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  • I’m not saying all stories about inviting demons/vampires into your house are inspired by bed bugs. I have 0 evidence to support that.

    BUT, if tomorrow it is said that evidence that supports that theory is found, I’ll just nod and be like “Yeah that tracks”

    Once you’ve invited bed bugs in, they own that house now. You don’t wanna live with them anymore? Don’t like them sucking your blood? You move.

    Also all your stuff belongs to them now. You invited them in, it’s your fault.



  • Super glad she had the support system to prevent that! People can end up homeless from one little mistake.

    I usually try not to say “youtubers are making the world better”, but the youtubers who are all about educating about scams and talking about how common they are and how anyone can fall for them I think does help. Everyone would like to imagine “I am too smart to fall for a scam, I’ll know right away!”

    But that’s how they get ya!




  • Bahaha that is pretty awesome.

    I’ve “debated” doing that, since I’m debt free aside from mortgage and have a good credit score, so I could probably open enough cards to get the cycle moving. But the research to find the best hidden gems of reward programs is probably hard.

    Other thing I’ve seen people with great credit scores do is basically put EVERYTHING on 0% intro credit cards, pay minimums, save all the money in a HYSA or a mutual fund, then pay off the balance right before the 0% ends, and then open a new 0% card and repeat. Which seems finicky, but basically gives yourself a 4-8% raise if you set it up to just take care of itself automatically.


  • Scalpers = bad

    Fixing expensive things and selling them cheaper than new = based

    They get money, buyer gets a cheaper appliance, OG person got what they thought was junk hauled away. 10/10 business.

    Saving perfectly good things from the dump = based

    Seriously, just post on marketplace “Free thing sitting out on corner of XYZ, no holds, I’ll let you know if it’s there or not” So much really good stuff ends up at the dump out of laziness.

    I just do love side hustles that actually make a positive impact on their community, and I think all those do for sure do.


  • That’s actually super cool business and one I’ve wondered if it would work, but never seen done!

    I do also know there are folks around me that sell glassware made from cutting wine bottles/jars/containers, and I think that’s super cool. Also some folks who turn trash forks/spoons into rings. So I imagine they probably just let their communities know “Hey if you have a lot let me know and I’ll come get them, or put them out in a box for me on x day and I’ll catch em”

    People who make money off of recycling is just super cool to me.


  • That’s awesome to hear!

    I had to hire a junk hauler after I had to kick the guy living in my basement out because he decided he didn’t need to pay for 6 months (It was a full basement apartment with own bathroom/master bedroom/kitchen and I charged $600 flat) , and I realized that instead of taking ANY trash out for the last year, he simply stuffed all the trash into one of the rooms and it looked like a landfill. Including bags of used cat litter. He also broke basically every appliance including the washer and dryer and never told me (I was able to fix those pretty easily luckily), and left a broken down truck in the driveway. He of course also left a bunch of like really gross/broken furniture.

    Then blocked me and my gf on all phones/social media… oops this is accidentally a rant of how me trying to help a guy with a negative credit score backfired terribly. I guess sometimes credit score is accurate and not BS.

    Anyway, I was gonna have a mental break down realizing that my basement was a literal landfill, with like 20 weeks worth of garbage I would need to some how get out of my house and a bunch of junk that wouldn’t fit in a car. But then $400 dollars later the brave junk haulers made my problems go away (they had to call a second truck). They worked so fast, were super nice and open about price/time and what items they were going to try to sell. It’s an incredibly helpful business and I’m glad he found success by working for just normal people in a rough spot. I do in fact hope I never have to hire any of them again though.

    Also, yes, the house had lots of bugs. Whenever I asked him if he had any idea where they were coming from or if he had any issues he assured me that, no, he didn’t. Luckily once all the trash was out of the basement, tons of normal traps, bug bombs, and a few weeks of only having packaged food made all the bugs go away. If I had to have it fumigated I probably would have had another break down.



  • Adding to google maps = easy and helpful

    Making different social media pages with menu/pictures then giving it to the owner = fine

    Anything beyond that?

    I ain’t dealing with that. Getting people to actually click on things is a dark and maddening experience. I’ve tried to GIVE AWAY things to promote events, and I can’t get folks to click on stupid links.

    Also many social media commenters prove that you don’t have to have a brain to learn to write, so Jellyfish should be writing fb comments on your local vegan restaurant complaining about lack of fish options any day now.



  • I’m doing online college atm, and there is a forum post assignment each week.

    I dread having to respond to my other “class mates” because half of them are clearly using AI. Like having to read a single sentence of AI slop makes me lose the will to live. Spending my mental energy to read something no one was willing to put in the energy to write is not what I wanna spend my days doing.

    The school, like all universities, are working on new policies. But it’s just so painful to prove someone is using AI beyond a reasonable doubt. Sometimes folks accidentally include something where the answer basically includes something like “as an AI” , and those generally get removed quickly and I don’t see that student post ever again. Or someone posted code where in it there was a comment that said “Then you can repeat this process to write the rest of the program”

    So yeah, if you made a game out of catching AI slop, more power to you. You are a stronger, or more deranged, internet user than me.



  • Honestly just convincing old folks that “Hey whenever something stressful happens on your computer, please for the love of god just call me.”

    Is worth its weight in gold to prevent scams. A big thing scammer prey on is shame, blaming the individual. If there is someone they have paid to help them and trust to help them with any issue without judgement, I would hope they would lean on that person when scared by a scammer. So as long as it’s for the right reasons I can see how cool that could be!

    I do like the computer literacy classes that get ran for older folks, and the ones about avoiding scams. So I can see how this can be good!



  • Oh man I loved when Evermore (RIP) had fire dancers. But it was funny because for their major events they would hire super skilled pros, then their daily shows they would have a staff member that they had taught or was a hobbyist before being hired. They were fun and skilled, but the difference was very obvious in variety of tricks and number of failed tricks.

    Which makes sense considering their financial troubles, but imagine being that fire dancer on staff being like “Super hyped for tonight’s show!” and them just being like “Ahh, did no one tell you? We hired someone for five times your nightly wage to do tonight’s show cause they’re a lot better”