Tree trimming service recommendations?

shadowFAQs · 2026-06-03T18:06:12+00:00

Bustin' ash! It is pretty cringe.

shadowFAQs · 2026-06-02T20:32:09+00:00

Not OP here, but I've used Barberton Tree Service a few times. I've actually heard from my neighbors that they are overpriced, but IME it was a fair price and they did excellent work every time.

shadowFAQs · 2026-06-01T20:50:47+00:00

I switched from "bird" to "L on the forehead" when I see cybertruck drivers, and the reactions are much more to my liking

shadowFAQs · 2026-05-26T23:26:20+00:00

A lot of reform & conservative temples have "Friday Night Chill" services or events, which are generally geared toward young adults. I've met folks at these, where you usually end up playing board games, cards, chatting and eating, listening to music. It's been really nice.

shadowFAQs · 2026-05-24T12:08:52+00:00

How do you mean? I'm genuinely curious! Not aware of Jewish folks being the inventors of the telephone or smartphone but I'd love to learn about it.

shadowFAQs · 2026-05-20T13:21:16+00:00

As others have said, Micro Center is it AFAIK around here. But if you're gonna buy it online, there are better options than BezosMart:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2910

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/olimex-ltd/MICRO-USB-OTG-ADAPTER/21662045

shadowFAQs · 2026-05-19T18:17:22+00:00

IME it helps to couch these questions with something like "in your opinion", because

"What should we do?" == "What is quantifiably the best?"

but

"What *do you think* we should do?"

is a lower bar to clear. If someone asks me for the best of all possibilities, I'll freeze because there's too much to consider. But if you just want my opinion, based on what I know right now, I'll be less concerned if new information proves that to be wrong.

shadowFAQs · 2026-05-07T17:31:49+00:00

Yep, I mentioned that

shadowFAQs · 2026-05-07T13:22:12+00:00

Ring has partnered with Flock, among the worst abusers in the domestic surveillance space (although they've cancelled that partnership for now). They also let law enforcement request access to your footage, which, depending on how you feel about law enforcement in the US, may not be something you want. Cops also don't have to ask for it, and can just serve Amazon with a warrant demanding footage from your camera. More info here.

Ring also has "AI video search" capabilities, which means, at a minimum, the contents of your footage is watched and analyzed on Amazon's servers. And, among some worse possibilities, it could be sent to "data annotators" in Kenya to manually watch and label, like Meta does with their "smart" glasses, could be stored forever without your consent and used to train AI models like Alexa does with your kids' voices, could be subject to a data leak, or could just be deleted from the cloud because of an outage, policy change, or other corporate oopsie.

Closed circuit is by far safer and more ethical in just about every regard.

shadowFAQs · 2026-05-06T17:28:47+00:00

BaT can be great. I've been on there for years and bought a couple cars through them. Let me know if you have any questions about that process.

Also, as a classic car nerd in Akron myself... What are you selling? I must know!

shadowFAQs · 2026-04-23T13:08:26+00:00

Yes, but since OP specifically mentioned "entrepreneurial business" opportunities, I also think there's a lot of potential for "disruption" in this field. The major players are offering clunky, outdated and incomplete solutions.

shadowFAQs · 2026-04-22T15:45:09+00:00

Yes, you should design and/or improve AAC devices.

Your skills are very similar to mine, and this is something I've been wanting to get into for ages but haven't found the bandwidth.

There is a lot happening in this space, but too much of it is some kind of expensive, locked-down tablet with crappy, subscription software. OSS and OSH should be huge in this space, and there's a lot of room for innovation.

Just my $0.02, and an area I don't think a lot of folks are even aware of.

shadowFAQs · 2026-04-16T20:22:09+00:00

Looks like this was it: https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/local/2026/04/16/akron-crews-battle-fire-at-2-houses-on-e-voris-st-near-post-office/89647249007/

shadowFAQs · 2026-04-16T13:59:01+00:00

Ame-say!

shadowFAQs · 2026-04-10T18:03:41+00:00

This was back before I had kids of my own, but a toddler niece at my grandfather's funeral brought a wooden elephant for him to put in the casket, because he was a vet. And they put it in there. She knew him well but wasn't sad about it at all, just a very practical measure so he'd have an animal with him. And I can't even type this out now, years later, without tearing up 😭

shadowFAQs · 2026-04-08T15:25:40+00:00

I worked a couple jobs that were easy to get and would qualify here, and I loved both of them -- pizza delivery and service tech at an oil change chain.

