I don't use pesticides, but when my dogs start coming inside with ticks, I spray flea and tick killer in their fenced area. I imagine others probably do the same.
My 9 year old laptop is currently sitting in two pieces... But only because I wanted to pull the hard drive out for easier transferring of old files I wanted to keep.
When I get back to the main part, I'll be removing 90% of the apps on it, doing everything I can to make it run better, and it will be my hobby shop computer. It was going back and forth between my game room and the garage where I kept my lasers and printers.
If and when it finally bites the dust, it will be given a place of honor amongst the modern tech. Like a transparent top coffee table with all the parts disassembled and arranged inside.
"sure, the forest I played in as a kid is silent, the trees are dying, insects are sparse, we go back and forth between buried in 10ft of snow and heat wave drought inside a month, the river is low enough that it exposed carvings of 1,000 year old famine warnings, but we keep getting flooded every year with once in a lifetime storms, but there's NO EVIDENCE of climate change and I can prove it because [politician/company] said so"
I want a shitty fan trailer where it starts with someone saying "Somehow Plagueis returned..." where all we ever see is the tall hooded silhouette that never speaks
Then at the end, the hood pulls back, head still in silhouette, but a very.... Distinct head appears, and in a slightly deeper than normal voice, we hear "Meesa back..." as glowing yellow eyes open up.
Well you're at a college. If you want people to follow rules, be more specific, or don't get pissed when they follow the stated rules but you feel like the rules should include something else.
If the concern is liability, then don't just say "don't skateboard" and get mad when people bike through the area. You said no skateboards. This is not a skateboard. Rules=followed.
If anyone feels like chirping in with "you know what they meant" that really doesn't matter. Not to me, not to people who don't understand that sort of thing, not to courts.
Besides, I feel like clarity is some thing you should strive for at a facility for higher education.
In almost every case, it's because the entity that owns it doesn't actually have to use it daily, because then you know they'd fight to get whatever safety measures they can cram into it.
Last city I lived in had a new intersection put in with a 2 way stop (only one of the roads stops, and you have to yield to main road traffic)
After tons of minor accidents and altercations arising from disgruntled people having to swerve or slam on brakes, the city out out a statement saying basically they've done studies and it's safer than other intersections so nothing will be done to it.
Two or three years go by and one of the city council people moved and now has to use that intersection.
Within a month it had stoplights installed without a word.
Could be a coincidence. Maybe they even had been planning that for the entire two or three years.
But I personally believe nobody gave a shit until an "important" person (you know, that high-stake, much coveted small town council seat) had to use the intersection.
"Apple assures users new iPhone with neural implant won't take over their mind while asleep to be used for data collection and ads placed in dreams"
"Glock assures customers it's new model of handgun'definitely will not shoot backwards at the person firing it', more at 11"
Well if I wasn't 100% sure that's exactly what they do before, I am now.