See now, as a US person who expects to tip housekeeping (and I tip them generously because I know they’re exploited and also our family has extra needs) and who also knows about shitty customers, I mostly read the note as “Don’t leave money lying randomly around and then come screaming that the maids have stolen it and you want your room comped. Use the envelope for tips.”

Just be careful with the thread and needles you’re not using/watching if you have a cat.

If you have a greenhouse try that!

I cut my cherry tomato plant down to a stump when the crop is done and the vine shrivels up, but I keep giving it a little water and I usually get a whole fresh vine and winter crop.

I only have pots on a balcony but it’s a very big balcony.

I’m sure you’ve already learned some things about what works and doesn’t in your microclimate. In Zone 7, could you possibly plant something now for a winter crop? (I’m in Los Angeles so I wouldn’t know what to suggest)

I would say that’s true, especially for anyone without long experience, and even increasingly for experts with climate change causing unexpected weather fluctuations.

Depends what kind of talking. I’d rather chat lightly with a total stranger (I’ll help you find what you’re looking for in the grocery store for instance) than get into long deep conversations with family or friends who can bring up deeply personal uncomfortable topics.

Hence hanging out in Lemmy.

Letting Trump win has directly led to the slaughter of thousands of Palestinians. Along with all the other horrors of his reign.

I’m not them, but

https://www.weirdhistorian.com/a-few-cases-of-killer-pigs-facing-capital-punishment/

Note: I suggest you don’t look up “(type of animal) arrested,” because most of what pops up is horrible people arrested for doing terrible things to animals. (Although a couple cats have been “arrested” in modern times.) I just happened to remember the pig trials of yore.

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Both sides lead to the Right Wing

Sweetest gay couple in all literature

They start small, and get big like that if they’re undisturbed. Show up in lawns sometimes too. Taste sour, in a nice way.

Please don’t disable the alerts just because they’re irritating. They have saved so many lives, even though they fuck up sometimes.

Just, instead of panicking, do a quick internet check if you don’t have other evidence of the danger. You might find that you’re not in the danger zone yet but might be soon if the wind changes or whatever. Then you can monitor the situation.

You can also consider them a message from the Universe to check up on your emergency stuff: How much drinking water and food do you have and is it expired? Do you have a bug-out bag and do the pants in it still fit? What would you use to carry all your regular meds? (Don’t store just a few pills, scoop up all the bottles of what you’re normally using, because it might be awhile before you get refills) Do you have a litterbox and food for your cat, as well as a carrier? What about any important documents, know where they are? And where would you go?

Great! If you haven’t already, shower and text her you’re clean and available, although of course you understand if she’s busy right now.

Always keep at least three days worth of drinking water in your home, a gallon per person per day. So many emergency situations, large or small, can make water unavailable or unsafe. Having filters is also helpful, but you need actual full bottles on hand. For less plastic, go with the big bottles, you can drink from cups. And OP could have washed pits and crotch at least using some of his drinking water, since it’s not citywide so he could buy more on the way home from coffee.

That one made me snort!

Honestly, it’s a huge unexpected step from “meet for coffee” to “come shower in my apartment.” Or depending how you worded it, you could sound like you’re just trying to bail on getting together. Just because you’re not lying it’s not necessarily believable, especially in a dating context. Maybe try again when you’re done dealing with this and clean again.

Seems to me your definition of intelligence ignores whole aspects of true intelligence, at least of the human kind, such as emotional intelligence and social intelligence and artistic intelligence and moral intelligence…

“Problem solving” is the name for what you described and it doesn’t necessarily require intelligence. In fact most intelligent people have encountered situations where it made solving a problem more difficult.

Cool, if it’s also Art Nouveau.