Roach motels when the situation becomes unmanageable.

From what you’re describing, the roaches are probably laying eggs and living inside rotted wood or old furniture.

I’m not a fan of fumigation since it is expensive, rarely works anywhere near 100%, and uses toxic chemicals, so it makes your house dirty and then the roaches are back in a couple weeks.

Buy a large pack of these glue traps with packaged bait, bait the traps as you need them, and put one trap in the area of each room you see the most roaches, somewhere dark, under furniture or out of sight.

You don’t need more than one trap per room, roaches are plenty mobile. Check them daily in the beginning, replace them when they are one layer full of roaches trapped in the adhesive.

You will have a whole bunch of live roaches you can feed to your chameleon and you will notice the roach infestation going down rather drastically. They catch young and old roaches with equal effect.

Very simple traps, and I’ve always found them to work very well.

I recommend buying the highest rated variety of baited glue traps with the highest amount of people who have bought it before.

I did these in China.

4 first, poor had nothing, moved to teach English. It was fine, I paid for things with cash, I had a debit card to use the ATMs.

And up until that point I still didn’t have any phone, so I climbed the hills behind the apartment I was renting and just walked around town learning stuff, trying for, living life.

Then I got a dumphone, which changed little except I could hang out with close friends from the school but usually we coordinated when we work together in the school anyway, so there was very little change with a dumb phone.

Then I bought a laptop and I could study Rosetta Stone and watch TV/movies.

eventually I got a smartphone and then I could start dating in the modern world. I dated in China before that through organic meetups, but I didn’t realize how far into the digital age dating head lapped until I got a smartphone and used all the apps.

It’s very feasible and I’ll say a lot less stressful to not have a phone, but it’s not as anxious-fun, and I do like looking stuff up all the time and having gigabytes of music in my pocket.

which reminds me before I had a laptop or smartphone, I bought a mini iPod in China and used one of the school computers to load it up with music.

Shoot that was a revolution for me, I loved the little clip on the back and how late it was.

How bad would it be for your social life?

I’d say that without the tech you won’t make new connections as easily on a surface level, but whenever an unteched person does get into a conversation, their side of the conversation tends to be a bit more well thought out and significant.

You’ll also put more work into the real life relationship since you don’t have a hundred virtual relationships vying for your attention on your phone.

So it would probably help your social life, by my metrics.

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and the red pandas!

they’re like fox colored raccoons, they’re super cool.

that is a very cool habitat, nicely maintained forests and pathways.

I was pretty thrown when I saw a dozen of these little orange fellas strolling around.

that sounds really fun, I want to play stratosphere or earthquake mode.

I’m going to try installing it.

it is that kind of country, this is going to rapidly change the country for the better when the barn goes into effect.

The exhaust and noise of engines is pretty rough in cities and towns there, which is common in Asia.

but for a lot of countries I visited, after they transitioned to electric mopeds, it’s so much more pleasant to walk around, shop, and live.

hahaha. when I was in New Zealand, everyone asked me what I was doing there, like they were shocked that I would even visit New Zealand, especially in the tiny town I was living in.

and I said that I just wanted to get to know New Zealand, I loved the culture and especially the humor.

and every New Zealander was like “what are you talking about? we’re not very funny.”

I explained about flight of the Conchords and eagle versus shark, and was told that those were fine, but not super funny.

New Zealand culture is so sincere and humorous, inherently.

great point, and many countries would be literally poorer as well.

even undocumented immigrants pay about $100 billion in taxes to the US each year.

vote with your feet.

I’ve been traveling for about fifteen years now, if you have any questions.

you bought it, why shouldn’t you also rent it?

only if the corporate citizen promises really hard we can trust them. like a super promise.

just started journey to Savage planet, which is a lot of fun.

the humor reminds me a lot of outer worlds and the exploration feels a lot like outer wilds, coincidentally.

I’m having a really good time playing it and will probably check out the sequel when I finish.

really good article with a couple surprises in there.

"some people speculated that, because of the political pressure against it, its release must have been an act of resistance by someone within the IRS. But the open sourcing of the program was always part of the plan, and was required by a law called the SHARE IT Act. It happened “fully above board, which is honestly more of a feat!,” Given told 404 Media. “This has been in the works since last year.”

Vinton told 404 Media in a phone call that the open sourcing of Direct File “is just good government.”

“All code paid for by taxpayer dollars should be open source, available for comment, for feedback, for people to build on and for people in other agencies to replicate. It saves everyone money and it is our [taxpayers’] IP,” she said. “This is just good government and should absolutely be the standard that government technologists are held to.”"

if you’re talking about the fermented bean curd that I’m familiar with, the flavor is insanely strong.

and despicable, haha.

describing the spiciness of fermented bean curd as superfluous sounds accurate to me.

You’re accessing a system meant to exrract value rather than provide care.

solution:

medical tourism means you choose which country has the medical procedure you’re looking for at the price point you’re looking for.

I get all of my dental work done in Thailand: same technologies, same expertise, better customer service, much lower prices, often 50% lower even at the most prominent international clinics, cheaper if you go to the local clinics instead(many still speak English)

the Thai government heavily invested in medical infrastructure, tech and education 20 years ago and it paid off for both their local economy in terms of medical tourism and for people like me and you who don’t want to pay obscene amounts of money for medical care.

you can check the fees online before you go, and if you have any major dental work to be done, it’ll be cheaper with a round trip ticket to Thailand than it will be in many other countries.

hi, I’ve been living abroad for 15 years or so.

if you want to move, you should move.

most countries have a very low cost of living compared to the US, so you can teach math or English abroad(what I usually recommend for first time travelers who want money) and easily save 1-2 thousand a month in a country like Thailand, which is very welcoming to trans people and has great, affordable medical care.

if you can get any remote programming job that pays more than $500 US a month, you can live abroad and immediately start saving any income over that 500, which covers your own apartment and food for the month.

and it is awesome out here in the world, btw.

you can live and save abroad for a couple years and if for whatever reason you want to go back to the US and buy a house, you’ll have the money to do that.

I’ve helped other people move and would be happy to go into any details you’re curious about.

I say “US Americans” to differentiate while traveling, works well.

easy to say, easy to understand.

correct.

there’s also the maybe more important scientific literature ban that is forcing scientists like those who make sure crops grow correctly in the US out of their jobs because they aren’t able to talk about the gender of the seeds they are breeding.

or the physicists who can’t talk about the “status” of the material they’re using, because that word is banned.

countries don’t want to buy American military equipment anymore because they rightly cannot trust the US, which is a huge loss of revenue.

the disastrous policies already enacted are going to economically and socially hobble the country for decades.

the scientist who goes to another country rather than the US to practice physics, agriculture, anthropology, anything, that’s an entire career of innovation and scientific benefit lost to the US.

and those scientists are already avoiding the us, that’s already happening.

the market numbers are the tip of the iceberg here.

I was literally in the middle of thinking about community groups when I came across your post, I think a lot of people would use this feature.

i find this very satisfying: gently disagreeing with them via a short single positive message like “gay people do deserve respect”, then letting them throw a very lengthy, time-invested tantrum before gently and completely disagreeing with their comment with another short sentence, over and over until they get tired.

i find that both very funny and I’m putting out positive messages that negate their bigotry without too much time or effort.

that’s just if you have the time and inclination to engage, you aren’t morally obligated to subject yourself to abusive behavior.

if it’s real bad, they’re probably violating a rule, and reporting them will get them banned