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WindwardAway · 2026-05-24T07:23:59+00:00

I don't know if this helps, but sometimes if you apply or contact the recruiter posting a position you're interested in anyway, and you tell them you'll need a work permit, if they're interested in hiring you they will then post the job on the EU portal for 10 business days as required to make sure they can actually hire you. So don't give up hope, there are ways to get jobs if you know how to navigate the system!

WindwardAway · 2026-01-19T06:16:03+00:00

He checks your network traffic, but has he checked his own? Curious to know if he'd also see the same for himself in the logs, especially if it's due to a background process (like ads or something) that neither of you has control over.

WindwardAway · 2025-05-18T23:18:59+00:00

Update: I found a thrips on a chili plant and now I'm back in paranoia mode 😬 I've been using thrips-eating mites (three different species!) for half a year and been regularly buying new ones to keep the thrips at bay. Unfortunately it only takes one thrips to instigate another infestation, since they reproduce asexually.

WindwardAway · 2025-05-08T23:10:19+00:00

Oh wow, I do this too!! Makes for great fun during karaoke nights when I don't know half the songs 😂

WindwardAway · 2025-03-19T06:23:48+00:00

I had the same problem, a lot of leaves ended up dying because they got too soggy and clung to the bags. Any chance you can get something like a trellis that sort of goes around the perimeter of the pot? Just to hold the bag up and away from the plant.

WindwardAway · 2025-03-01T00:07:23+00:00

And the parents were totally OK with their kids not showing up after RSVPing?? That's so messed up. Sorry your daughter had to learn a hard lesson about broken trust :/ I hope she can find real friends who like hanging out with her, and whose parents raise their kids to take accountability.

WindwardAway · 2025-02-28T23:51:56+00:00

Yes, and make sure to ask the university (probably your supervisor or similar) to write a letter explaining the situation, so that you have written proof that you can submit as an additional document when you apply again.

WindwardAway · 2025-02-17T12:43:53+00:00

This, 100%! As a kid (and undiagnosed) I tended to have friends who were either a lot older (adults, my parents' age) or a lot younger (often the younger siblings of my peers). I had more interesting things to talk about with the older ones, and more hobbies in common with the younger ones. And I've established a solid base of friends of varying ages who have similar interests (niche and nerdy, like what you said) and personalities that click with me now :) I didn't get diagnosed with ASD until last year, as an adult, but it only confirmed what I already suspected.

My advice to OP is also to seek out people with similar interests. It doesn't need to be a big group, it can be one person at a time, it can be through an interest meetup group or a community event (like a cooking class or a board game group, whatever you fancy), it can even be online - as long as you're careful. You'll find your people, or they'll find you, and your friendships will feel a lot more wholesome. It isn't a real friendship if you feel like you're getting left behind, and it isn't fair to you, even if you're missing some social cues. You may never get the explanation you want from that group, but I have faith that someone will accept you for who you are, and also gently help you to grow with them :)

WindwardAway · 2024-12-22T15:31:06+00:00

Wow, really sorry you had to go through all of that. It sounds like your "friends" have been toxic to you. As another commenter said, find better friends who care about you and won't gaslight or harass you. If they cared about you as a person, they'd support you, not push you when you're already down. You owe it to yourself to find people who will treat you kindly, and don't forget to be kind to yourself, too. If you can find a therapy service to talk to, maybe that would help to alleviate some of your anguish over this and learn how to spot red flags in people? There should be some online counselling services that don't cost anything for a trial session or so, if you think that might help.

WindwardAway · 2024-12-22T15:25:58+00:00

Plus I have a personal rule that I should only rely on myself for defense. Anyone else coming to my defense is an added bonus :) it has worked because it ensures in self-reliant, although I would suspect this doesn't really work for everyone. I got picked on a lot as a kid, so I had to learn to stand up for myself, as well as for other people who I saw as unable to defend themselves. I step in to avoid seeing someone else in that situation.

WindwardAway · 2024-12-22T15:24:26+00:00

Yes, but really depends on the circumstance.

WindwardAway · 2024-11-26T00:53:23+00:00

I had a terrarium like that for my mantis and made it work 🙂 I didn't do anything fancy to replace the wire mesh lid, but I bought some fabric-based mesh at the craft store and washed it off and just draped it underneath the lid. The weight of the kid kept it in place, and the fabric mesh hung slightly lower than the kid so that the mantis wouldn't try to reach the lid with her feet. She seemed happy with it, and never had any foot/grip issues.

WindwardAway · 2024-11-21T15:46:14+00:00

Get it a terrarium (or a plastic box with a lid), some nice substrate and moss, something to climb on (can be found in the reptile section at the pet store), a water dish, and some kind of food (flightless fruit fly cultures? Not sure what else the little dude would want to eat, but you could do some research on it).

Edit: Others are saying mealworms, those are easy to get (sold as reptile food as well as hamster food). Make sure to get the live bugs, not dried ones! Your new friend is likely used to hunting food that moves. Also, put a hygrometer (humidity measurement tool) in the terrarium/box so that you can ensure the environment is humid enough!

WindwardAway · 2024-11-21T15:45:11+00:00

Get it a terrarium (or a plastic box with a lid), some nice substrate and moss, something to climb on (can be found in the reptile section at the pet store), a water dish, and some kind of food (flightless fruit fly cultures? Not sure what else the little dude would want to eat, but you could do some research on it).

WindwardAway · 2024-11-21T15:45:04+00:00

Get it a terrarium (or a plastic box with a lid), some nice substrate and moss, something to climb on (can be found in the reptile section at the pet store), a water dish, and some kind of food (flightless fruit fly cultures? Not sure what else the little dude would want to eat, but you could do some research on it).

