u/OscarAndDelilah

Before anyone comes at me for ripping out windows, our current windows are badly installed low-budget 1990s vinyl replacement windows. We want to replace them with properly installed windows that are more energy efficient and more soundproof. The local people I know are all people who restore original windows. Where does one find non-scammers to order/replace windows? Or is the talk about the big companies being scammers overblown?

Is there somewhere that lists when the closures start and end? Where's the best place to enter/exit? Thanks!

Is there a sub for minimizing waste/impact where people understand that folks are doing the best they can, disabled folks exist, rural folks exist, and so forth? The big ones seem to be full of people who jump down posters' throats for using mail order at all ("uh, go to a store?!?") and for purchasing any prepackaged foods.

Oscar, quit howling at the plants. You're scaring them.

I have an array of ferns and spider plants in my bathtub (low/med light, high/variable humidity). This is an old picture to get an idea of the setup; there are more plants and they are fuller now. The lemon button shown was a root rot rescue from someone and sadly did not survive.

I currently have a staghorn potted in moss, a bird's nest fern, and a Boston fern, all doing well for one year plus. The Boston though needs to get swapped out, as the type of foliage means that it drops the little leafy dudes and they end up in the drain. The other plants all have foliage types where if anything dies, it stays attached and I just clip it off.

What fern varieties have a similar look to the Boston fern but don't drop foliage so readily?

Hey anyone have any connections to these folks? I emailed with them weeks ago, then booked a service at the link they gave me. Appointment is today. Took the afternoon off and rode over from Roxbury and it looks like they’re closed. Their website says they’re closed on Sunday and Monday. Didn’t look at that since they sent me a booking link. Assumed it was only days they are open.

EDIT: Owner wrote back:

“Hello,
Unfortunately Sunday and Monday we are closed. I have to double check with the booking company, why they allowed to book on a monday. 

I apologize for the inconvenience.  

-Spiros”

OK, they did respond which is nice, but this doesn’t help me get my bike fixed or acknowledge my wasted time. I’m also a small business owner and would be going all out to try and make it right if I did something like this. Doesn’t seem like they’re particularly interested in my business.

Um, so, since y’all were so amazing last time, who else besides these folks are good with a ridiculously stuck seatpost? I WILL get this thing removed dammit!

I follow a number of these feeding and general toddler development accounts since I do infant/toddler evaluations including feeding evaluations. They honestly seem to get as many of these ridiculous r/nooneasked food moralizing comments as the anti-diet pages.

I just saw a nice post that was busting the myth of needing to give kids bland/beige food and explaining that there is no reason for it and it leads them to develop a limited palate. There was a video of someone putting butter and dried spices on what appeared to be standard white-flour penne.

Holy god were the comments awful. All these people saying they can't believe you would feed a child something with absolutely no nutrients, comments about how children do not need carbs, comments about how that's too much butter, comments calling it "shitty processed food." Seriously? I'm used to seeing those obnoxious comments around things like boxed mac and cheese, but pasta?!

I'm interested in things with more of a documentary production style, like the Unsolved Mysteries podcast. I'm OK with a bit of banter and irreverence mixed in, like the Ryan and Shane Buzzfeed Unsolved series, but not really interested in the shows that are purely unrehearsed conversational-style presentation and/or have too much off-topic unfunny "humor."

(I probably don't need to say this here, but also not interested in victim-blaming, disrespect for families, or people who are suspiciously uncritical of policing and the justice system.)