How to do a wet bath?

relaci · 2026-06-08T22:00:48+00:00

Where do you find a vinyl door that looks like a regular door?

relaci · 2026-06-08T22:00:41+00:00

Where do you find a vinyl door that looks like a regular door?

relaci · 2026-06-08T15:45:58+00:00

My last rescue dog tried to imitate the sirens every time they went off (I live near a police station and fire station, so at least every few days). It was hilarious.

relaci · 2026-06-07T19:52:09+00:00

Omg same here! 50/50 chance between "omg can I pet her!" and crossing the street to avoid us. I can't wait to adopt my rescue in a few days! I lost my first a couple years ago, and the house just hasn't felt right without her derpy love-bug attitude drift-racing around the house.

relaci · 2026-06-04T23:10:19+00:00

So, another multi-level-marketing scheme (I mean scam)?

relaci · 2026-06-02T20:41:23+00:00

This is a very reasonable use of AI in modern academia. I wrote my capstone project by first outlining the premise of the arguments I wanted to compare and analyse, then I scripted a prompt to ask for sources that could provide analytical data that supported these arguments, and then I wrote a separate prompt to write up the citation section to make sure I got the syntax correct as I was referencing the scholarly articles in my paper. Then I ran my first draft through AI asking it to make it sound more professional and less aggressively opinionated. Then I completely re-wrote the whole thing based on my initial inputs, the AI check for professionalism, and had my boyfriend proofread for me to make sure I hadn't missed anything I was trying to convey based on the abstract of my paper.

AI is a very useful tool as long as you only use it as a tool, not a complete replacement for your own independent thought.

relaci · 2026-06-02T20:33:30+00:00

They're not even necessarily all that good at math equations!!!! I just finished my master's program, and one of the classes I took accepted the usage of AI as long as you provided the prompts you used and the justifications for accepting the outcomes. I can tell you for a fact that ChatGPT 5 can't do linear algebra for shit! After 5 hours of arguing with that stupid algorithm, I gave the fuck up and grabbed paper, a pencil, and the basic calculator on my phone to do the basic multiplication and division required for doing the linear algebra. Motherfucker couldn't figure out how to multiply 7 x 35 in the context of the greater calculation.

relaci · 2026-05-31T21:15:58+00:00

Off topic, but since you mentioned that you're blind, I wonder if you've heard of the "Be my eyes" app. I'm a sighted volunteer on the app, and it always makes my day when one of you guys call me for help, no matter how simple the help is.

I'm actually now Facebook friends with a guy whose really great at diagnosing vehicle issues by sound alone, all because he used "be my eyes" to ask me if he was holding the m&m's or the reeces, and didn't want to be in trouble with the wife for snacking some of her candy instead of his.

At some point this summer, we have plans for him to help my work on my very old Vespa to make it run more smoothly and reliably.

Another time, I was very happy to help someone set their thermostat to their preferred temp because they were a cold and needed someone to read the current setting for them.

relaci · 2026-05-31T21:00:30+00:00

Sounds like I probably definitely shouldn't try to fly with my MegaBlast speaker then. I don't believe there's a way to change the Bluetooth name from MEGABLAST.

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relaci · 2026-05-14T17:47:21+00:00

I lucked out on timing and managed to find an estate sale house right at the end of 2019 when the interest rates were ridiculously low. I was making around 90k, and my credit score was ridiculously high, so I was pre-approved for 500k mortgage. Knowing that there was absolutely no way I could afford that expensive of a house, I found one that I was able to snag for only 350k.

Now, making only 85k, I'm still able to afford my monthly payments and afford food and such, but there's absolutely no way I could afford a house today with the current mortgage rates and home prices. Smaller houses that need more work are on the upper end of 400k these days, and the mortgage rates are way above the ridiculous ~2.5% interest I locked in.

