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[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Curious! Is your main market other fire dancers, joke gifts, or weird sex thing?

Or do you just not ask questions and happily take your little bit of cash?

Cause 3k a year ain't nothing to sneeze at. $200ish a month if you are only clearing your bills by $50 can make a WORLD of difference.

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Huh, I never considered that one. But I guess if a neighbor advertised "10$ to bring over your knives and I'll make them like new" I probably would at least try it since I have some pretty nice knives that I've been struggling with that are really old.

I am sad to report I have tried to sharpen my own knives... using a thing I bought off amazon. It dud not work out.

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

With any upholstered furniture we've bought (Since we've bought some for personal use), we keep it in the garage and treat it for like a week before it comes inside. We don't do it often and have yet to have a problem, but anytime we buy something soft we are very concerned we are inviting demons into the house.

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It fully depends on if you're doing it at your house, or the house of the child you are watching, and the state.

But the rules don't matter as long as no one is a narc!

“For instance, most states and territories do not require an in-home child care provider to be licensed if they provide care on an occasional basis, provide care in your home, or are related to the children in their care.”

Which my thing "might" break.

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

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"

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

https://childcare.gov/consumer-education/informal-in-home-child-care#%3A%7E%3Atext=Your+state+or+territory+may%2Cto+ensure+the+children%27s+safety.

"For instance, most states and territories do not require an in-home child care provider to be licensed if they provide care on an occasional basis, provide care in your home, or are related to the children in their care."

That is why I gave the "it depends"

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So a baby sitter baby sitting and the home of the child is completely legally fine. If you are doing it at your own home, or watching unrelated children, it can be iffy.

https://childcare.gov/consumer-education/informal-in-home-child-care#%3A%7E%3Atext=Your+state+or+territory+may%2Cto+ensure+the+children%27s+safety.

That's why I said it depends on state/situation.

 

So imagine this:

you owe X amount of money, and fleeing the country makes it vanish

Or you accidentally are given X amount of money, and fleeing the country is only way to keep it

Inspired by: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/25/they-fled-the-country-to-escape-their-student-debt.html (Who left over 20k. Would not bounce.)

https://www.the-sun.com/news/5684480/worker-accidentally-paid-300-times-salary-vanishes/#:~:text=Instead%2C%20the%20lucky%20man%2C%20who,seen%20or%20heard%20from%20since. (I would bounce)

 

I want to work on complimenting other men more! Specifically my goal is to compliment people on things they clearly worked hard on or put in effort, cause it sucks if you work super hard or care about something and then don't feel like anyone notices.

So I'm going to try and compliment people who:

Have really well done and unique tattoos

Are older but super athletic (It's harder and more thankless, since when you're young and athletic you're usually in sports and get lots of praise. At least that was my experience)

Have super sharp outfits

Have really nice shoes (nice shoes are expensive and keeping them clean is legit hard)

what are other good compliments we should give each other?

EDIT: Oh and I still remember when I got a compliment on what I was getting while grocery shopping. So if I see like real good food in there I'll try to throw out a "looks like you're cooking up some good stuff"

 

Hi everyone!

Few months ago I asked about finding a good cheap escooter: https://lemmy.world/post/15970361

After watching this review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsC8Fd7Hb1w&t=472s

I ended up buying this scooter!

https://gotrax.com/products/seated-electric-scooter

On Thursday did my longest trip with it and did nearly 13 miles, and it still had over 25% left. I weigh 140 pounds so me being light might be why it had such a good range.

Otherwise I use it a ton to go grocery shopping every couple days, get to dr appointments, and the like. It's wonderful for little me who works from home and is within 4 miles of most things I need.

Also I have a room mate who doesn't have a car for financial reasons, and they've fallen in love with it as well for running errands under 2 miles so they've mentioned they might get one once they get a bit more money so they don't have to borrow mine. Only complaint is I might try to make the basket bigger, as it's a tad small!

But yeah just wanted to throw out my experience for anyone else looking for a cheap escooter!

 

So my mom has been saying for awhile how she wished she could play Hogwarts legacy, and my older sister just replaced her gaming PC. So my sister sent her old pc to my mom. Nothing crazy, but meets minimum system requirements! My mom is now kind of speed running learning about gaming and it's been amusing. I just think these are adorable.

  1. She complained that she couldn't find the game for sale for PC anywhere, she could only find it for XBOX and PS. She was looking on amazon, and I had to point her towards steam, and help her setup an account for steam.

