Curious! Is your main market other fire dancers, joke gifts, or weird sex thing?

Or do you just not ask questions and happily take your little bit of cash?

Cause 3k a year ain’t nothing to sneeze at. $200ish a month if you are only clearing your bills by $50 can make a WORLD of difference.

Adding to google maps = easy and helpful

Making different social media pages with menu/pictures then giving it to the owner = fine

Anything beyond that?

I ain’t dealing with that. Getting people to actually click on things is a dark and maddening experience. I’ve tried to GIVE AWAY things to promote events, and I can’t get folks to click on stupid links.

Also many social media commenters prove that you don’t have to have a brain to learn to write, so Jellyfish should be writing fb comments on your local vegan restaurant complaining about lack of fish options any day now.

Huh, I never considered that one. But I guess if a neighbor advertised “10$ to bring over your knives and I’ll make them like new” I probably would at least try it since I have some pretty nice knives that I’ve been struggling with that are really old.

I am sad to report I have tried to sharpen my own knives… using a thing I bought off amazon. It dud not work out.

I’m doing online college atm, and there is a forum post assignment each week.

I dread having to respond to my other “class mates” because half of them are clearly using AI. Like having to read a single sentence of AI slop makes me lose the will to live. Spending my mental energy to read something no one was willing to put in the energy to write is not what I wanna spend my days doing.

The school, like all universities, are working on new policies. But it’s just so painful to prove someone is using AI beyond a reasonable doubt. Sometimes folks accidentally include something where the answer basically includes something like “as an AI” , and those generally get removed quickly and I don’t see that student post ever again. Or someone posted code where in it there was a comment that said “Then you can repeat this process to write the rest of the program”

So yeah, if you made a game out of catching AI slop, more power to you. You are a stronger, or more deranged, internet user than me.

With any upholstered furniture we’ve bought (Since we’ve bought some for personal use), we keep it in the garage and treat it for like a week before it comes inside. We don’t do it often and have yet to have a problem, but anytime we buy something soft we are very concerned we are inviting demons into the house.

Honestly just convincing old folks that “Hey whenever something stressful happens on your computer, please for the love of god just call me.”

Is worth its weight in gold to prevent scams. A big thing scammer prey on is shame, blaming the individual. If there is someone they have paid to help them and trust to help them with any issue without judgement, I would hope they would lean on that person when scared by a scammer. So as long as it’s for the right reasons I can see how cool that could be!

I do like the computer literacy classes that get ran for older folks, and the ones about avoiding scams. So I can see how this can be good!

It fully depends on if you’re doing it at your house, or the house of the child you are watching, and the state.

But the rules don’t matter as long as no one is a narc!

“For instance, most states and territories do not require an in-home child care provider to be licensed if they provide care on an occasional basis, provide care in your home, or are related to the children in their care.”

Which my thing “might” break.

Oh man I loved when Evermore (RIP) had fire dancers. But it was funny because for their major events they would hire super skilled pros, then their daily shows they would have a staff member that they had taught or was a hobbyist before being hired. They were fun and skilled, but the difference was very obvious in variety of tricks and number of failed tricks.

Which makes sense considering their financial troubles, but imagine being that fire dancer on staff being like “Super hyped for tonight’s show!” and them just being like “Ahh, did no one tell you? We hired someone for five times your nightly wage to do tonight’s show cause they’re a lot better”

https://childcare.gov/consumer-education/informal-in-home-child-care#:~:text=Your state or territory may,to ensure the children’s safety.

“For instance, most states and territories do not require an in-home child care provider to be licensed if they provide care on an occasional basis, provide care in your home, or are related to the children in their care.”

That is why I gave the “it depends”

So a baby sitter baby sitting and the home of the child is completely legally fine. If you are doing it at your own home, or watching unrelated children, it can be iffy.

https://childcare.gov/consumer-education/informal-in-home-child-care#:~:text=Your state or territory may,to ensure the children’s safety.

That’s why I said it depends on state/situation.

A little bit of legally dubious action to pay the bills and siphon money from billion dollar companies never hurt nobody!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FW99X9Z?_encoding=UTF8&pf_rd_p=95590a51-8b9e-49a7-bb36-7db49ee510df&pf_rd_r=1H8PF6FSJNKSFTQ26RYQ&pd_rd_wg=M35DG&pd_rd_i=B08FW99X9Z&pd_rd_w=VCFKH&content-id=amzn1.sym.95590a51-8b9e-49a7-bb36-7db49ee510df&pd_rd_r=6e8f84dd-a9c2-4ec1-89b5-033d10379575&psc=1

$50 dollars for THREE, UNASSEMBLED, and UNPAINTED minis? Yeah man, I ain’t gonna question why the texture of your warhammer minis are different. Game on.

Editing ChatGPT generated content sounds soul crushing tbh.

That makes sense! If they are similar to my dog, I probably wouldn’t notice that much, and if they provided the food and stuff, I wouldn’t need to charge much.

Well getting nice furniture from a hobby sounds pretty chill regardless!

Every now and then my eyes pop at the cost of new furniture.

Oh yeah all the influencer side hustles are straight trash.

My friend if you actually made $1000 a day working 2 hour, you wouldn’t be uploading here my dude!

I mean, unless they are ferrying weapons across the great salt lake, I don’t think it applies to me XD

But if Californians wanna disrupt all trade on the west coast I wish them all the luck.

That is very reasonable take. I mean I don’t have kids so a rifle in a gun safe probably is harmless. If it never gets used, it’ll just be a funny story of that time Ericbomb got paranoid and bought a gun because of encouragement from some weirdos off fake Reddit.

Owning a gun scares me since it’s been decided that if a cop sees you touch a gun they can kill you and it’ll almost certainly be ruled fine. Maybe I’ll get something for home that stays here and just keep taking my pepper spray around.

2A so important right?

But, good points… I ahh, may or may not already be housing some friends that were kicked out of their houses for life style differences. Such as you know, not being Mormon.

But wonderful points!

You know what? That does help, thank you. This feeling you get when something goes terribly wrong that says “do something” can be good, but also very stressful because WTF are we supposed to do about an election like this?

I mean I hope they investigate, considering you know, the whole attempting to over throw the government thing. For all we know there already is evidence and they just are collecting. But yeah, not holding my breath for that one. I always knew we were bad at punishing criminal billionaires, but I would have never guessed “Rich man attempts to over throw government, is found guilty of various crimes and rape. Is handed government for his trouble.”

But sounds like we do have to wait and watch for at least the moment. I do hope maybe a few republican senators will want to slow things down, or at least want to pretend to be the sane ones.

Brain always goes for that price/oz amount.

Annoys me when sale tags don’t also have it.