If you dig down about 2 foot (or several inches lower than the lowest root you find) and install a rubber barrier that goes from the bottom of the trench to up above the soil, it wont be able to spread to you anymore :)

You could use brick, stone, or cement, but if any cracks exist or form it’ll eventually find the way through, where that’s significantly less likely with a solid sheet of rubber.

Should add sunchokes/Jerusalem artichoke in there somewhere, as they are food. I don’t think kudzu is? Lets replace that one.

Sunchokes spread like crazy as long as they have full sun, and are super difficult to eradicate, but are thwarted by being planted in sunny clearings in densely wooded areas. They can’t spread into the shade.

Make the land difficult for development, but useful for the community!

The urge never went away for me, I vaped 0% for several years. It’s the habit that’s addictive for some people.

I have a 2023 chevy bolt and I just pulled the fuse for all that stuff. It doesn’t really disable anything important. If you still want navigation or location-based charging, you can remove the onstar module behind the screen without issue, and the video tutorial made it look pretty damned easy to DIY. That disables all the spyware/internet stuff but leaves everything else working. I’ll probably do it eventually, for location-based charging and nothing else, but its very low priority at the moment, cuz I hardly ever go anywhere that can use the full level 1 12amp pull (my friends and family aren’t confident their wiring can handle it, which is totally fair, I don’t use 12amp at home for the same reason, and I’m getting a new outlet installed that will make it a level 2 charger anyway)

It also has physical buttons for all the important stuff. That and being able to disable the spyware were my two main criteria, with cargo space as a close third (used to have a civic coupe, loved the size, but useless for moving stuff)

Honestly just having the bed be dinged and/or dirty is plenty to me.

It’s absurd the number of trucks I’ve seen where the bed liner looks brand new, never used, on a 5-10 YO vehicle. No body damage, not even a scuff on the tailgate.

Sure it IS possible to regularly use a truck as a truck and be so careful as to not cause any damage, but it’s incredibly unlikely.

The halo effect is a real problem, Disney notwithstanding.

Society needs to move on from the belief that beauty is a blessing from the gods. But its been a problem since forever.

I want to do a new job every 6 month or so. Thats long enough to get really really good at it, but not long enough to get bored or develop anxiety about doing it.

That’s technically what temp agency contracts are, but I don’t like when someone takes part of my paycheck for doing absolutely fuck-all and the jobs on offer fucking suck. But finding your own contracts is honestly a full-time job by itself. I know because I’ve done that for years.

Life is unfair, just give me a job and I’ll at least temporarily be the best employee you’ve ever had!

I bought a 4-times-daily 31-day pill case. Thats 124 compartments, plus theres an extra stick because they come in a grid, which I use for travel, for a total of 128.

I fill it whenever I get my new bottles, and sure, its kinda big, and I never use all 31 sticks because I only take meds once a day, but it does mean I only have to fill it once per refill (90 days).

Thats a level of remembering I can do. Plus if I ever have to swap to twice daily, I have plenty of spares, just working from the other end.

Only real downside is you need to re-label them, and if you take meds daily, you need to use two sticks a week, with an empty compartment.

Or if 1-month intervals are fine for you, especially if you take meds twice a day anyway, you can just use it as-is :)

Do you have a citation for that? With how shit search has become I’m struggling to find anything about it. All i get are right-to-repair articles and stuff about data access being a problem for repair shops (I assume thats in the same vein)

Wonder how that works when I haven’t consented to any data disclosures, even implicitly. I didn’t set up any of those things, because I pulled the fuse, and no consent screens ever came up. None of the paperwork signed was for it, either, best I could tell.

Mine isn’t. I got a 2023 bolt and immediately upon taking possession, pulled the fuse that runs that shit. I could go behind the screen and remove the onstar module entirely, and I probably will to restore the nav and location-based charging at some point, but not a priority. Pulling the fuse didn’t disable anything I can’t live without, since my old car didn’t even have the stuff that gets disabled.

I don’t use apps on my phone that connect to the car, and haven’t even synced my phone for calls. I have an old android I factory reset and created a local account on, which doesn’t have a sim card, just hotspot from my active phone, and I use that for the EV charge location apps, totally isolated from anything else because they, too, syphon data.

