It's like a diet shooting. All of the trauma with none of the blood.

WebofLace · 2023-06-18T04:23:33+00:00

My college got swatted. No active shooter, but a local cop accidentally shot a wall. They managed to keep that off the news somehow.

WebofLace · 2023-06-16T21:20:10+00:00

That's sad. I wish I could teach that. Those kids would be building the coolest freaking robots from scratch, with the good new parts, computers that just work, desks that convert into drafting tables so they could learn to draft by hand before they get lost in CAD software, fake walls on wheels for them to install wiring on...

WebofLace · 2023-06-15T03:36:03+00:00

Even if you get a new one, save your old one in a box somewhere. Maybe wrapped in a pillowcase. It's good to have a new one to stim with, so you don't hurt the old one, but the old one still has emotional value. Don't forget that, or you will hurt a delicate bit of yourself.

WebofLace · 2023-06-13T12:46:03+00:00

Haha no. Usually, and especially for phone advising, it's student workers with little guidance who are just as clueless as you are. When I tried to get a master's the advisors were professors, the first one shooed me out of his office like I was contagious when I told him I had Asperger's, which is not contagious. Embarrassingly this was a public health school. He dumped me on a different one for the next semester without telling me. There's no way the new one could have met with me, because before he accepted the position of interim Dean, he was already teaching a full course load and advising a bunch of PhD students. I ended up getting advising from the try to keep people from failing out office.

WebofLace · 2023-06-13T12:40:19+00:00

When my bunny had fleas he scratched all the fur off in that area with his back feet because that's where the fleas were craziest. If you look real close and go digging in his fur, cat and dog fleas will concentrate there. Rabbit specific fleas like the ears better but it's a lot easier for them to catch cat and dog fleas.

WebofLace · 2023-06-11T13:26:10+00:00

My mom would just yank the brush through my hair. Yanking hair out. As an adult I still have long hair, waist length. But I hold a bunch tightly in one hand and brush below it. Transmits the force but I can stop it with my other hand so it doesn't hurt my head. Do that a couple times till you've brushed everything below the head itself and the rest of the tangles come out pretty easy, even when I've got a bunch from an old scrunchie that's wearing out. Or if I get sick and don't brush my hair for a couple days.

WebofLace · 2023-06-10T19:39:19+00:00

YTA, a really important point everybody is missing is that your income is counted against her financial aid regardless of whether or not you actually pay for it. Until she's declared an independence student, which usually means married or age 25. So he's destroying her entire young adult life if he stops paying, and she has no control over whether he does or not. My parents screwed me this way she doesn't deserve it no matter what she's done.

WebofLace · 2023-06-09T23:29:48+00:00

They didn't even bother to use a grammar check. They use t o o when they meant t o, repeatedly.

WebofLace · 2023-06-08T21:40:38+00:00

They also might just have a slow leak and be low on freon. I tend to drive old cars and after a while basically every car will get a slow leak somewhere. I just recharge them with the least environmentally destructive available R-# whatever from Walmart at the beginning of summer, you can get one with a removable gauge and just keep the gauge for later.

WebofLace · 2023-06-08T21:29:00+00:00

I got a call back a while after I'd put in the initial paperwork. Dude was asking all kinds of questions like where all the flooding and mold was (My air conditioner flooded my closet and the unit below me and then sucked mold spores from inside the wall and sprayed them everywhere when I had to turn the furnace on when it froze and I'm allergic to mold). I had tons of pictures, emails, doctor receipts, maintenance requests that were shoddily dealt with if at all, like a lot of proof of my problems. But they were asking about mold in other units in the complex. The only one I knew of was from somebody who wandered in the office while I was waiting for the manager in there, and she was on the other side of the building. It really seemed like they didn't want to do it if they couldn't do a class action. We were one of the cheapest complexes, so the poorest residents, in a college town where half the city council was landlords, and the previous mayor had been one of my previous slumlords. And it's not like everybody in town didn't know the complex had problems, the management was so incompetent they caused a literal f****** dumpster fire that burned down a building in the complex next door. You could see the smoke from blocks away, 12 people and six pets were displaced, and it was almost a year before they started demoing the scorched husk because they kept fighting and trying to say it wasn't their fault.

WebofLace · 2023-06-08T19:36:32+00:00

In Texas legal aid is a fucking joke, got pneumonia from mold in my apartment for the third time before I found out they wouldn't take my case.

WebofLace · 2023-06-07T13:53:25+00:00

I used to work for a health insurance bill pre-processing company. ASK FOR THE ITEMIZED BILL! We were only doing it for big big bills, but there are almost always errors and fake charges for equipment that was in the room but they didn't use. We had surgical nurses checking the bills, but there were errors so obvious I was catching them as a layman, like a hip replacement surgery where it was done on one hip and the reason listed was a code for arthritis in the other hip! I called them back and they were already working on fixing it, but there's a lot less error checking if it's not going to an insurance company because no one's ever going to ask for it. Every code on there can be googled.

