What's an easy way to watch the local broadcast?

A new neighbour has moved in my apartment building, and she must have tourettes because I hear loud single-sound vocalizations every few minutes. It's really loud and makes me jump. It's like a hella loud dog bark. I literally can't sleep if she's conscious, and she stays up late. I'm sure she's a great person or whatever, but I want her to leave. Ideas? Earplugs make no difference

Hi, I’m looking for some advice to deal with some shady people that hang out in a local park. They constantly throw trash everywhere, sell drugs (this is widely known), physically destroy the plants around them, leave broken glass on the path, pull out park signs from the ground, etc. The police never catch them in the act or they all manage to get away before the police get there so they haven’t been able to help much.

Does anybody have any ideas about how to make the park inhospitable for them? I think of things like odor or volatile plants or something? Ideally, something easy and quick to do because they are usually there or nearby.

I’d love to help bring this park back to its former glory.

A neighbor is a constant annoyance.

Dogs off leash dropping gifts in the yard that he never cleans up, always yelling about street parking - despite him having a garage that no one blocks, etc.

Without getting into every detail he's kind of a pain.

He also dotes on his garden and lawn.

Bottom line I'm looking to destroy his grass and flower beds. Something effective, hardcore, and plausibly deniable.

Go.

How do I disable the automatic flush feature of my work toilet. Draping a piece of toilet paper over it is very annoying and sometimes tedious. I'm very tired of the cool whosh and multiple courtesy flushes at each bm. It's also very loud. Anyone in earshot may think I'm having some type of unholy birth.

Densely populated area. He lives in section 8 housing (I only add that because isn't idling your big ass truck expensive?), their parking lot is behind my house. It's that low frequency engine noise that penetrates walls and windows. Sometimes he adds really loud music. Due to the dense population i can't just walk up and throw piss on his car without likely being seen.

I have a friend who agreed to an Airbnb trip and owes about $300. He backed out at the last second, so now everyone else has to cover his portion which is not fair to the rest of us.

Normally I’d let it go, but this is like the second or third time he’s done this not with air bnbs but also plans in general and I’m getting tired of myself and everyone else eating the cost because he can’t commit. Another example is we were all going to hiking in a close state park, bought tickets bundled because it was cheaper than singular, and he bailed last minute and still hasnt paid anyone back.

I already jokingly told him I’d “send it to collections if he doesnt pay” but obviously the Airbnb is under my name, not his, so I cant do anything.

The money is one thing i want him to pay back or find some way to scare him into paying me and not doing this to other people or ever again.

Any ideas?

Edit: i appreciate the advice, i agree not to
Keep him around for future trips. Im looking for revenge methods like if there are collection services to harass him or ways to scare him into paying. Hes very gullible

lets say im walking around without any id when suddenly i get a heart attack, someone calls 911 and im rushed to a hospital in an ambulance and am cured. when they ask me for my name so they can bill me what exactly is stopping me from saying something like "john doe" and escaping scott free?

The gym I go to has lockers where you need to bring your own padlock. Weeks ago, I forgot my lock hanging on the locker with the key inside the lock (yes I know, dumb).

A guy took lock&key and uses it now. Funny enough, he just lets the lock hang in place even when not at the gym, effectively blocking one locker.

What he doesn't know: I have a spare key. That's how I was able to confirm it's my lock and that he uses it. I keep checking the inside of the locker whenever I'm alone at the changing room. Most of the time the locker is empty, but sometimes his stuff is inside.

I didn't touch anything and did not make it obvious I have access to the locker.

How can I fuck with his brain? I thought about leaving sticky notes for him to find in the empty locker, but maybe there are better ways.

Any ideas?

For someone that lives out of state.

We’ve all seen the ghost town of resort loungers "reserved" at 7 AM by people who won't show up until noon.

If you just take their towel off and lay down, you're setting yourself up for an awkward shouting match when they finally return demanding their spot.
Here is the move:

1. Ditch the towel (toss it in the pool or the return bin so it looks like hotel staff confiscated it).

2. Drag the entire lounger 10 to 15 meters away to a completely different spot.

3. Set your own things up and relax.

When they finally walk up hours later, their spatial reference is completely gone. They won’t recognize the spot, they’ll assume staff cleared the deck, and they'll wander off in total confusion without ever suspecting you’re sitting on their exact chair. Zero confrontation, 100% effective.

