Random Unthreadworthy Questions

[dan_pdx]

Thanks for the pro tips on my rat problem under the porch. Been awhile since I had to crawl around in a rodent-infested space, so good to have the heads up on hantavirus, that wasn't on my radar.

Poison is off the menu: I had to get into a floor to remove a dead rat once, and it's pretty high on the list of things I hope to never do again. I'll stick with traps. I'll try to get them in the basement and/or under the porch, then work on sealing up their entrance. Seems rodents don't like strobe lights so I was looking around for a way to put a strobe light with a motion sensing switch under there for long term deterrence, but I can't find anything battery powered.

[old goat]

The problem with strobes is that they attract ravers, who are worse than rats. IMO.

[riser4]

The problem with strobes is that they attract ravers, who are worse than rats. IMO.

Ravers might have good drugs.

[dan_pdx]

Ravers might have good drugs.

Yeah, no rats AND a steady supply of E sound pretty okay to me, why isn't everyone doing it?

[Thaleia]

You guys are making me miss the 90's..

[The AD]

We used mint spray around our house a couple years ago to repel rats. I was dubious, but it actually worked.

[jm2e]

Am I overthinking the possibility of rat poison getting into my food?

You won’t die from rat poison. You’ll get bloody diarrhea.
If you have bloody diarrhea and don’t go to a doctor, you might die.



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[Thaleia]

Thanks for the pro tips on my rat problem under the porch. Been awhile since I had to crawl around in a rodent-infested space, so good to have the heads up on hantavirus, that wasn't on my radar.

Poison is off the menu: I had to get into a floor to remove a dead rat once, and it's pretty high on the list of things I hope to never do again. I'll stick with traps. I'll try to get them in the basement and/or under the porch, then work on sealing up their entrance. Seems rodents don't like strobe lights so I was looking around for a way to put a strobe light with a motion sensing switch under there for long term deterrence, but I can't find anything battery powered.

Bike LED's have a strobe setting.

You won’t die from rat poison. You’ll get bloody diarrhea.
If you have bloody diarrhea and don’t go to a doctor, you might die.



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Noted..

[old goat]

Ravers might have good drugs.

Yeah, no rats AND a steady supply of E sound pretty okay to me, why isn't everyone doing it?

Everyone isn't doing it because they go to someone else's place to trash the place, leave used condoms and dirty needles around, and piss off the neighbors.

[BmillsSkier]

What's that internet archive page that allows you to enter in a url and you can read articles behind paywalls?

[gravitylover]

It was hacked recently but I think is still operating. archive.org I think, also called the Wayback Machine.

[BmillsSkier]

Thanks GL!

[J. Barron DeJong]

What's that internet archive page that allows you to enter in a url and you can read articles behind paywalls?

https://archive.ph/

[Flounder]

Where’s Greg from AlpineZone? I like to check the Sugarbush thread to see how far behind schedule the Heavens Gate lift replacement is. Seems like all those fancy servers of his have failed and it just returns a database error. Hard to believe the manky ole TGR forum is going to outlive both Epic and AlpineZone. Guess the investment in box fans is really paying off.

[MultiVerse]

Why is MAGA going after Puerto Rico? A serious question. Not interested in politics or name calling, just trying to understand the backstory?

[Cisco Kid]

Pretty simple at it's core. The people are the wrong color.

[skaredshtles]

Pretty simple at it's core. The people are the wrong color.

And they speak the wrong language.

[dan_pdx]

And just to compound things, they can't be deported!

I guess I don't understand the original question. Doesn't Occam's Razor apply? They shit on Puerto Rico because they don't like people who aren't white.

[MultiVerse]

I'm seeing widespread criticism of the joke so maybe racism is the explanation. FWIW, I think there should be more legal immigration especially when to it comes to granting foreign students citizenship and when it comes to filling labor shortages. There's probably a racist element to the illegal immigration debate. But most, around 70-percent, of Americans support a more extensive pathway to legal citizenship. A similar percentage opposes illegal immigration.

So let's ignore the racist minority. Is it something along the lines of not enfranchising 3 million American citizens with statehood? Is that even on people's radar?

[plugboots]

I was thinking more: what’s the political gain in thrashing PR? Does it just whip the base into even more of a froth, so “undecided racists” vote for tfg?

[BmillsSkier]

https://archive.ph/

Thanks, that's the one I was thinking of.

In case anyone was wondering, this is the article that I was trying to read (you will have to plug it into the link above to get beyond paywall). I do not practice criminal law or litigation of any type but stories like this fascinate me - in this case how a little known force of police pseudo-scientists across the country are formulating reasons to detain and test people suspected of driving high - and how such "science" is being challenged in court.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/...-nonsense.html

[Dantheman]

And just to compound things, they can't be deported!

I guess I don't understand the original question. Doesn't Occam's Razor apply? They shit on Puerto Rico because they don't like people who aren't white.

The over/under on the number that even realize Puerto Ricans are full American citizens with passports is probably pretty low.

I'm seeing widespread criticism of the joke so maybe racism is the explanation. FWIW, I think there should be more legal immigration especially when to it comes to granting foreign students citizenship and when it comes to filling labor shortages. There's probably a racist element to the illegal immigration debate. But most, around 70-percent, of Americans support a more extensive pathway to legal citizenship. A similar percentage opposes illegal immigration.

So let's ignore the racist minority. Is it something along the lines of not enfranchising 3 million American citizens with statehood? Is that even on people's radar?

Sure, most Rs/conservatives claim to support legal immigration as a general concept, but when you get into the actual specific forms of legal immigration we already have most do not support expanding those programs. Trump actively railed against every single one of them during his term and cut them back as aggressively as he possibly could.




Then you also have psychos like Anne Coulter who are on record saying we should have a complete immigration moratorium indefinitely.

“The only possibility is to shut the entire thing down, complete immigration moratorium. No getting in on marriages, family reunification, the humanitarian cases, the refugee cases, those are absolutely the biggest frauds — for at least 10 years. Just shut it down, take some time to assimilate the people already here and build the fence. Then we ‘ll start from scratch and write the new rules.”
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/c...l-immigration/
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a...tion-plan-wall

[MultiVerse]

Oh for sure, Anne Coulter et al are having a moment. But most Americans repudiate both Trump's "invasion" rhetoric and fully permissive "open border" immigration. So there needs to be a policy that doesn't turn people against immigration in general

In case anyone was wondering, this is the article that I was trying to read (you will have to plug it into the link above to get beyond paywall). I do not practice criminal law or litigation of any type but stories like this fascinate me - in this case how a little known force of police pseudo-scientists across the country are formulating reasons to detain and test people suspected of driving high - and how such "science" is being challenged in court.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/...-nonsense.html

Police formulating reasons to detain and test people suspected of driving high seems similar to quite a few other techniques like drug sniffing dogs trained to alert on command by their handlers

[dan_pdx]

Re: immigration, isn't our economy basically a Ponzi scheme that falls apart when the population starts declining? We should be grateful people still want to come here, just need to figure out the right process. My Indian colleague and his wife have four graduate degrees between them and they moved to Canada after trying and failing to get US green cards. We should be welcoming those immigrants in, not chasing them away

[MultiVerse]

"You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American" - Ron RayGun, 1988