Iirc, all basements leak if the ground is saturated. Basement walls are made if concrete or concrete block, which is porus. With enough water on one side, it will eventually start seeping through. This is why ground slope around the house is important, and adding soil and gravel is actually a ling term fix in most cases - as long as the water runs away from the house rather than pooling around it, it won't saturate the ground and the basement won't seep.
Caveat - I'm no expert. But friends had this problem, and proper drainage solved it
Then why did you post it in You Should Know, or mention some junk pop psy garbage? If you wanted to hate on Trump, just make a shitpost in the shitpost sub with the title "I hate this guy".
A picture of Trump smiling isn't evidence of anything. This might be the way he smiles when he shits himself. And if you want evidence that he is a con man, its not like you have to try very hard. This picture ain't gonna sway a 3 time Trump supporter, lol. Just admit that you're having an anti-Trump circlejerk, and I'll lend you my hand. But acting like you're outing him using pop psychology you heard about from your moms Readers Digest is top-tier smoothbrain. Gonna analyze his zodiac sign next?
I feel like this graphic needs more context to really get much out of it. I want different graphics - American immigration as percentage of state population, international immigration as a percentage of state population, total american immigration, total international immigration. On its own, this graphic is very confusing.
Additionally confusing is that most international immigration to the US is illegal - so statistics could be significantly skewed based on how safe illegal immigrants feel about answering a census survey in their state.
Anyway, my interpretation:
Beige states (Pop Decline) - people are fleeing the high cost of living in LA, SF, Chicago, and NYC, leaving for more mid-tier cities elsewhere. Meanwhile, people are fleeing the low standard of living and lack of job opportunities in Louisiana, Mississippi, and West Virginia - well known as some of the worst states to live in.
Dark red states (100%) - Same as the beige states, but with enough opportunity for under the table jobs that illegal immigrants will move there. Iowa, Kansas, New Mexico, and Ohio fall in the same category of "low standard of living" states. The others are likely splitting the difference between people fleeing HCOL cities and low quality of life rural areas, Pennsylvania being a prime example.
Between these two extremes are states where the American population increased - places where americans are moving to, or at least sticking around and having kids at greater than replacement rate. Unfortunately, we don't know much beyond that, since we don't know how many people are really moving into or out of a state. Is Montana at 8% because lots of Americans are moving to Bozeman? Or because there is little demand for migrant labor on open range ranches? But in general, we can assume that at least some parts of these states split the difference between standard of living and cost of living well enough that they aren't hemmoraging citizens. Denver, for example, has a somewhat high cost of living - but makes up for it with lots of jobs, good weather, and an urban culture oriented towards health and outdoor recreation. Meanwhile, Texas cities are well known as auto-oriented hellholes with ungodly high temperatures and humidity. But they make up for it with a plethora of good paying jobs in the energy sector and a low cost of living.
I think you are headed in the right direction, and if you are excited to execute this plan then you should do it.
However, if you find that you aren't sticking to your plan, I suggest some modifications.
First, increase frequency to multiple times per day. To really make progress in your social skills, you need to build the habit and build up a lot of volume.
Second, decrease the difficulty. "Really pushing your comfort zone" feels like progress, because you have to push hard and you feel like you tried hard and were courageous. And I want to emphasize again - if you are consistently excited to go out and do this and you are meeting your goal, great! Keep doing what you are excited about. But for most people, this will end up like running a marathon by breaking it up into sprints. You try really hard and make some progress really fast, but then you get tired and burnt out and have to take a break before your next sprint. Most people, most of the time, find they make better progress in long term goals by applying a small, continuous amount of effort - running the marathon at a consistent, light jog.
So instead of making conversation with a random person in a random location, you could say "this week, I will have 100 conversations. Talking to the same person multiple times counts. Talking to friends counts. The interaction I have in the checkout line counts." Then you can look back at your week and say "wow, I really did talk to a lot of people, and none of the conversations were hard". And since you know that having the ability to strike up a conversation with a stranger is your eventual goal, but isn't an absolutely-must goal, you might simply see the opportunity to talk to a random stranger and take it, and find it to be easy in that particular moment as well. When working with things like social anxiety, taking the pressure off is often the key to making quick progress. Then, the next week, you can challenge yourself "I will talk to 100 people I've never talked to before." Then the next week "I will talk to 100 people I've never talked to before - service workers in their normal role at work don't count." Etc. Each week, you expand your comfort zone little by little, with every rep feeling easy peasy.
