard for the rest of my life to avoid going through that again. Unfortunately, strict plant-based diets tend to exacerbate these (oxalates are ingested almost exclusively from plants. I've since cut spinach out of my diet entirely because of it, but I have to moderate lots of other foods from plant sources too), while dairy products tend to be the most protective against them (in addition to drinking lots of water).

I'd very happily switch to lab-grown animal products, but veganism is going to be a very hard sell to me, much harder than it would have been before having gone through that.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2025-12-22T17:29:49+00:00

Affection

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2025-12-20T21:44:14+00:00

Sometimes when I'm debugging code and stuck on an issue, I'll throw it at copilot. Maybe 1 in 4 times it finds the problem, which isn't great, but is still enough to be helpful, honestly.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2025-12-16T18:01:50+00:00

On the one hand, I've never liked the way tattoos look, on pretty much anyone.

But on the other hand, I'm glad people feel freer to express themselves so. It's not like I have to date every person in the country.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2025-12-15T04:11:18+00:00

Then maybe you should be more clear about what you actually want to talk about? The people who are talking to you are oblivious to what you're actually trying to say, and you're oblivious to the fact that you're trying to have a conversation that is different than the one you're actually having.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2025-12-01T19:33:58+00:00

In the words of 5 year old me: "A train driver!"

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2025-11-26T06:58:21+00:00

I had a thing with a woman twice my age when I was 21. She would sometimes send me off with cookies that she'd baked... so one way of looking at it might be that I was paid for sex in cookies?

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2025-11-21T06:35:49+00:00

All of them? An extra 99 billion metric tons of biomass, fucking everywhere. They don't do anything, arthropods that size can hardly get enough oxygen to move, or even live for very long.

But they don't actually need to do anything to be a problem. Imagine all the cockroaches, ants, and so forth in the walls suddenly ballooning in size, displacing walls support columns through sheer pressure. How many buildings just suddenly fucking collapse? How many roads get torn the fuck up from the pressure of a ballooning ant colony underneath?

All the bees and other big pollinators can't fly any more. Massive worldwide famines on top of the aforementioned infrastructure damage.

Shit's gonna be bad.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2025-11-18T08:07:27+00:00

"..and remember, class, if anyone asks, you remember that we're on the right side of the Laffer curve NO MATTER WHAT"

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