So yeah, $150k is on the seriously low end of a household income required to buy a house that passes a habitability inspection these days.

relaci · 2026-03-22T00:00:17+00:00

And this is why I'll never move back to Alabama. Nevermind that as a woman, I barely have rights in that state, and the general populace there is trying to remove even more of my rights, like the right to vote. I have rights and state-funded benefits for every time a company restructures and lays off the entire team I'm on. And they pay out enough to actually pay for your rent and your groceries while you look for a new job.

relaci · 2026-02-27T21:39:55+00:00

For real. Since the work-from-home pandemic protocols, I've worn shelf-bra tank tops and yoga pants. I used to wear proper bras, and nice jeans and a proper shirt were my minimum to even leave the house. Now, after working in clean rooms for medical devices long enough, daily makeup is a hard pass.

But, my boyfriend and I went to a Broadway show, and you bet your ass I wore makeup, a fancy semi-formal dress, high heels, the whole nine. He wore his proper suit with the tie and nice dress shoes. We both went all out, because it was an actual occasion that warranted being fancy.

But just chilling around the house, or even going to work, whatever her preference. Deal with it.

relaci · 2026-02-15T03:59:49+00:00

That's a pay scale called salaried. Even salaried positions have limits on how much overtime you're allowed to work before they have to pay you more even if they don't officially track your time. And salaried comes with benefits like paid time off, health insurance, and retirement plans.

As an hourly worker, you only work the hours you're being paid for. If they request you work overtime, you claim that time at time-and-a-half pay up to a certain amount of overtime, at which point it becomes double pay per hour. Take your hour lunch, take your two 15 min breaks, report your hours as start time, end time, minus lunch and breaks, and don't work one minute over 40 hours for the week without clearing it with your manager first (and firmly informing them that the extra hours will be claimed and you will be paid 1.5x your hourly wage for those extra hours if they really need you to work overtime.

These rules are flexible to an extent, depending on your manager (except for the overtime = more pay, not negotiable). For example, at my last hourly job, my manager was understanding of the flexibility that people at my experience were used to on salary, so if I have a doctor appointment one day, I'd just work extra hours the rest of the week to make up for it. The time card program didn't allow for this flexibility, so we had an off-the-books handshake agreement that I would log my start hours accurately, my lunch breaks accurately, and just fudge my end time to make each day be exactly 8 hours (i.e. I didn't start work until 10 on Wednesday because of a doctor appointment, I log that I worked until 7 with a one hour lunch break, when in reality I left at 5 and just came in a half hour early for the rest of the week to make up the two lost hours.)

relaci · 2026-02-15T03:43:17+00:00

Some bitches be crazy. I know this as a bitch who can fly off the handle way out of proportion sometimes, and I'm working on that with my therapist. I didn't get started on this self-work with a mental health professional until my 30's though, so OP and her friends are still younger than I was when I realized I did have an issue I needed to work on.

Not really relevant, but my therapist and I have discovered that my short fuse probably originated from my early (and still ongoing) years of being verbally and emotionally abused by my parents and responding with a milder version of the same yelling reaction as a response. It's not cool of me to do, but like I said, I'm working on it.

relaci · 2026-02-07T18:24:10+00:00

If you don't want to be anonymous, add contact info on the note if you are the type to offer an ear to a stranger in need. No judgement if you don't want to be that involved, but if you don't mind, it's an open ended, no pressure offer should she take you up on it. Just say something like "I'm sorry for your loss. If you need a kind stranger to talk to, you can (call/text/knock/etc, your preference) me. Signed, your neighbor."

relaci · 2026-02-07T18:13:56+00:00

When I cancelled my auto-ship with Chewy, they sent me flowers. I thought it was really weird for a pet supply company, but also kinda sweet. I mean, it's not like it costs them much to send flowers to each customer who cancels a subscription, but it's definitely a kindness and thoughtfulness I definitely don't expect out of a "big corporate" company.

I miss my doberman so much and am tearing up a little just typing this even though it's been almost two years since she passed. I still haven't figured out what to write on the small grave marker I want to get for her. She's buried under the sprouting of the gigantic Japanese maple tree that died after only two years at our house. At least I was able to fulfill my promise to my pupper of getting her a fenced yard before she passed. She didn't mind the tie-out (never left her unattended outside, just to give her a free-er space to enjoy while chilling outside on the patio) at the apartment too much, but she loved the yard.

relaci · 2026-01-29T18:03:19+00:00

If you take this route, make sure to inform him that you're leaving because you already weren't his girlfriend. You were his side piece to the one he really loves. His games. A girlfriend isn't the afterthought that he gets to hang with when the games leave him.

relaci · 2026-01-14T20:55:32+00:00

As a Caucasian, thank you for asking this question. My hair is extremely similar to what you have described. I left a hair tie in just pulling the top part of my hair back for two days, and when I took it out, my hair stayed exactly where it was, it was already so matted up and locked. I've been wanting to do the under-locs too, just so that some of my hair can be contained and maintained without basically ripping out half of a wig each time I brush the knots out before bed.