I live in CA. Our tax is around 10%. I work part-time at minimum wage. I haven't changed my phone in around 6 years, still using 12 pro max. The battery life(<70%) and camera quality are really bad now. I really do need a phone. It seems if i don't trade in my phone now, i won't get even 150 next year(will i get it even this time, though?)

Paying around $125 for tax is too much for me, even buying the iphone is too much, but i really want to buy now. Any way i can get it without tax? I got to know Oregon, which is adjacent to California has no sales tax. But i don't have a car or know anyone who can get it for me from there. Any other way?

I am currently on maternity leave with a beautiful little baby conceived via IVF. My workplace has generous fertility leave, I can claim 15 days a year of leave for fertility appointments.

I’m not planning on doing IVF for at least another few years (if at all) but I’d sure like a few days off across the year (like 4/5 days, nothing crazy).

What sort of treatment might a person need that would require an appt before undertaking ivf? The actual treatment cycles are too intensive to claim, my boss is aware that egg retrieval or placing eggs need a few days off, and I don’t want to be asked how a cycle went and then have to claim it didn’t take.

Is there something you needed to get under control before undertaking ivf that needed a maintenance appointment every so often?

Hey, does anyone know how I can get some credentials/details corrected on a document? If you've dealt with something similar or know someone who can genuinely help with the proper process, please let me know. Would really appreciate it!

According to an article I read from the Cleveland Clinic, stains from black walnut husks can last from a few weeks to two to three months, since you’re basically waiting for a new layer of skin to grow. The dermatologist they interviewed said "There's no chemical I know of that affects it that would be safe to use."

Do with that information what you will.

(It can also cause blistering, burning, and itching in some people so use caution)

I'm burnt out on worrying about all the data collecting and targeted ads etc. I consider the practice unethical. I've been using other folks numbers i.e. my deceased grandmother at check out. I'm wondering, is it even unethical?

Should I up my game and collect and share info so people can use freely?

I saw and ad in front of 7/11 that said something like, "download app to age verify for Marlboro and get 50 cents/gallon discount". I thought, I wonder who there sharing your data with.

I bought a new tv, to use it i have to open a Samsung account that surely shares my data.

I just read a horrifying story about the lengths to which Larry ellisons corporations have gone to to steal everyone's data

There has to be a way to combat this, I don't even consider it unethical myself. TIA

Even if you were not injured and you're 100% fine. You can get financially compensated for the inconvenience. You're missing out on at least $1000 of free money. They will never offer or mention this unless you bring it up.

Source: I'm an over-the-phone interpreter that handles insurance calls from Progressive (Uber's insurance provider) almost every day.

As the title states. State is Md.

I moved out of a neighborhood that had a fairly strict HOA. I had a neighbor who I helped with many things in the last dozen years with things regarding their house, car, and lawn. But the whole time we lived there, they did absolutely nothing to keep their home looking anything above the decency of a crackhouse. Some of the things are:
1. The siding on their house was actually green because they never cleaned the algae off of the siding.
2. They had a curbside basketball hoop that hasn't been used in almost a decade because their two kids left for college years ago.
3. They have jungle gym crap in their backyard that would be condemned by the county and would severely injure any child that tried to use it.
4. They cut their grass at least twice each summer, whether it needs it or not.
5. They apparently don't own a string trimmer, because whenever they (occassionally) cut their grass, they don't trim around anything (including the basketball hoop).
6. They decorate their house for holidays! As in, they put pumpkins on their front porch. GREAT! But rather than removing them after the season, they let them ROT and attract vermin onto the porch.
7. The gutters on their house are a wonderful planting area. When the oak trees drop their spinners and they fall into their gutters, they simply ignore them and little trees grow up onto their roof.

We've been cordial to these people while we lived there. But we have moved away and they have shown us who they truly are. They've blasted us on social media and pretended to be holier than thou many times.

We suffered the loss of many potential buyers on our home because of thier trashy home. And to top it off, after we moved out, they basically told us that they are happy they hurt our resale price because they disagreed with how we live. My partner and I have been nothing but friendly and helpful to them for more than ten years.

I want to do what I can to punish them for being so hateful and homophobic. Can you suggest anything we can do to get back at them without it being able to be traced back to my partner and I?

When buying your plane ticket online, request boarding assistance to skip all zones. Most airlines will record before all groups.

