apprehensively_human @ apprehensively_human @lemmy.ca

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Insecticides have limited effect on bed bugs. What's important is catching them early before they get out of control, look out for signs like unusual bite mark patterns on your body when you wake up or small blood stains on your sheets. Check around the corners of your bed and under the mattress for the small dark blotches of fecal matter. If you see a living bug, then there are going to be more of them. It only takes a single pregnant female to begin a rampant infestation.

Wash all of your bedding in hot water and dry on high heat. Buy mattress protectors rated for bed bugs and seal up all beds in the home. Bed bugs can remain dormant for up to a year without food so the cover will need to stay on for at least that long. Anywhere you find evidence of bug activity needs to be hit with diatomaceous earth, this isn't a nasty chemical insecticide treatment but it works by getting into the small joints of the bugs and immobilizing them. Spray into all corners of the room around the floor and under baseboards. It may be necessary to disassemble the bed frame to make sure all corners can be examined.

To prevent them coming into your home, make sure whenever you are staying at a hotel that you check around the beds for any evidence of activity. All of your belongings must stay off the floor and as far away from the bed as possible. When you get home the first thing you should do is throw all of your clothing into a hot wash cycle. If you live in an apartment building it is possible they will come in through the walls from an adjacent unit so be sure to communicate with your neighbours and landlord; fighting your own infestation while the source is next door will ultimately get you nowhere.

Fighting bed bugs was easily the worst time of my life and if I can save at least one other person from going through the same thing then at least my experience counts for something.

I think people know who Ubisoft is, Kotaku.

I kept mine on my keychain for the longest time until it got me right under one of my finger nails. The amount of times I've had to use it does not justify that trauma.

I can't even think about doing anything productive without coffee or tea in my hands.

Really tame vanilla stuff over here, I'm seeing debian-12.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso

SimCity's core gameplay loop was so satisfying but you could only play for a few hours before there was nothing else to do.

I loved seeing the sewer and water overlay showing globs of liquid moving through the pipes and slowly making its way to and from all the different buildings.

The speed limit on all residential streets should be at the very most 30km/h year round. Since I started active commuting every day, I've noticed how alarmingly scary it is going 50 when I do have to drive. Reaction times at that speed do not allow for the amount of braking distance required.

DEFINITION FOR ADVERTISEMENT

noun

• a paid announcement, as of goods for sale, in newspapers or magazines, on radio or television, or on the internet.
• a public notice, especially in print.
• the action of making generally known; a calling to the attention of the public

Just because it may not be trying to get you to buy Coca-Cola doesn't mean it isn't an ad.

People living along roads that get "improvements" see their property tax go up to cover the expense, but the people who actually use the damn things don't have to spend a dime. It's a no brainer that people choose to live in tax subsidy zones where everything is shiny and new and they can just use the new highway to commute to work anyway.

Meanwhile it's an unavoidable tragedy when people inevitably get struck and killed by cars since we've taken away everything that makes being a human person with two legs worthwhile and given it to cars instead.

The moral panic slippery slope of: Pilots shouldn't be using psychedelics therefor nobody should be using psychedelics.

And in any case, the article states that he wasn't even a member of the flight crew but was sitting in the jump seat and had been operating on 40 hours without any sleep and didn't say when he actually consumed the mushrooms.

You can set up an instance that doesn't allow regular users to register. CBC would host and could create as many of its own accounts as necessary, and users from other instances could follow those accounts.

I seem to remember something similar a little while ago except it was like a pair of shoes or something.

Edit: It was Lil Nas X and his Satan Nikes.
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/lil-nas-x-mschf-satan-nike-shoes/index.html

Relevant Captain D

Piped has literally never worked for me. I would assume it had something to do with the cocktail of privacy and adblocking extensions I have running, which is precisely why I want a YouTube alternative so badly to begin with.

I signed on a 6.1% variable rate and I'm dreaming of the days when 2.5% was the norm

When I read stats like this I'm reminded of my younger days when I was financially illiterate and didn't keep a functional budget. Credit card was always carrying a balance and I was frequently dipping into my overdraft.
I am certainly more privileged now with a half decent salary, my own house, no kids and enough in the bank keep me afloat through next month without reaching for my savings, but I know for a fact that if I hadn't gotten smarter about my spending I would not be in this position.

What isn't cool, and I'm feeling it also, is how little I'm able to put away for retirement now that the cost of living is so wildly out of control. Basically all of my income is going towards bill payments and necessities, with only a small amount reserved for fun money to keep me sane and nothing left over for when I turn 65 or 80 or whatever retirement age will end up being.

The clock in my car always tends to drift over time, so every now and then when I'd take lunch I would make sure to be tuned in to the time signal on the road.

You're right. We should be removing their eyes!

She is out of control.