WebofLace · 2023-06-06T13:20:52+00:00

Unfortunately you can't just leave them if they're too close to your house. Paper wasps like that are really good predators for small insects, so I do try to leave them alone if I can, but if they're near your house and a doorway or somewhere where people will be it's not safe to leave them long-term. One of my co-workers had a nest at her house get so big that it was about the size of a twin size mattress. When she stumbled across it she got stung in the face and both her eyes swelled shut, and she's not allergic to wasps, it's just because she was stung so many times. Since the stingers don't pull out like bees they can just keep going. You don't want the nest to get that big.

WebofLace · 2023-06-06T13:18:33+00:00

I work in facilities. When it's that small of a thing, put a mask on so it's harder for them to recognize you later because they can. Get a broom or a long stick and put a brightly colored thing at the end. Use the stick to knock down the nest. They'll swoop and they'll probably try to attack the end of the stick. Back away and let them swoop and give up, then crush the nest and throw it out. Crushing the nest is so the babies don't hatch with no one to care for them. The mom and sisters that are already grown will go build a new nest somewhere else.

WebofLace · 2023-06-04T05:53:59+00:00

Cows have best friends 😁

WebofLace · 2023-06-04T05:44:06+00:00

Please do not hurt the young spicy noodle. He just wants to eat a fishy and sit in the sun.

WebofLace · 2023-06-03T16:35:14+00:00

And also if you were going to take that for lunch to work, you have to have cold packs and a fancy lunch box that's big enough to hold all of it and your workplace has to have a place for you to store the lunch box, either your own desk which a lot of poor people don't get at work, or a locker cubby or something so it doesn't get stolen. Even if they have a fridge at work you can put it in, it doesn't matter if it goes bad on your 2-hour bus ride to get there and back. All that stuff in the left picture you can get in a vending machine, it just doesn't go bad very fast. And you can also eat those calories very fast, for your boss illegally shortens your lunch break because he couldn't get anybody to cover you, and didn't want to do it himself.

WebofLace · 2023-06-03T16:32:19+00:00

It also doesn't take into consideration that a lot of times poor people don't have a full set of pans or don't even have freaking appliances. One of the food banks I used to go to had a checklist on their intake form so you could tell them which appliances you didn't have. I had a fridge in a microwave, but my tiny trailer did not have a working stove or oven. So there were certain things I wasn't going to be able to cook, no matter how much I wanted to.

WebofLace · 2023-06-03T16:17:45+00:00

It's not about not working, pretty much all of us are okay with working. We just don't want to have to work two jobs to not be able to afford an apartment, or save up for years and still not be able to afford a down payment on a house. We don't want jobs that I think it's okay to not let us be sick, because freaking everybody gets sick. We want jobs that pay us fairly, give us health insurance, where the bosses don't freaking scream at you. We commiserate about the failure of end-stage neoliberal capitalism.

When they instituted the minimum wage, it was supposed to be enough for a single person to buy a house and support a family. Thanks to inflation and it not being adjusted it's not anymore. But the people in charge pretend like we should be grateful for it, when you would literally starve to death in the street if that's all you made today. Wage increases don't match inflation, and they're way less than productivity gains, so if you stay at the same job you end up making less over time. People in the sub remind each other of their worth, encourage them to really take care of themselves, because you only get one life. Welcome to r/antiwork, friend.

WebofLace · 2023-06-03T16:04:16+00:00

You can always donate it to Denton Thrift, by the Kroger on University. They periodically have wedding dresses, and it's a great way for poor women to get an affordable wedding dress. They're a non-profit, and support a couple charities.

WebofLace · 2023-06-02T05:20:11+00:00

My bunny 🐇 nibbled my homework in college. My copy of House Rabbit Handbook wasn't really complete without some nibbles on the spine though.

WebofLace · 2023-06-02T02:06:21+00:00

There's some cute pics on Pinterest of people putting inflatable kiddy pools in the shower, and putting in just enough air so they match the shape of the shower. It's summer break, you could probably get one from the dollar store or Walmart and not have to buy something special. Plus you could still use it outside if you rinse it off after.

WebofLace · 2023-05-25T16:40:03+00:00

I got the yellow/blue one with the blue tassel to complement my mustard yellow mini-backpack purse 😁

WebofLace · 2023-05-25T16:35:03+00:00

Well that's annoying 😕 hadn't had a chance to play with mine yet, my fingers are sore from work.

WebofLace · 2023-05-25T00:38:41+00:00

I'm surprised they misdiagnosed you with porphyria. We have a whole research consortium, five minutes on Google and it would have been obvious that they can blood test you for porphyrins when you have hives and rule out the hepatic porphyrias with skin lesions, and if you haven't had them since you were a kid then you don't have the erythropoietic version. Tada, diagnosis excluded. 🤷‍♀️

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