  2. She happened to purchase it while it was on sale and she was super confused why it was randomly on sale! Had to explain how steam works. She's disabled and the $60 was the extent of her fun money for the month, so getting it on sale was a huge deal to her.

  3. Complaining at how long it took to download the game off wifi when she was ready to play RIGHT NOW. She kept asking if we could use an Ethernet cable to make it go faster, but her PC was like 40 feet from the nearest jack and we didn't have a long enough ethernet cable (No I wasn't driving home to my house to look for one, and no I wasn't buying her one. Love you momma! You gotta wait!)

  4. She realized she hates mouse and keyboard, so used the money she saved from the sale to buy a little controller from walmart.

  5. She talked about how much she likes that because she's on "story mode" she can skip puzzles/challenges she thinks are stupid. Considering there are games I never beat as a kid because of a specific mini game/challenge I couldn't beat, I resonated with that. Back when we were kids if there was a quick time event you couldn't beat, we quit the game!

  6. A few weeks later she talked about how she was super happy to finally find a youtuber that would give walk through/tips/advice on how to do things in a not annoying way. The one she likes are basically "Here is a 30 second clip of doing this specific thing in this room". She is not a fan of 30 minute lets plays with intros/outros.

  7. Complaining about long load times between rooms, and quests that make her go through multiple loading zones. No comment, she's just right to complain.

All her revelations were super relatable and I just thought it was cute that at an older age she went through modern gaming transition in a few weeks, and hit on emotions we all basically hit.

 

She's super creative with instant mashed potato's and using them makes:

Potato patties

Black bean burgers

Shepard's pie

I actually made some black bean burgers using the recipe and they came out great!

 

TLDR: Looking for a 3+ wheeled vehicle that can be locked up like a bike and maybe taken on a bus.

So my sister has health issues that means she can't drive/get a license, and that she'd most likely fall over on a scooter. She mostly walks/busses around, but the bus system is closed on sundays and makes life difficult.

So yeah, wondering if there is anything that would be allowed on sidewalks/bike lanes with 3+ wheels and a bit more speed than walking so she can increase her range that she can get to, but like be able to be chained to a bike rack.

IDK bit of a stretch, but maybe you all know something!

 

BIOS version: 6332

Motherboard:

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/6FvZxr/asus-prime-a320m-k-micro-atx-am4-motherboard-prime-a320m-k

CPU:

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/Qk2bt6/amd-ryzen-9-5950x-34-ghz-16-core-processor-100-100000059wof

According to part picker the cpu should work with version 5862

So it seats nicely and machine powers on, but then the lights on my mouse/keyboard flash on, then off. Then after about a minute the PC turns off.

According to part picker my power supply can handle what I have attached with the new CPU, but I don't really know how to test that.

Already took out the cmos battery and reset.

Putting in my old cpu works just fine, so I didn't brick anything.

Any ideas?

 

I make gravy for potatoes/rice using bouillon cubes, but IDK what to put over my biscuits!

Any suggestions? (preferably on cheaper side so can eat it on the regular)

 

According to research ending every call with "Have I resolved all your issues?" Reduces how often people call back.

But yeah if you want to upgrade your product, it takes 5 inbound calls because of the steps. All but the last one could be automated.

I got yeeted.

 

That's all.

Today there was construction on the road and a ton of cars were stuck.

Then whenever there is an event at a nearby park I zoom on by them as all the cars get stuck.

Just realized how overly pleased I was when the person stopped all the cars, and I just was like... oh look, nothing is being done in my lane.

EDIT: Oh and I can get to my closet grocery store faster than a car by cutting through a parking lot cars can't get into simply because doing so avoids having to do a left turn onto a super busy road. Joyful, every time. More traffic at that light, the better I feel.

Glad to hear others are as petty as me!

 

Recently got Walk Scape which is a rune scape inspired game, but you do things by walking and just reads from the google analytics on your walking distance, so no gps and doesn't care where you go, just that you walk. So like to mine something, you take 10 steps, and so on. Also really nice that if you complete your current task, your steps are stored. So you don't have to do things while on the walk, you pick stuff to do before you walk, and then check in after. Really enjoying it!

Also got an app called Macadam, which gives you prizes for walking. But the model is kinda annoying because you'll get 25 coins for walking 2,500 steps in a day, but then you'd get like 5k for doing surveys and 10k for "playing partner games". So it feels a bit just like a mist play clone with a pedometer.

I didn't like games like pokemon go because the best way to play was always just to drive to a good place and hang out there. Also it required you to stop while on your walk.

Curious if there are any other fun walking games!

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