u/ryhaltswhiskey

I think it's the neighborhood cats killing small animals around here. Or the plum trees in the backyard dropping fruit this time of year.

On a typical day when it was warm yesterday and then it gets cold today I get about 10 house flies in my house. But it's a constant problem in the summertime. I'm talking about flies that are metallic blue or green and about a quarter inch long. Bottle flies I think is the name.

I have a Zevo (sp?) plug in blue light thing that is supposed to attract flies. It doesn't work on house flies.

I have used a bait trap outside before but the smell was so disgusting that I don't want to have to do that again.

Is there something I can put outside that will attract them that doesn't smell absolutely foul?

I can't smell anything rotten in my house right now and I don't see any maggots around. Same for the garage. This isn't an occasional thing it's a continuous problem all summer.

I put up a mesh screen on the door between the house and the garage but that doesn't seem to have really done anything.

Preferably you've got one that you've had for a decade and it's been great and you want to share the brand...

Emmy Rossum plays a cop that becomes an FBI agent who is trying to track down a serial killer. She's doing a really good job of playing somebody with PTSD. She's a very serious person in this show. It's a far cry from Shameless. Solid performances all around really.

It's dark material though. Sex trafficking and underage prostitution. And also a character picking up their phone after touching raw chicken.

I'm liking it. It's got 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. Hulu.

Because damn we got a lot of them around here and I'm sick of it.

And if you're about to reply with "well 80% of women are dating 10% of guys" or other "dating realist" nonsense, save your breath I'll just block you. Try believing in things that are real and credible.

Edit: please read the title the question is not how many days a week do you do cardio

How did it go? If you saw improvements, what improved?

I'm considering switching over to daily cardio to improve my alertness during the day and hopefully to improve my sleep quality*. Specifically a few minutes of zone 4 cardio everyday. You get a norepinephrine boost out of it.

* if you're about to tell me to stop drinking and go to bed at the same time yada yada: don't worry about it, these are not problems that I have. If you think I might have a problem, ask if I have the problem before you go telling me how to fix it.

I'm building a deck right now. About 18x18, with chamfer corners on two corners. And I want to run some string lights across it in an X. On the house side I will just attach them to the eaves, but on the yard side I'm not sure what to attach them to. There's no trees that are convenient.

I think the obvious thing to do is to put some sort of post at the chamfer corners. But I want something that looks good, not just plain wood. Are there any sort of pre-made posts that I can use to run some string lights? It would need to be about 10 ft tall to rise above the surface of the deck high enough. But probably 12 ft total considering that there's some slope to consider here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1w1f3ob/the_engineer_who_designed_that_houses_column/

Those flood waters are INSANE. From looking at that footage it almost seems like a dam must have broken, but it's just really bad rainfall? What caused these floods to be this bad?

I'm just kind of getting tired of people who think that their opinion is the same as evidence. I thought this was a sub for serious discussions of the science around sex and psychology.

I posted here a couple weeks ago about having a bunch of house flies in the house and trying to figure out some strategies to passively get rid of them. I settled on that UV light fly trap thing that plugs into an outlet.

But since I posted the fly problem is gone.

The other day I was sweeping out the garage and I grabbed a push broom and about 30 fly eggs dropped out of it. My best guess here is that there was some residual moisture in the broom because I was sweeping out the garage after spraying it with water (one corner of the garage has a low spot). So some housefly decided that was a great place to put eggs because there was water in the bristles and it was near the garbage can.

So dry out your brooms if they get wet.

I've been on the phone for 24 minutes. The person who was trying to fix my issue got on the phone every 3 minutes to say "thanks for your patience, I'm still working on your issue, do you mind holding on the line for a few more minutes"

Twice I told her to leave me on hold until the issue was resolved. She ignored that. Is this some sort of script they have to follow?

Oh, the fun part: I asked to be transferred to someone else. The new person told me I was in the wrong dept.

This internet enshittification just sucks.

Lab verified is important because the amount of RS2 in a flour can vary by up to 30%.

I've been doing research on this and I can't find one. Chiquita Green banana flour is the closest I can find but I can't find that for sale. I've found plenty of flours that have RS2, but none of them are verified by a lab.

I'd just like to buy about a pound of it to experiment in cooking.

I connected with someone last week. She told me that she was having a work crisis and that she'd like to get together after the work crisis is resolved.

We texted a lot over a few days and as I got to know her I became pretty excited about getting to know her better. To the tune of about 60 messages exchanged over the course of 3 days. That's a lot of texting to me. And a lot of voice chat because she sort of talks for a living, I don't want to give away what she does for a living.

I wanted to get together because I know how easy it is to build somebody up in your head. But she wanted to delay it because of the work crisis.

Then the cadence switched. She was responding to messages but not initiating conversation. I asked her if she was stressed about something and she said yeah I'm just busy. Which makes sense, the work crisis as far as I can tell is still going. But "I'm just busy" is a big yellow flag for me. She did apologize for not texting more.

I sent a message on Sunday evening and she has not responded.

I'm anxious attachment and yesterday completely sucked because it felt like someone that I was extremely interested in had just decided to bail for no reason that I could determine. Let's just say she checks a lot of boxes for who I'm looking for. And I've been having a hard time finding somebody like her.

However, going radio silence like this really bothers me. I've decided to just not say anything until it's been a week since we talked and then ask her what's going on because it's been a week since we've talked.

So how would a person with secure attachment handle this situation? Just give her enough rope to figure out what she's going to do? Or reach out and say hey I haven't heard from you for a while are you having a bad time? I mean for all I know one of her parents died or something... There could be a lot of reasons.

Also she has ADHD and I think the hyper-focus switch is possibly what's happening here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/1vxz41h/200000_visas_are_about_to_be_revoked_from_people/

The claim here is that 200,000 visas are about to be revoked. I'm pretty connected to what's happening in politics but there's always some new rumor about what the Trump administration is about to do that I hear about out of the blue.

So this came up recently. A service that we rely on for financial data had an issue in production and went down for about an hour on a Monday around noon. My team got pinged about it and from the error message it seemed like we couldn't connect to the data source. So we did some digging yada yada and it turns out that the service was having some issues and was currently unavailable.

So I brought up that it would be nice if there was some place we could look to see if this service was currently having issues, like a dashboard. Like so many organizations do.

We don't have a dashboard. So what we do is go look in a teams channel to see if somebody has posted about the issue. Which is all kinds of fraught with accuracy issues.

One of the organization leaders said something to the effect of this is why it would be better for us to just replicate the data instead of having to rely on a service that might not have the SLAs that we do.

I'd rather the service was just reliable and we didn't have to introduce another moving part involving moving the data from one place to another. Because we're having enough trouble getting this data to actually be accurate now we would have to check whether it's accurate and whether it's been replicated properly.

This is not real-time data. This is reporting data. It's current to midnight of the current day.

Which would you pick? What would you be asking for out of leadership?

I have bought it before off of Amazon. But that supplier is unreliable and their prices fluctuate a lot, sometimes that GBF is really expensive. I'd like to pick up a few pounds of it to mix into protein shakes and take a probiotic with that occasionally.

If you're going to suggest a source please suggest a source that you have actually purchased gbf from. If you just Google this and share an Amazon link or the first Google hit and think that that's helping it's not.