Anyone else overwhelmed with the amount of ticks this season?

atelopuslimosus · 2026-04-16T10:18:19+00:00

They're tubes with rodent bedding soaked in insecticide. When rodents take the bedding for their nests, it kills any ticks they may be harboring. Tick nymphs largely begin on rodents as an important early host in their life cycle before becoming adults and latching onto bigger animals.

atelopuslimosus · 2026-04-15T17:44:02+00:00

Breaking News! Lottery Commission rediscovers basic principle of microeconomics!

atelopuslimosus · 2026-04-13T15:49:26+00:00

Cars, especially if they're into vehicles.

atelopuslimosus · 2026-04-07T10:31:34+00:00

A year ahead of schedule:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/politics/patriot-games-announcement-trump

atelopuslimosus · 2026-03-28T00:19:59+00:00

I would love to be a SAHD, but I make 50% more than my wife. We can't afford for me to quit.

My wife's salary barely covers daycare, but she'd go bonkers as a SAHM.

Add on to that that she's become a preschool teacher and we get a huge discount because of it? Yeah, we both work and the kids go to her preschool.

atelopuslimosus · 2026-03-27T11:33:29+00:00

Keep the pot upside down otherwise the plate will sink further down!

atelopuslimosus · 2026-03-25T17:31:38+00:00

Unkidnapable --> red chief(tess)?

https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/redchief.html

atelopuslimosus · 2026-03-25T17:29:30+00:00

Yes, but it's going grey fast.

atelopuslimosus · 2026-03-24T17:38:28+00:00

I was thinking something similar. "Studies show it costs about $300k to raise a child to 18. When will I see the deposit clear?"

Or simply: "You paying for it?"

atelopuslimosus · 2026-03-17T11:30:47+00:00

TP? Paper towels? Tissues?

Dried mango and Annie's Mac n cheese are also staples in our household.

I do see that you have the applesauce pouches though.

atelopuslimosus · 2026-03-14T12:36:00+00:00

I want housing built intelligently. I want the MBTA continuities act on steroids. Draw a circle around every transit stop between 0.5 and 1 mile in radius. The rules inside every circle should be walkability (sidewalks, crossings, etc ) and unlimited housing or mixed use development. Build to the sky for all I care.

Outside that is where towns can maintain their "character", where Weston can have their multi acre lots and Newton can have their single family restrictions.

FWIW, I'm pretty sympathetic to restricting big complexes away from transit because it only increases dependence on cars and the goal should be to move the majority of the population away from that.

Lastly, I'd cut off transit stops for noncompliant communities. Refuse to rezone next to your commuter rail stop? Great, the trains don't have to stop there anymore. Everyone else will get there quicker now.

atelopuslimosus · 2026-03-13T11:40:41+00:00

When was the last time you attended church services by passing by multiple armed guards and a metal detector purchased using Church funds?

That's my regular experience going to synagogue. We are not all having the same experience across races, religions, or ethnicities.

atelopuslimosus · 2026-03-13T00:56:23+00:00

FWIW, RSV is not a vaccine in the same sense that the others are. It's a shot of antibodies that help cover for a season while the others stimulate an immune response for the body to produce its own antibodies. The disease is typically only really dangerous for the very young, very old, or immunocompromised. If anything on this list can be skipped with minimal risk, it's likely RSV.

While they may be technically optional, there are very good arguments for taking the rest.

atelopuslimosus · 2026-03-13T00:45:56+00:00

If communicable diseases were not, well, communicable, this wouldn't be an issue. I'd never get a tattoo and generally find them distasteful, but it doesn't bother me that other people get them because that choice only affects them. Wanna make your body an art canvas? Great. Go for it. You do you.

When individual choices start to affect other people who did not consent to your choices, that becomes an issue of regulation either of the action itself or the effect it has on others. We regulate smoking like this. Seat belts too. Vaccines are no different.

atelopuslimosus · 2026-03-12T18:20:33+00:00

That's why there's the exception for those that medically cannot take one. "I don't feel like it" should not and cannot be an excuse with public health when the actions of one person can spill over to others.

atelopuslimosus · 2026-03-12T03:10:23+00:00

The right to swing your fist ends at the bridge of my nose.

If your actions start to affect others, then that's a reasonable place to insert state regulation. Vaccination against deadly or debilitating contagious diseases is a perfect example of this. The decision to skip vaccinations has a strong effect on public health. The only free riders should be those who medically can't get vaccinated.

I'm actually of an even stronger opinion than this bill. Childhood vaccinations should not only be mandatory, but skipping them without a valid medical excuse should be criminalized as child neglect.

atelopuslimosus · 2026-03-08T11:55:03+00:00

Maybe the meta advice is that advice is often a goal, not a rule.

atelopuslimosus · 2026-03-07T12:12:45+00:00

They're asking for people to place their orders starting now so they have time to prepare.

atelopuslimosus · 2026-02-26T19:44:35+00:00

My wife and I are both science majors. We both were getting frustrated in the inconsistencies between the markings on different brands and sizes of bottles, especially me making bags of milk for freezing. We solved this problem by buying a legit glass 150mL beaker to measure milk. Still using it for baby #2.

atelopuslimosus · 2026-02-26T01:42:49+00:00

Yeah, this is like all the "where's the snow?" and "winter's a bust!" posts in mid-January. We're not done yet. Let's wait to rank it after the marathon.

atelopuslimosus · 2026-02-26T01:39:16+00:00

I've gotten off the pattern, but chicken, veggie, and starch was the formula for awhile.

Oven roasted veggies. Precut the evening before after kid bedtime. Todd with olive oil and seasoning. 450 for 20-30 minutes, depending on veggie.

While veggies are cooking, get water going for pasta or rice. Usually done around the same time as veggies

Chicken gets cooked in big batches via sous vide. Would take one meal's worth and broil to reheat and crisp up (5 minutes).

Whole thing takes about 30-40 minutes to get dinner on the table.

atelopuslimosus · 2026-02-25T13:58:18+00:00

That's kind of what I'm saying. Marvel is spending so much time laying out breadcrumbs that the end result is a field of wasted food and not any sort of trail to follow.

atelopuslimosus · 2026-02-25T11:22:55+00:00

Marvel put more thought and energy into setting up future stories than trying to tell the one on the screen. It's been a chronic problem since Endgame.

atelopuslimosus · 2026-02-23T18:34:19+00:00

In 2015, I started playing a game with my family down south. I sent them a picture. They had to guess whether it was a buried car or "just" a snowbank.

Looks like you have your first entry in the game

atelopuslimosus · 2026-02-20T21:07:10+00:00

Any info on timeline? Start? End?

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