I was driving through Maryland, it was getting late, and I saw a hotel that was $45 per night. I literally thought to myself, “WTF, I just need a bed, how much could really go wrong if I stay here.”
The room opened straight to the parking lot, and there were cats everywhere outside crying. I said hello to one of them, he was clearly in bad shape and so I went and got some cat food and invited him in and gave him some food. He bit me so I put him back outside and went to sleep.
I was most of the way on the drive home when I noticed I had red welts in a little line down my arm. You fucker, you have to be kidding me.
I basically stripped in the parking lot of my place, went in and took a long shower first thing, and put into the garbage all the clothes I’d had with me, suitcase, shoes, my backpack after taking the computer and notebook out. I put them all in a trash bag in the parking lot and then threw it in a dumpster that wasn’t near any residence. Then I vacuumed my car and took a long shower again.
Fuckin bedbugs. I had no bedbugs carried back to my place after that and that’s how I like it. $45 for the hotel cost me maybe $300 worth of stuff that I decided to get rid of.
Little buddy was suffering. Nobody wants to see that and I had nothing else going on that night anyway. On the other hand, if it turns out he’s an asshole, then I feel comfortable saying he’s not my problem.
Just as a quick note. Cats can have rabies. You might want to go and tell your doctor that you've received a cat bite from an unknown cat and get a rabies shot because once you start showing symptoms you're already dead.
Oh no I totally get it, I would love to save a random street cat, but like, in some random hotel room? You’re the reason hotels have fleas and bed bugs lol. You’re very well meaning, but clearly lacking in common sense.
There are a lot of people who’ve interacted with cats they don’t know. Between the cat, animal control, the hotel, and the local health department, I like how you’ve chosen me as the one in this situation that clearly did something wrong lol.
Fucking bed bugs, indeed. I wouldn’t wish them on my worst enemy except maybe Putin.
They literally cost our entire Spring in tearing our house apart to address them. So much shit moved, tossed out, cleaned, then cleaned again… No idea where they even came from.
I saw this today and searched for any other articles where The Times of Israel uses the word “genocide”… This complete lack of self-criticism is what made Israel an apartheid state.
The article actually addressed this and apparently they are even developing some resistance to diatomaceous earth. The only sure fire treatments described are extreme heat or cold. It’s a pretty horrifying situation we’ve made for ourselves.
Also, the fumigation packets for livestock stalls, but you need to duck tape your contractor bags of clothes, etc. closed and leave them outside for 6-10 days.
I once had a pretty bad bed bug infestation and tested DE by putting a bedbug in a cup of it… It lived for weeks before I killed it by hand. DE only hinders their movement in my experience, you need stronger stuff to kill them.
Cedar oil literally melts them. After weeks of trying everything we could get our hands on ($$$ gone), I tried straight up cedar oil in a spray bottle and found immediate delight in watching those mothefuckers writhe in agony as they shriveled and died. The others tried helplessly to flee, but I was undaunted and hunted them down, one by one. None lived to tell the tale, and all were chemically dessicated and vacuumed up.
There's also the fact that we quit using DDT in most of our insecticides and DDT was great at killing bed bugs it just was also cancer causing in humans.
But the main reason why it’s boom time for bedbugs, according to the review, is that they’ve evolved resistance to many pesticides, our main line of defense. Indeed, these critters are now resistant to “most of the major classes of insecticides,” the review states, including pyrethroids, which is still one of the most commonly used insecticides. They’ve also developed resistance to DDT, which attacks insects in a similar way to pyrethroids.
At one point our neighbors self treated their bed bugs and it spread throughout the apartment complex and into our unit. In any case, the dog that came to our unit was a beagle. And it made my day in that shitty situation. It was adorable.
There are lots of things that glow under ultraviolet light. It’s honestly hard for me to see why they would decide to spray a compound including one of the most toxic heavy metals in the world unless it was deliberately to poison people.
The only thing that could persuade me is if at the time that information wasn’t widely known. Otherwise it looks pretty bad. Especially when you think about the Tuskegee syphilis experiments on black folk.
Nothing be done and no money given out. East Plastine is still fucked and that was unpreventable accident. Government doing on purpose damn sure not going make this right.
I wouldn’t say fair. They are a state-owned press agency, and accordingly their material should be read in the context of how it aligns with the views of the Qatari government.