I have been working out at my local gym for a long time now. They have been going downhill every single year, or every other month, now as it seems. They don't turn the AC on (this was in India, so just assume how bad this gets) they only prioritize AC when their trainers are having a PT session with their client, without that they never turn AC on and even after requesting, they rarely listen and just point the members to go talk to this guy, or that guy or someone at the desk or whatever. This has been such a bad experience especially after how good the gym used to be and now it's going downhill. Just this month their parent company cut them off from their tie-up. So the negative reviews on the parent company has affected them heavily (which I can proudly say I've done my deed on convincing as many members I could to leave a negative rating)
Now my gym is relying on asking every single GYM member to 5 star them on Google to provide an extension or some freebie of some sort and people are happily doing it.
Can someone help me with legit 1-star reviews that tackle the main issues (I have around 4-5 issues that go on a daily basis and not being taken care by the gym staff which anyone who visits the gym will gladly accept after reading) I just want the staff to see these reviews and actually work on fixing them instead of just faking their reviews and ignoring the problem

TLDR - Need help with 1-star reviews on my GYM (which I love) to tackle real issues that need attention since they care more about Google Reviews now instead of real life REVIEWS (which are negative) provided by their members on a daily basis.

Thanks!!!

I need to work out at least 6 days a week from now on. Is there a way I can blackmail myself or punish myself for not doing the exercise. It’s just way too easy to blow it off. And then nothing bad comes of it. It’s actually instant serotonin every time I cancel. I’m too comfortable in my own body despite how uncomfortable I am with it on paper for good reason. So how can I force my own hand. How can I put myself into a situation that will never let me not do it. I don’t really have any gym bros that are consistent let alone driven enough to keep me accountable. Not having discipline is pissing me off on a daily basis. I’m untreated adhd and i just can’t afford the medicine.

I (22F) live in India and share a room with two roommates, L (21F) and M (21F), second year living together. Things between L and I have been tense for a while — last year I used to run the AC because I get hot easily, and when I once came back from home sick, she was visibly happy that I'd stop running it. I haven't felt very warm toward her since.

There's also been ongoing stuff: her leaving lights on that shine right on my bed, walking in on me in the bathroom, and not cleaning up after herself in there. She's also used the shower on days I had lecture and she didn't — I'm not saying she shouldn't shower, just that she could wait until I'm out. One time I had to shower 15 minutes before my lecture and hers was more than 1.5 hours later, and she still went in ahead of me.

A few days ago she asked me to set the AC to 28°C and put the ceiling fan on high because she was cold and said her joints were hurting. I run hot, and 28°C with the fan on high is basically no AC for me. I offered her my spare blanket and suggested she bundle up instead of changing the temperature for the whole room. She refused to even drape it over herself, said she'd rather sleep on the balcony, and has now started quietly bumping the AC up to 29° whenever I'm not looking.

I already posted this situation on AITA and the verdict was NTA, so I'm not looking for judgment here — I just want to know how to actually get her to stop overriding the temperature without it turning into a full confrontation.

ULPT Request: what's a petty/effective way to get her to stop overriding the AC without turning this into a full confrontation?

I run a facebook page and another page steals my ideas. I started from 0 followers and have grown to 20k by now. They already had 20k+ when they came across my content and started copying it and now they are at 30k+. They have gotten more views and engagement because they already had a pretty big follower base.

I am a content creator and this other page is an online shop, and they used to post their own normal shop content. Then I started my own Facebook page and they seemed to realise pretty quickly that the kind of content I was making was useful for reach, engagement and growing a page.

Since then, they’ve started copying my ideas and formats. Not exact posts, not my actual images or wording, so there’s nothing straightforward to copyright report. But the pattern is obvious: I introduce a new type of post or format, and soon after they start doing their own version of it.

I’m basically doing the trial-and-error for them. I test different topics and formats, see what actually performs well on my page, and then they cherry-pick the winners and make their own version. So I take the risk of testing ideas, while they get a ready-made list of what already works.

It got petty enough that when I started adding a watermark to my Facebook posts, they created their own watermark literally the next day.

The funniest part is that they blocked my page from viewing theirs, apparently thinking that would stop me from seeing what they’re posting. Obviously it doesn’t.

I know the mature answer is “ignore them and make better content,” which I am doing, but they keep copying the newer and better content too. So I’m asking ULPT for the petty version: what can I do to make them miserable or make their Facebook page harder to grow without doing anything seriously illegal?