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Betonhaus said:
I got a request for an interview for a job which turned out the be for a known scammy MLM.
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There are some telltale signs of MLMs that you can recognize from afar:
  • They don't tell you what their business does in plain English, and use a fuckton of corporate jargon
  • They do group interviews
  • If they have tangible products, they're garbage
  • They call it an "opportunity" instead of a job
  • They'll blather about how you'll become a "business owner"
 
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Just caught a mouse in a glue trap, he was right pissed. He bit the shit out of my finger when I tried to pinch him at the back of the neck, so as I was bleeding everywhere I got him in an oven mitt and delicately cut him loose, took him down the street, and tossed him into the yard of a particularly shitty neighbor. May he live a long life. Or get snagged by an owl.
 
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The Feline Solution said:
I heard about dodging jury duty like that before, does that actually work or do you have to show them your Aryan Brotherhood tattoos to make it plausible in their eyes?
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Usually it's better to be a little more subtle. If it's a criminal case for instance saying you're prejudiced against cops and think they're all liars will be less blatant.
 
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Vash the Stampede said:
Just caught a mouse in a glue trap, he was right pissed. He bit the shit out of my finger when I tried to pinch him at the back of the neck, so as I was bleeding everywhere I got him in an oven mitt and delicately cut him loose, took him down the street, and tossed him into the yard of a particularly shitty neighbor. May he live a long life. Or get snagged by an owl.
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I'm confused, why are setting out glue traps. If you don't intend to kill the vermin?
 
Vash the Stampede said:
Truth be told, I really dislike violence.
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Glue traps basically just torture them to death. If you really want to avoid that you can get those hav-a-heart traps that just capture them so you can release them outside. After a serious mouse infestation I once had when a row house next to the one I was renting got demolished, I pretty much lost my squeamishness and laid down a couple dozen snap traps baited with peanut butter and reloaded them every morning.

The snaps were like music to my ears for the week or so it took to obliterate most of them. Finished the rest off with poison.
 
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AnOminous said:
Glue traps basically just torture them to death. If you really want to avoid that you can get those hav-a-heart traps that just capture them so you can release them outside. After a serious mouse infestation I once had when a row house next to the one I was renting got demolished, I pretty much lost my squeamishness and laid down a couple dozen snap traps baited with peanut butter and reloaded them every morning.

The snaps were like music to my ears for the week or so it took to obliterate most of them. Finished the rest off with poison.
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I got hurt more than he did. It was a serious problem though, little guy was particularly smart and wouldn't fall into the bucket trap baited with peanutbutter, and also gnawed a bunch of splinters of wood off the bottom of a door that has to be fixed with putty and repainted now. I totally understand the point about glue traps, but it's particularly stretchy glue that cuts very easily. I wouldn't use those traps outside or if I couldn't check them frequently.
 
Absolute clusterfuck of a next few weeks coming up. Big kid starting school including a few orientation/meet the teacher dates, a few medical check-ups for all of us, an intense extracurricular activity schedule , and we're thinking about moving in the next year or two because we have really outgrown this house and because there's a large apartment complex breaking ground nearby and I know exactly who is going to be living there, so we've been visiting model homes and communities just to get a better idea of what's available and how much it costs, whilst still looking at land in case we get lucky on acreage. (doubtful) My husband's job picked back up and he only gets to see the kids like 2-3 hours a workday, and only has 6 days off a month so it sucks even though we appreciate the job security. idk how single parents or even families with two working parents make it work, truly. There aren't enough hours in a day.

I tend to really thrive on a busy schedule but I've had several pregnancies very closely clustered over the past few years and despite losing all the baby weight and being physically active and at a healthy BMI, my back and hips are just fucked forever, so I'm not looking forward to the whole ''is this what being in my 30s is like and is this as good as it gets for the rest of my life, or is my cartilage all worn away'' feeling.
 
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thog said:
I researched some stuff related to outer space again, and every time I do it I have a small existential crisis, so that's fun.
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Protip: don't do that.

Realistically aliens do exist, but they're either hiding their presence from us or we are unable to see or recognize their presence. Most likely the latter


Fermis Paradox does not account for the speed of light. The nearest star we see is 20 lightyears away and so were looking into its past. Go far enough away and you're looking thousands of years into a star's past. We do not possess the ability to make ourselves heard from any significant distance,and even that relies that the recipient has it's attention focused in our direction. If you're assuming that aliens actively trying to make themselves heard, that may only happen for a period of time until they move on to more interesting stuff, or they may use or switch to communication technologies we currently do not possess or can detect.
 
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