You should also know that if you are trying to apply this to real life, that you should probably go to therapy instead. Most people are reasonably honest and reasonably kind, and the best way to read people's minds is to just ask what they are thinking.
Edit for additional context:
These sorts of "psycological FYIs" are frequently posted around and upvoted for the same reason that the news leads every hour with murders and car crashes - because bad news catches attention, and you get a little dopamine hit when you hear it because your brain believes that by hearing about danger, it is now safer from danger. So we get all sorts of posts about what deceivers, or abusers, or narcissists, or whatever, do.
And these posts are particularly enticing to lemmy's demographic - terminally online, socially anxious autists who naturally have a hard time reading people. These sorts of posts come with an implicit promise - learn these tips, and you'll finally be safe from people, like the ones who bullied you in middle school.
But take a step back and consider the actual implementation of this advice. Literally all it is saying is "people who smile are untrustworthy". Which is quite possibly the worst advice if your goal is to successfully navigate the social landscape. This advice comes with far, far more noise than signal, because most people who are smiling most of the time are smiling simply because they are happy. These are the people you want to be around, because happy people are typically more open to meeting new people, being good friends, helping people in need, giving out useful advice, or having fun. This advice literally repels you from the people you should seek out the most.
And it is the same with all of these sorts of advice. People who cross their arms or turn slightly to the side or make poor eye contact or make excellent eye contact or whatever the fuck - people just do this shit all the time for ten million different reasons, with the least likely one being that they plan to rip you off selling you a used car or murder you in their basement. But what happens if you go out in the world looking for all these signals? Well then you will constantly be in your head, slow to speak, eyes darting around, fear and distrust written all over your face. And these are the things that will make the good, honest people around you look at you and get an uneasy feeling - not a thought, just a feeling. But enough of a feeling that they won't extend an invite to their back yard bbq next weekend. The person who will reach out to you with open arms, though? The con man. Because he can see it written all over your face: "I am an easy target".
Is Donald Trump a con man? Yes. But you already knew that. You didn't need some galaxy-brain psychoanalysis to realize that they guy who sells mail order steaks and runs shitty casinos is a shit bag, even before he became president. But Donald Trump doesn't live in your real life. He is not waiting on the street corner trying to sell you a corporate chain gym membership. Most people in your real life are not like Donald Trump - they are honest, kind, good hearted people that maybe don't have time for your bullshit right now, but who are happy to help if it isn't too much of an inconvenience to them. Most people who are like Donald Trump in real life tend to be easy to identify, in the same way Donald Trump is easy to identify. They aren't subtle. They aren't devious. Their game isn't to con everyone - it is to con the dumbest motherfucker in the room. It is obvious to literally everyone else, which is why this guy is usually sitting alone at the bar talking to the bartender - the only people willing to talk to this guy are the people who are getting paid to.
So stop looking for all these devious evil masterminds out to fleece you for every penny and then fuck you in the ass. They mostly don't exist, and the main way to attract them is to look like you have a history of social isolation. Just show up, meet people, get to know them, and assume the best. There is no way to completely protect yourself from bad people in the world - that's just life. But constantly worrying about every single person you meet all the time puts you in a cage without any Buffalo Bill copycat having to lift a finger.
I grew up in north Florida. Mosquitos can be mitigated on the property with larval traps and emptying standing water, plus mosquito netting. They also don't like me much - I think because I don't eat a lot of sugar.
Humidity and rain arent that bad if you get used to them. The problem most people have is that they constantly flip flop between heat and AC. When you live in the hot and humid full time, it just fades into the background.
Plus working 3 jobs to afford food and bills doesn’t leave much time or energy for nature hikes
Forest bathing, bro