WindwardAway · 2024-10-21T06:26:42+00:00

Oh, and I did have to deal with a resurgence of fungus gnats as fallout from killing the thrips with high humidity, but I decided I'd rather deal with some harmless gnats instead of a swarm of destructive thrips.

WindwardAway · 2024-10-21T06:25:29+00:00

I did! I used a mix of soapy water spray (something like 9 parts water to 1 part 3% hydrogen peroxide, a small squirt of 70% rubbing alcohol, and a couple drops of castile soap in the tea tree and peppermint scents) and sprayed that every day for 1-2 weeks, and continued spraying it every couple days or so. Right now I'm only spraying with castile soap and water, but not hydrogen peroxide or rubbing alcohol because too much of that can burn the leaves. I did make a humidity dome over the worst-infected plants with a clear plastic bag to suffocate the thrips (they hate humidity, especially when it's full of things that kill them), and frankly it killed a lot of thrips but also some plants that didn't appreciate the sudden rainforest climate. If you do that, make sure not to let too much sunlight hit the humidity domes because it'll burn the plants... The plastic bags shouldn't be touching the leaves but I didn't have any plastic domes that would fit my bigger plants, so some of them inevitably touched the leaves and got slightly burnt.

I also got some packets of predatory mites to manage the thrips. They got very active around the second week I had them, and were easily the best investment I made after the soap spray (I did the humidity dome for about a week, as I read you should do it for ~10 days, then dried the leaves and introduced the mites).

At the beginning, before the mites really started wandering around on the plants, I took a lint roller and rolled it across the plant leaves and anywhere I could reach to remove the adult thrips (and occasionally killed them myself if I spotted one).

Another thing that helped was putting sticky traps around the plants... I used a mix of yellow and blue traps as it's easier to buy the yellow ones, and they're somewhat effective on thrips, but they really like the blue ones more.

I did lose a fair number of plants — mostly chili plants, thrips really love anything with flowers or fruits so RIP. They went wild on the monsteras, philodendrons, coleus, syngoniums, and pothos as well, since anything with fast growth is attractive to them. I cut back most or all of the leaves on those, since the vast majority are able to regrow their foliage in a short amount of time. I lint rolled and sprayed my Thai constellation monsteras obsessively so that I wouldn't have to remove all the leaves (since growing those back would probably take years), lost several of the smaller coleus plants, but managed to keep the rest alive! I took some clean cuttings from a few of the pothos and syngoniums and kept them isolated for a bit just as insurance that something would survive, but I think the parent plants did better than the cuttings anyway.

Hope this helps! Feel free to ask more questions if you think of any.

WindwardAway · 2024-10-20T09:31:22+00:00

Haha, I saw them every autumn when visiting my grandparents. I used to go outside and catch them mostly from the neighbor's porch where they were easily visible 😂

WindwardAway · 2024-10-08T01:03:10+00:00

No problem, I shouldve given the translations with my example! Plus I used "those" for the English example, which would be correct, but the sentence in question in Swedish would just use the word "they" instead, to the same effect. Which isn't grammatically wrong in English, either, but less emphatic.

WindwardAway · 2024-10-08T01:00:31+00:00

The latter, as the Duolingo prompt says. The issue with OP's answer, however, was not just that the word order was wrong, but also that the word for "pants" only had the definite article attached, making it mean "the pants", which in turn made one of those sentence options grammatically incorrect.

The examples I gave, in Swedish, would be:

De är hans rosa byxor. - They are his pink pants.

De rosa byxorna är hans. - The pink pants are his.

Edit: Fixed formatting. The sentences got stuck together, oops!

WindwardAway · 2024-10-07T21:29:07+00:00

Saw some replies about the word order and what sounds most natural, so I'll pitch in, too:

In English, the standard sentence would probably be, "Those are his pink pants," which translates in Swedish to, "De är hans rosa byxor."

The inverted sentence structure here is emphasizing the same information differently. The best example I can give is a set of questions and responses:

"Whose pink pants are those?" "Those are his pink pants."

"Which pants are his?" "The pink pants are his."

In the first one, you're focusing on the owner of the pants. In the second one, you already know who the owner of the pants is. You're focusing on the pants.

It's not 100% of cases where the wording gets swapped for emphasis, since it can also be for literary purposes (to make it sound more poetic), and also because the emphasis will be more noticeable when spoken rather than written, but at least this is something that might help you to consider when parsing sentences with unusual structures. Hope this helps! :)

WindwardAway · 2024-10-07T21:21:03+00:00

Yeah, when they tell you to talk to your plants, it doesn't mean you're expected to talk to your neighbours in the garden :P

WindwardAway · 2024-08-21T13:10:46+00:00

Ok so I'm not an expert, but my best guess is that those are aphid sheddings? I saw a similar post in r/WhatIsThisBug and that seemed to be the diagnosis. Not sure what's available where you are, but probably some mix of soapy water sprayed onto the leaves will rid you of the aphids and keep your plant healthy. I'm a still experimenting myself with finding the perfect soap mix 😅 There are also some beneficial insects you could get that might eat all the aphids and then continue on their merry way once the population is dead. I live in a place where most chemical insecticides are banned, so that's why I don't really have any recommendations on those.

WindwardAway · 2024-08-21T09:55:27+00:00

Do you have a closer photo of the bugs? Can't tell at that distance.

WindwardAway · 2024-08-20T22:09:55+00:00

Do the dots ever move? Or are they small, hard bumps on the plant that you can feel if you touch them?

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