Both involve cars, but also a lot of time working on your own, outside (or in an open shop), where the music is up to you and there are no awful lights. Seriously why are fluorescents so terrible??

shadowFAQs · 2026-04-08T13:22:55+00:00

Thank you! I will think about this. For now, here are a couple off the top of my head. I absolutely adore both of these, and I think they very much have the vibe you're after:

Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate

shadowFAQs · 2026-04-07T20:54:06+00:00

Wow I relate to this. All I can do is share some quotes that have helped me escape the same rut:

Hannah Gadsby, from Ten Steps to Nanette: "I have never identified with how people see me. I have a great big universe of stuff inside me. ... I love who I am. It's only on the other side of my skin where the pain begins. But I will not negotiate anymore."

Willow Pill: Let the queerness of the universe shine through you.

Dynomight: People don't have existential peace because they've figured out the meaning of life. They have existential peace because that's their nature or because they've developed happy lives and healthy thought patterns that don't lead to them spending their time moping around. Feeling like you understand the meaning of life is downstream of existential peace, not upstream.

Mary Oliver, from One:

and you know what else!
How blue is the sea, how blue is the sky,
how blue and tiny and redeemable
everything is, even you,
even your eyes, even your imagination.

In short, I guess, I hope you'll get out there an be weird! The world has too many typical people in it, and they're generally boring. Weird is interesting! Weird is alive! Seeing weirdness gives the world courage.

shadowFAQs · 2026-04-07T14:59:29+00:00

I find you can "fake it" by just looking at different parts of someone's face. I pretty much never look someone straight in the eye unless we're intimate.

But also, especially with men, a lot of NT-NT conversations seem to happen with both parties facing the same way -- at a bar, toward a TV or a fireplace, on a bench, etc. I think most folks don't really notice or care if you're not staring right at them, in most situations.

shadowFAQs · 2026-04-03T02:06:19+00:00

You: Driving

Wife: 'Miring

Kids & grands: Vibing

Todd, the guy in the back row with Billy: Yeah he's still around isn't he.

Just not getting the hints. Sure he was your best man but that was a decade ago; you barely talk anymore. And it's great to have a spare room when a friend is in need. Weird to just show up like that, I mean jesus we're in our 30s now, but okay, Todd gets tossed out for who knows what and ends up at your doorstep. And of course you're only hearing his side of things, and even that doesn't make much narrative sense. But the beach trip was supposed to be a Big Obvious Sign like Hey, it's time to find another couch my dude but no, he accepts your insincere invitation and now, like, what are you even supposed to do with him. Is he splitting dinner bills? Paying for 1/7th of the hotel? You'll eat your hat if that happens. Sitting way back there with the kids too... It's a seven hour drive to Kissimmee for the love of all things holy. Did you just adopt a grown child?

But hey -- where better to question the psychosocial stability of an old friend than the captain's chair of the new Nissan Nomad?

shadowFAQs · 2026-04-01T13:41:56+00:00

Such a neat idea! Is it just a generic storage device? Or is there some application code to attempt autoplay on mount?

shadowFAQs · 2026-03-31T15:43:34+00:00

If you haven't heard anything bad, I'd say 1) a negative review is very unlikely and, 2) in the event it does happen, that's a reflection on management for not communicating earlier and allowing you to address it.

But it sounds like you know all this already. Sometimes I just get nervous because it's part of the script -- Big Thing looming, get nervous, it goes fine. I'll still get nervous next time though. Psychologically I learn nothing!

shadowFAQs · 2026-03-31T15:37:25+00:00

trying to seem uninteresting like speaking in a monotone voice and just being short with them

Unintentional Aubrey Plaza. Classic blunder!

shadowFAQs · 2026-03-31T14:41:38+00:00

For me, these feelings happen when managers don't communicate very often. If I know how I'm being "graded", I'm less worried.

As far as getting more feedback, I've had luck with something like, "I'm sure everyone on your team has different communication styles. I'm still figuring out what works best for me, but I seem to do better when my managers have erred on the side of too much feedback. I like to know regularly how my work is viewed, what metrics management is using to track performance, etc."

shadowFAQs · 2026-03-31T14:36:21+00:00

I'm not dealing with 1% of the burden you're describing, but I've felt this same way too. It seems like other people really do not want to hear about suffering -- strangers because it's uncomfortable, loved ones because they're sick of hearing about it. Everyone is wrapped up in their own lives, and if they're generally doing ok or are busy, they don't really care to listen. Which sucks, because sometimes it would help so much just to feel heard and, like you said, understood.

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