I’d personally never buy a vehicle that couldn’t have all that shit disabled. It may still collect it, but if I cant intercept or prevent transmission of it, I wouldn’t buy the vehicle.

I’m hoping that by the time I need to replace this one, we have at least started to invest in decent public transit that doesn’t take 3-10x as long as driving. It could happen. Else I’ll just never leave home because I won’t buy one.

My ex liked the 6-7 range while I like the 2-4 range. We were thus incompatible and broke up after the umpteenth time they made it “for me” the exact same way they did for themselves.

(The last bit is a joke, the first bit isn’t)

I’m sure my cameras are easily viewable by hackers.

Thats why I have one in the chicken coop and one in the yard to also check the chickens, and nowhere else.

If they want to watch awesome chicken footage, be my guest. Can’t say I’d even blame them, my ladies are awesome.

If I wanted actual security cameras, I’d self-host them.

I spend the first 15 minutes of every new year sending texts to all my family and friends in Wisconsin telling them to get registered on myvote.wi.gov for their absentee ballots for the year because we have to renew every single year and its my resolution to bug everyone about it until they send me “i voted” stickers (or excuses for why they haven’t a sticker but have voted) in the spring election which is days from my birthday.

Nobody buys me a gift, they send me pictures of stickers. Civic participation is my requested gift. Spring elections are shit for turnout.

I watched whole videos about repaving with used bricks and why we don’t do that for all low-speed roads globally is just beyond me.

Yeah, and I’ve also tried stuff like conditioner washing (co-wash), mostly when I did fun dye colors, to preserve the color. But my threshold to feel gross is honestly low enough that my hair feeling nasty is my shower habit trigger, else I simply wont do any self-care. So while it’s technically an option, it’s not one that works with my self. :D

I shower 2-3 times a week in the middle(-ish) of the day.

Showers make me sleepy so can’t do early mornings. I have very long, straight, and thick hair that takes hours to air dry, and refuse to use blow dryers, so night is right out else I end up with a really shit bed-head curl situation…

The sweet spot is mid-morning or around lunch, when I get sleepy anyway, given an hour to half-dry, then put up in a french clip bun, so when I take it down for the evening, it has a nice open curl. I never use the pretty, but it makes me feel very pretty at night.

My favorite thing these days is putting my windows laptop in airplane mode before installing anything. It goes all buggy and aggressive about “we don’t know if this is a threat!!!” Meanwhile it always flags these installers as a threat anyway, and offline whining is easier to get through.

Yes yes, I know, windows bad mmmmkay, all my other computers are linux, I keep this on windows for “but moooooom I don’t want to have to mess with a load of shit just to test this game to see if I even like it enough to go through the arduous process to install on linux” reasons

At my last job I auto-deleted everything from my manager. Anything she needed to communicate to me was done via teams anyway.

She got an absolute buttload of emails, because thats how the company worked for any but the lowest of the low. Every job you do (which can easily be dozens upon dozens) requires subscribing to a mailing list of absolute nonsense. Most people got several hundred emails a day. Management got around 1,000. Absolute braindead system. All tech roles (SaaS), and zero people who were willing to maintain proper documentation, except me but I only did it for end-users.

I was the lowest of the low and never got email that wasn’t important for me. Exactly the way I like it. Not like anyone is reading the 400+ mails a day anyway.

But what would happen is that she’d go through the daily onslaught of emails and find some relevant to her team and forward them on, not realizing we -only- got those emails, so instead of three emails in a day, we’d get 6. The original three and a set of duplicates.

No matter how many times I told her she was wasting her time and ours, she still insisted on doing it. Classic management.

His videos are why I got a heat pump water heater instead of a standard one when mine died. I figure in summer I can hook the exhaust duct up to my hvac and get a bit of free air conditioning out of it, since I don’t have AC yet. Tiny extra bonus piped straight to my bedroom.

Theres evidence that the genocide of the americas caused the little ice age, so we’ve actually had great impacts even outside of industrialization, likely largely from widespread cooking and heating fires. The more of us there are, the more impact we seem to have.