unsettlinglymoist
I was intrigued by your description but also thought I'd hate it. Gave it a listen and was pleasantly surprised, he's super talented and his music is totally unique.
I've been getting into tech house lately. It's fun and catchy with really satisfying bass.
I lived in a cheap studio in Boston that was infested with roaches. Every 3-4 months I would spray Raid where the walls met the floor and that always worked well until they gradually started appearing again.
I lived in another studio that got a bedbug infestation. My building's management paid for the place to be heat treated -- they wheeled in two giant space heaters and had them powered by a generator on a truck five stories below on the street. I never saw another one again, but it destroyed all my books.
Nowadays I'm way more picky about where I live and I haven't had any pest issues in over a decade.
72 F / 22 C in winter and 68 F / 20 C in summer. We live in a LEED Platinum building and the electric bill for our 2-bedroom apartment never goes above $50, so we set it to whatever is most comfortable.
Mine has trekking poles! (Colorado)
I learned about this from a can of ///Fear.Movie.Lions beer from Stone Brewing:
What 3 words pinpoint where this indelible beast was born? The location is printed on the can. There’s a 3m x 3m square in our Richmond, VA brewery with these three words painted on it. What three words? Exactly! For the uninitiated, that's What3Words.
I worked for a state government agency that had a bunch of Americorps volunteers working in our office and I became friends with most of them. They were in the office with us every day and they made $1000/month IIRC, and they were all on food stamps. Really dumb indeed to cut these people who do important work for a fraction of the cost of a salaried employee.
I worked at one of these places in the US, they absolutely do exist. It was a free "market" stocked daily with produce, meat and a huge assortment of food products and our "shoppers" pushed carts around our market and picked whatever they wanted off the shelves.
I agree with your main point though, shit is fucked and things aren't getting better and our political system is broken beyond repair.
Not really, my car was a mess! At least nothing was missing though.
So this isn't a VPN service, but having read your comments it might work...
When I was in Sweden recently I needed to do something online with the appearance that I was in the US. First I tried using a couple of VPN services but they were detected by the website I was trying to use and I got an "access denied" message. So my travel partner activated their Verizon TravelPass and let me hotspot off it. TravelPass gave us a regular Verizon wireless address out of California and I was able to complete my task. Unfortunately though it's $12/day.
But that would require getting up off my sofa and walking across the living room.