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by wincy 3y ago
To add to this — Ancient Apocalypse is a very popular Netflix series that was released in 2022 that goes into detail about this as well. Wikipedia is extremely derisive about the documentary because archaeologists think Graham Hancock is a
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by wincy 3y ago
Too bad every product that’s actually useful gets deprecated. Lockwise was great and it got deprecated.
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by wincy 3y ago
Yes, we’re being paid but also underbid to get the contract, and using more chemical than strictly necessary will cut into the profit for the job. So we mixed the chemicals the same, but wouldn’t spray growth regulator in every apartment (m
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by wincy 3y ago
Mosquitoes I’d normally focus on doing a full yard treatment of a granular, we’d use bifenthrin back in my day, no idea what they’re using now (but bifenthrin is still on sale), you can use a spreader from Home Depot and it just takes a lig
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by wincy 3y ago
Indeed, chemicals are scary, we trashed our entire pantry. It’s just not worth the risk. When you spray the focus for roaches is generally on cracks and crevices though, places roaches like to hang out and places humans shouldn’t be very of
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by wincy 3y ago
I don’t disagree with you, but I wasn’t going to exclude it from the discussion. I’m not trying to convince people to use IGRs or other potentially dangerous chemicals. We all have our risk tolerances and while I don’t think it’s related, i
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by wincy 3y ago
Haha it’s a new one being accused of being a shill! It’s so obvious, I’m in the pocket of Big chem, Big Open Source AI, and Big Tabletop! Stable Diffusion and Zöecon (makers of Gentrol) are gonna send those checks any day now…
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by wincy 3y ago
I mean from a cursory glance, yeah Googling it doesn’t look great. Baking soda, diatomaceous earth, boric acid, and bay leaves come up as the top results. I didn’t even consider any of those having worked for a few years in my early 20s as
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by wincy 3y ago
I don’t think it’s an issue of pesticides being “too weak for consumers”. You can buy all the same stuff as an exterminator[0] (use PPE and follow the labeling, don’t break laws, etc), but when you spray you’ll notice a huge knockdown, hund
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by wincy 3y ago
Interesting, that makes sense. I lived in an apartment with 8 units back in my exterminator days, and my landlord was more than happy to let me in to all 8 of them to do a thorough spray. It was much harder to spray apartment complexes with
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by wincy 3y ago
It’s a good question. I treated my own apartment building for roaches many years ago, five years later had a completely healthy kid, she’s 8 now. For the sake of full disclosure, my second kid has a pretty major birth defect (spina bifida)
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by wincy 3y ago
I took a single DB class in college and it has put me head and shoulders above my average SWE peers for the last ten years or so. Having a basic concept of what normalization is and how to apply it, and what level of normalization is practi
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by wincy 3y ago
We have effective pest control for roaches, probably developed around the same time. Using growth regulators like Gentrol make it so the cockroaches can’t breed effectively, so after a generation or two they go extinct. Somehow roaches got
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by wincy 3y ago
Just another reminder that the actual minimum wage is, in fact, always $0.
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by wincy 3y ago
I’ve stopped playing multiplayer games with strangers. I play tabletop RPGs (online, on a virtual tabletop) on Tuesday nights for 3-4 hours with some friends, and it’s an absolute blast. Even though the stories we tell are goofy and not wor
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by wincy 3y ago
Procurement of resources has gotten ridiculous, I can’t even rent an A100 to make funny pictures with Stable Diffusion on Google Colab anymore. Supposedly it’s $1.30 an hour to utilize one, but my $50 worth of credits expired because the A1
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by wincy 3y ago
I recently played The Zone[0], which is loosely based on Roadside Picnic/Stalker, and it’s the first time I found myself welling up with emotion in an RPG. I’ve played D&D since I was a teenager, but this game similarly has no dice
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by wincy 3y ago
One of the Dungeons and Dragons artists got in trouble for creating an amazing drawing of a giant then using Stable Diffusion to make it really pop. A different Ilya than the one we all know and love got in a bit of hot water [0]. [0] http
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by wincy 3y ago
No reporters are allowed inside my house or on my property either. Does that make it top secret?
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by wincy 3y ago
But doesn’t that just beg the question? Why upper case and not lower case?
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by wincy 3y ago
I think Apple Watch with cell service is an excellent compromise. Gives my kid freedom to go around the neighborhood and visit her friends without having access to apps and all that smartphones bring.
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by wincy 3y ago
I’m curious, how so? I don’t participate in either aside from maybe a few scratchers a year (like literally, 3, maybe) but at a surface level them seem to be very similar.
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by wincy 3y ago
My uncle used to say “they had vote after vote after vote to legalize casinos in our state. It kept failing and they kept bringing up new votes. And wouldn’t you know once it was legalized we never had to vote on it again.” Legislation is w
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by wincy 3y ago
I segregated myself from crime. I segregated my family to keep them safe. I don’t care if someone is poor, I care that at 2am my neighbor is beating his girlfriend and she’s screaming and I have to go out there to stop it. I care that the n
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by wincy 3y ago
That’s silly. The center of the surface of the balloon is obviously the little part where you tie it off. I’m glad I could solve this universe paradox for you and all physicists in just a few seconds. Maybe I’ll get a Nobel Prize.
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by wincy 3y ago
Maybe we’ll need to have a real life Butlerian Jihad.
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by wincy 3y ago
Haha yes I remember being very confused as a kid that The Addams Family for the NES was a sophisticated game and the SNES game felt like an arcade game. They were developed by totally different teams and were different games that sort of rh
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by wincy 3y ago
I really loved my Sega CD though. Shining Force CD and Corpse Killer (a FMV shooter) seemed revolutionary at the time. I also had some turn based Dracula adventure game where you chose how to spend your time that was terrifying to me so I o
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by wincy 3y ago
Ah yeah that happened to me at my first professional job (i.e more than ten devs at the whole company) I needed my 802.11x keys transferred to a new laptop. So rather than ask, I just, you know, downloaded metasploit to rip the private aut
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by wincy 3y ago
I think this is a definitional thing. If it’s made of salt water, that’s called sea ice which is formed when water just freezes on the surface of the ocean. An iceberg on the other hand is a broken off piece of glacier, which is ultimately

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