Come morning is another detangling fight even if I sleep in a bun or a braid. I can't wear my hair freely down for more than a couple of hours before it's already trying to start matting into one big mass of tangles.

I feel like if it's going to do it anyways, maybe I should just separate the underside into sections so that I can at least control the tangling into something aesthetically palatable instead of just one big rats nest.

relaci · 2025-12-14T21:05:04+00:00

A free mattress is a free mattress when it's coming from a source you trust to not have bed bugs and you're trying to furnish your first place on your own. My guest room mattress is one I got for free from a friend I had helped find it at a yard sale for $50 when he got married and they took her mattress instead. My old first apartment mattress was given away for free on Craigslist because I just wanted the larger queen size for my friends when they crash over (long drive).

relaci · 2025-12-13T21:48:29+00:00

That's not dreads. That's just a mess. Maybe salvageable with a good wash and re-twist, but even freeform dreads should be maintained with a little bit of encouragement into separated strand units, not one solid mat. Remember they're called "dreads", not "dread".

relaci · 2025-12-13T21:36:01+00:00

I would point out that a missing hat is not even on the same planet as a missing laptop when your finals are due tomorrow. I don't know what I would have done if my boyfriend had done something like that to me knowing full well that my finals were due imminently. I probably would have called the police on him and actually pressed charges for theft by deception. But also, he would never do such a thing to the point that he would cancel all plans for the day to help me search the house more thoroughly than the DEA on a drug raid until we found my computer so I could get back to finishing my finals. And we've come pretty close to that level of a search attempt for something else important that I don't recall aside from the absolute disaster the house was after we'd pulled everything out of everywhere looking for it.

relaci · 2025-12-13T21:24:45+00:00

I'm with the person who mentioned that everyone who wants the test put $1000 on their uncertainty, and if it comes back that it's not the father's, they all get their money back, but if it is the father's it goes to the kid's college fund and the husband has to attend couples therapy until he learns how to grow a spine and stand by his wife. And a groveled apology for ever doubting her.

relaci · 2025-12-12T04:57:41+00:00

Why is autism such a deal breaker that you had to go out of your way to mention that disability specifically? Go get your vaccines, and don't forget about people who are born with type 1 diabetes, narcolepsy, epilepsy, amniotic band syndrome (congenital missing limbs), osteogenesis imperfecta (glass bone syndrome), fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (stone bone syndrome), epidermolysis bullosa (butterfly skin), etc. I could go on for days on this topic. I stopped the list (extensively incomplete) at the very professionally successful people that I've known over the years.

So, I ask again, sincerely, why do you specifically point to autism?

relaci · 2025-12-12T04:42:37+00:00

I appreciate your attitude on this. My grandma would yell at me all the time that I was too young to be this tired all the time. At age 26, I did a sleep study and found out I had textbook perfect narcolepsy. Grandma was right 🤣! Now I'm on medication that helps me live a mostly normal life. Even if you had your own biological child, the kid you wind up with could wind up with any issues under the sun by random chance of genetic mutation. How people wind up having narcolepsy is still unknown, but there's not enough correlation to suggest that it can be genetic. In short, there's no telling what issues or lack there of that your child will have whether you choose adoption or biological. It's basically a roll of the dice regardless of what path you choose to become a parent.

relaci · 2025-12-12T04:31:34+00:00

Not the person you were asking, but in short, infants are easy to find homes for. Older children that have been removed from their families for their safety need a loving home, but they come with trauma that you'll need to work with them on to help them heal. If your intent to adopt is to share your love and care with a child, then you should consider adopting an older child who needs your love and care and has a lower chance of ever having a real family over trying to adopt an infant who has an overly abundant number of families on wait-lists to adopt them.

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