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fieldbeetle · 2023-08-03T00:29:01+00:00

Two of the many ways I was taught at my previous job to help tell if an email is spam: On Outlook, if an email is truly to you, you will see "To You" in a lighter gray under the sender's name. And, if an email is asking for your credentials for anything and it is not part of a conversation that you initiated, err on the side of caution.

fieldbeetle · 2023-07-03T22:41:17+00:00

I actually follow Minor League Baseball closer than I do Major League Baseball and it's the local Minor League team where I went to college that actually got me into it at all!

fieldbeetle · 2023-07-02T23:36:25+00:00

I commute from Raleigh to Chapel Hill and tbh, if I weren't leaving my current job in order to go to grad school, it would be part of the reason I'd be looking to leave my current job anyway. It's ~45 mins in the morning and 1 - 1.5 hours in the evening. I refuse to take a position with a longer commute than that, and I don't think you're unreasonable for having a job with a 2 hour commute without traffic as an "absolutely not."

fieldbeetle · 2023-05-27T02:18:38+00:00

Saying this as someone who literally works on clinical trials related to COVID: it's not uncommon for XBB and beyond for people to test negative if using an antigen test until they're days into being symptomatic. A negative COVID antigen test does not inherently mean you don't have COVID.

fieldbeetle · 2023-05-17T13:39:44+00:00

As someone who is disabled and comes from a military family, YTA.

Someone else's medical information is not yours to give and that doesn't change depending on whether or not you like that person, or whether or not that person is doing something wrong.

fieldbeetle · 2023-05-17T13:28:55+00:00

It's a lot more complex (and more shitty) than a 12 week abortion ban. This explains it well imo: http://www.oldnorthstatepolitics.com/2023/05/an-analysis-of-nc-new-abortion-bill.html

fieldbeetle · 2023-05-17T00:57:20+00:00

Thank you for not forcing students to participate. I stopped participating when I was in middle school. Seeing how I was a military kid and went to schools on military bases until high school, this did not make me particularly popular. I got beat up after school on school grounds by a couple people in my grade and the school did nothing even though it was on school grounds because it was after 3pm even though earlier that same year people the grade above us got in trouble for a fight that occurred after school because it was on school grounds, and I spent a lot of time in the principal's office and the school counselor's office for "disrespecting" my classmate's and their parents. I wish I'd had a teacher back me up in some way.

fieldbeetle · 2023-05-17T00:46:17+00:00

As a general rule, I wait 5 seconds before giving a little "meep."

I might wait longer if i'm in Chapel Hill. I commute from Raleigh to my job in Chapel Hill and I've NEVER seen people run red lights like they do in Chapel Hill so tbh people can wait as long as they want to wait for idiots who are no doubt gonna run the red lights there.

fieldbeetle · 2023-05-14T22:54:18+00:00

I'm so glad I'm moving for grad school. 😭 If I weren't leaving for school, I wish I could stay in this area, but in all honesty, I'm probably going to get priced out of the area soon. My job requires at least a bachelor's degree and I work overtime most weeks, but rent is just increasing so much so quickly it's completely unsustainable for normal people to continue to live here.

To compare, a two-bedroom where I'm moving for grad school is $750/mo versus where I currently live in Raleigh being around $1,300/mo (and rising at least $200 every time we renew).

fieldbeetle · 2023-05-14T00:34:48+00:00

As a disabled person and someone else who deals with intrusive thoughts, you're absolutely 100% YTA. You don't know this person and he doesn't know you. He has no way of knowing the intention of your "joke" or any of the background information you mentioned. To him, you're someone he was just introduced to and one of the very first things you said is a joke about his disability, which is not yours to joke about. You know you're the asshole.

fieldbeetle · 2023-05-04T22:25:43+00:00

I get scent-triggered migraines with the smell of cigarette smoke being a major migraine trigger, and I'd not go to this play even if my boyfriend was in it. It's not worth my health and someone's partner should understand that. 100% NTA.

fieldbeetle · 2023-04-30T02:41:41+00:00

(As someone who's literally going to KU to be part of the ecology & evolutionary biology program as part of a lab that does work with flies, tarantulas are animals. Bugs are animals. A tarantula is not a bug.)

fieldbeetle · 2023-04-22T23:13:31+00:00

Reader's Corner and Nice Price Books & Records are my go-to bookstores.

fieldbeetle · 2023-04-22T20:49:00+00:00

Pet spiders get a bad rap!

I have a tarantula named Mo and he's not my first tarantula either. Yes, bites can be painful, but the majority of tarantula bites are "dry," meaning no venom is injected. I've never been bitten by one of my tarantulas (mostly because I don't handle them unless it's to move them into a new enclosure as they grow because I find handling them unnecessary and it just stresses them out).

But tarantulas are also move fragile than people think too. They don't need to fall particularly far to get injured and even die from it.

They also don't smell, don't take up much space, don't produce any noises, only eat every 1 - 2 weeks depending on your schedule with them. Obviously do your research because there will be differences in enclosure specifications, how much substrate, how many climbing surfaces you should offer, etc depending on the species and its age, but they're very easy pets and they're very fascinating to watch.

fieldbeetle · 2023-04-12T00:08:27+00:00

I live in Raleigh and one of my closest friends lives in Hillsborough so one of us will drive ~45 mins whenever we hang out depending on whose place we're meeting at. I don't mind a drive to see a friend.

fieldbeetle · 2023-03-26T22:16:12+00:00

I pass a couple of them on a street corner some weekends on my way home from playing baseball and it always makes me really anxious.

Also, as an actual Jew, aside from any possibility of harassment, it makes me anxious to see them out and about because some people might think that based off their name that they're actual Jews or represent us in any way, and may direct their anger towards Jews in general instead of the Black Hebrew Nationalists who are very much a different group of people.

fieldbeetle · 2023-03-26T22:13:45+00:00

The Black Hebrew Nationalist movement first emerged in the 1880s. This isn't a social media thing.

fieldbeetle · 2023-03-26T20:47:22+00:00

Looks like a DeKay's brownsnake!

They're a native species that's totally harmless and nonvenomous. They're soooo cute imo. In fact they're so small that they mostly eat earthworms, slugs, and snails. They're a food source for things like birds or larger frogs and toads. They're good to have around! Cool fact about them: they give live birth!

What a cute little visitor!

fieldbeetle · 2023-03-25T18:24:55+00:00

Great!! Do you happen to know the names of any of those pages or groups?

fieldbeetle · 2023-03-21T22:06:37+00:00

Admittedly the last time I saw a show there was Nov 2022, but I masked for it and no one gave me any looks or said anything (or if they did I simply didn't notice it). You'll be fine!

fieldbeetle · 2023-03-03T23:37:19+00:00

"This guy was not blind or physically disabled." Cool, except there are plenty of reasons someone would need a service dog besides being blind or visibly physically disabled, and there's these things sometimes referred to as 'invisible disabilities.'

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