But they do have a perspective they report from, and that perspective deserves to be voiced just as much as any of the more western-aligned publications. Like most stories, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle, so I see them as a check on otherwise one-sided accounts of the Middle East.
To my knowledge gerrymandering only affects district races, e.g. state legislature and congressional house races. I don’t see a way a party can gerrymander a statewide race.
To my knowledge gerrymandering only affects district races, e.g. state legislature and congressional house races. I don’t see a way a party can gerrymander a statewide race.
It looks like what killed this was low turn out among Democrats. You can’t win if you don’t vote.
“Democratic turnout has been weak,” Louisiana-based pollster John Couvillon told The Hill earlier this week.
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Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, criticized members of the Democratic Party for not putting more resources into the race.
“There’s really no discussion, and more importantly, very little lack of investment in voter mobilization,” Albright told The Hill. “That includes the party itself not putting a lot into this election, which, unfortunately, is a pattern that we’re seeing in Southern states in general and particularly in states that have Black candidates.”
So after the federal and local democrats destroyed like 90% of their economy several times you expect them to pick someone from the same party to run the state?
To my knowledge gerrymandering only affects district races, e.g. state legislature and congressional house races. I don’t see a way a party can gerrymander a statewide race. It looks like what killed this was low turn out among Democrats.
You can’t win if you don’t vote.
“Democratic turnout has been weak” Louisiana- based pollster John Couvillon told The Hill earlier this week.
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Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, criticized members of the Democratic Party for not putting more resources into the race.
“There’s really no discussion, and more importantly, very little lack of investment in voter mobilization”’ Albright told The Hill. “That includes the party itself not putting a lot into this election, which, unfortunately, is a pattern that we’re seeing in Southern states in general and particularly in states that have Black candidates.”
The previous governor was technically a Dem, but would be unrecognizable in any other state. Edwards won against David Vitter because Vitter was shitty enough that even some repubs couldn’t stomach him. He won as incumbent against Eddie Rispone because Rispone was a crummy snake and everyone saw through him.
All that said, we do have incredible gerrymandering skills.
Louisiana Democrats barely tried. The governor is elected by the entire state, so gerrymandering doesn’t really affect it directly. Indirectly, districts that are safe one way or the other tend to make people feel like they don’t need to vote because they are confident that their candidate will win. It permits and encourages complacency and apathy.
The LA Democrat party has been in disarray for years. The leadership has been ineffective at best and borderline (or in some cases outright) corrupt at worst. They ran an unlikeable candidate with a good bit of baggage as their candidate. Even if he had held Landry enough to force a runoff, he didn’t have enough support from Republican voters for it not to have been a landslide.
CITIZEN: Good faith questions (even if brought up by the second sentence in the story) are unwelcome unless they conform to lemmy’s zeitgeist.
(Now say something anti-Ireal and you might get some points back. Of course that might get you called an anti-Semite. Either way, you’re basically a terrorist. 🤷🏻♂️ You really can’t win.)
Unfortunately Hamas’s success was far beyond their expectations. They were left unchecked for hours and during that time chose to commit the worst type of atrocities.
In doing so, they validated Israelis fears that if the “Palestinians” could, they would torture, rape and kill every single Israeli including the elderly and children.
Israel is now a country in trauma and is driven be vengeance and fear.
Sadly, at this point, no amount of world criticism will make any difference.
The only way to prevent massive casualties on both sides is if Hamas releases the civilian hostages.
You’re not wrong, but with the tensions in Israel’s northern border and with Hizbolla signalling that they will launch an assault if Israel moves into Gaza, releasing the hostages might just be the excuse everyone needs to de-escalate.
That’s been the case for decades but a lot of the world won’t hold them accountable for their own actions.
Palestinian lives and civil rights almost always take a backseat to Israeli rhetoric and posturing on the world stage. The loss of any innocent life is tragic whether it be Israeli, Palestinian, or otherwise and should be treated as such.
Unfortunately for everyone Palestine/Gaza has become so desperate to escape their shrinking cage that they seem to have resorted to desperate and despicable tactics, and Israel will gladly commit genocide if the world allows them to. It’s a no win situation that should be defused by world powers, not encouraged and bankrolled by them.
Most stores today would be built with steel and aluminium with composite walls. Not sure why they’re going for brick. It’s much more expensive. Even wood framed would be a better option.
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