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I once pirated a book because I didn't want to get it from another room.

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[-] Chewbaccabra@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago

I dunno if laziest but my landlord certainly thought so. I had bedbugs and there's so much crap you have to do prep for the extermination like remove all your clothes and wash them three times on hot, flip through all your books to check for them, the list was ridiculous. I'm way too lazy for that so I paid the extra $600 out of pocket for the "good" treatment where they just super heat your entire home to kill them and all you have to do is remove things that might melt or explode.

Thankfully the exterminators found the illegal fireworks I had hidden and forgotten about, removed them, and didn't say anything to the landlord.

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The heat treatment was the only thing that worked when I had to deal with those little fuckers. I'm sorry you had to deal with them, but I'm glad they're gone now. Those things aren't just physically irritating, they fuck with your head.

[-] Chewbaccabra@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Last part of last sentence absolutely. Reminded me of when I moved to sleeping on the couch while waiting for the extermination day. While doing couch life I read that bed bugs are attracted to carbon dioxide so breathing will pull them toward you anyway. There is no escape.

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 6 points 3 days ago

How hot does your room get in such a process?

[-] Chewbaccabra@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

55 C or thereabouts. I was at work when they did it. When I came home it felt like I'd left the heat on full blast all day

[-] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yea that's what we did at a public library I worked at whenever a bed bug or signs of it were spotted. All the books in the same space were considered contaminated and we put them all in a special heater.

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago

Damn, that's enough to deform PLA 3d prints

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Illegal fireworks? is that code for explosives?

I did a quick check and looks like there are two categories of fireworks above what regular people can freely buy in a store...

https://eclatsetincelants.fr/blog/reglementation-feux-artifice-france

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Fireworks are explosives by definition so yes

[-] Chewbaccabra@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Pretty much everything is illegal here except maybe like sparklers and snakes. I only had pretty tame stuff like Roman candles I bought a county over from mine. Lotta wildfires here.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Depending on location they can all be illegal. Firecrackers specifically are illegal in my region, IIRC.

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