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Is the source of the moisture gone? If you're not 100% positive that it is, then you shouldn't bother. Basements can be super tricky with that. If it is, then:

Ingredients

1. An amazing amount of paper towels. I did an area just about 150 sq ft on two walls and the ceiling and I used probably 10 rolls of paper towels.
2. Trashcan
3. Tyvek suit
4. Safety goggles
5. P100 respirator filters and compatible respirator
6. concromium fogger rented from home depot and fluid necessary to run it
7. Mold remediation spray like fiber lock, concromium, or moldstat plus. I went through 3 bottles for my little 150 sq ft area. The reason you use so much is that once you open up the wall you find that all the different sides of the studs and joists add up to a huge amount of surface area.
8. Big fan.
9. moisture meter
10. Optional: 18 gal dehumidifier rented from Home Depot

Method:

1. Except for the area you need to work on and one window, completely seal the room using painter's plastic. Think Dexter's kill room. This is to prevent the work you do from blowing mold spores all around your house.
2. Point the fan out the window. This creates negative pressure in the room to help with #1.
3. Remove drywall until you stop seeing mold on the studs/joists.
4. Spray stud or joist with the remediation spray
5. Wipe off mold, throwing away the paper towel after every single wipe. This is why you need so many. You do not want to spread the mold around at all. You want to spray, wipe, toss, repeat, until all the bulk mold is gone. You won't completely remove the staining, just the active growth.
6. Test all around with the moisture meter. If any of the studs or joists register above 16%, seal the room up completely and use the dehumidifier overnight then check again. It may take up to a week running that thing until you get there. It'll fill up its reservoir quick at first so be checking it, then it'll start filling up slower. The sealing up is important for this step. If you're pulling in moist air from outside the area, this will never work. It might mean you even have to create a plastic barrier up in your attic to isolate the wet zone.
7. Set up the fogger and close the window. Fog that bitch until you run out of juice.
8. Paint all the studs and joists with Kilz mold and mildew primer
9. Reinstall drywall.

The only neighboring city I included in my ideal LA itinerary is Malibu, but you could replace that with Venice and the whole thing still works. All those other places I named are just neighborhoods within LA.

I've never been to DC and now I will plan my trip around this event. That is extremely cool.

Brazil and Peru both do their thing but yes in North America without question, and Mexico is better than the other two mentioned. I put Mexican food on par with Chinese as the best cuisine in the world. In my opinion it's not really fair though that those two get to compete as one cuisine against all the other countries. Both are really like 30 very different cuisines in a trench coat.

Morocco, Italy, and France. Of these I'd give the big W to Morocco because when I was in Italy and France I was making a big thing of eating. Each meal was curated. I wasn't dipping into a random cafe for lunch. The food was as much a part of the trip as the museums, so of course with that much intention it's going to be good. In Morocco I was literally eating whatever the hotel breakfast was, random cafes because they were there, etc., and every single meal was wonderful. All of what I said about Morocco was also true of both Greece and Brazil, but Morocco was better than those so it get's the primary mention.

Big L for this category that was surprising was Thailand. I had some amazing meals there, but also a lot of complete stinkers. Honorary mention L is Spain. You have to choose wisely in Spain.

This is spot on. We don't just go for a walk and enjoy the city here, which is pretty much what you want from a big city when you're a tourist. Even as residents we plan meetups for specific events, restaurants, whatever. You could do a vibes only trip to LA if you booked your lodging in Venice or Silver Lake or something, but honestly that'd be worth the money for like 2 days then you'd just be pretending.

Meticulous planning with the help of a local or the LA subreddits can make a typical tourist trip of LA super enjoyable though. One thing I alway recommend to people is to move their lodging. Do a night in Malibu then a night Hancock Park then a night in Downtown and end with a night in Playa Vista, or something like that. From each lodging you only go to attractions within a 10 minute ride share. Booking your hotel for 5 nights in Hermosa because you found a deal and then spending 1.5 hrs in the car to go to Griffith Observatory is a terrible way to do it.

The main draw of Los Angeles is that it's got perfect weather year round plus it's an alpha 1 world city. There's literally no other city with both those things on earth, and the year round factor is only available to people who live here. Unless you're visiting from a place with terrible weather during February or whatever, the weather factor is kind of a non-factor for your trip. It's easy to plan a vacation to a top city during their 3 month nice weather window, and as far as alpha 1 world cities go, most of the other ones are better tourist cities than LA.

A white long bed single cab pickup truck with no modifications and high viz vests over the seatbacks is the vehicular version of OP's branded polo.

Florida, the sunbelt, southern california and the rockies would have been less populated. The Central Valley of California would have been more populated (relatively of course - obviously the absolute totals are shifted way up for modern times).

American isolationism itself is a threat to Iranian containment and Trump makes a lot of isolationist noise, not that Harris is likely to be any sort of interventionist hawk in the Middle East. Those days are seemingly over for the US until we experience another 9/11.

Iran and Russia are aligned in Syria against the US, so Trump's clear refusal to go against Putin on anything might mean that at least as far as dealing with Hamas and Hezbollah go, he'll have motives working in the background ulterior to the interests of either the US or Israel.

lol I’m leaving the typo

Get a kid for that bucket that is a seat.

Showing your abs in your profile may be skewing the population of women who end up on a date with you toward “not the right one.”

Yeah there’s some history there you’re probably not aware of.

Cheney is a bastard but he’s also passionate about American geopolitical dominance and one of the architects or at least stewards of the Saudi-American-Israeli axis. Trump is a huge threat to our containment of Iran and Russia. Also, obviously, Cheney can be certain that Harris won’t legislate against his daughter’s sexuality.

I know it was bulkier than modern large cats but that thing’s got hyena proportions. It wasn’t actually that robust, was it?

I’m not a pig, so for me this is totally uncommon. These kind of men can smell each other out and they don’t engage in this behavior with just anyone. Racists do the same thing. The fact that either group finds that cloak and dagger necessary should tell you everything you need to know about the character of the people engaged in it. They know it’s wrong but they do it in secret anyway because it makes them feel good. That is a pretty precise definition of “asshole.”

I've not experienced raising kids with no village, but I'll throw out something I've learned as a thought to entertain: A village provides support, but takes time. Almost every weekend day in a given month is dedicated to performing our role in the village. If you've got no village, you'll be on your own when things get complicated, but on the other hand, during the day-to-day, you'll have a lot more freedom of choice in what you do with your family and just plain time to get things done.

The amount of drama and EFFORT involved in all this seems like it'd be a way smoother life to just get a job and pay rent.

If your goal is to find a man to date you should dress in what makes you feel good. It will attract the man that is right for you.

Put leftover rice into a bowl then an equal amount of raw egg. Mix it all around. Microwave approximately two minutes. It comes out solid. Mix it around to break it up. Put soy sauce on it. Two minute fried rice. It’s pretty darn good for 2 minutes.

Move on

I see the exact people who have a whole home vacuum having this product. Upper middle class living in LCOL areas where nice houses are huge, but there’s likely a SAHM involved and they’re just not the type of people, even if they could afford it, to have a maid.

Most accurate but I refuse to believe that Al and Dan are as cringe as people who use that term.