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So....I guess it kinda seems like a .gif vs .gif sorta situation, we'll never come to a consensus, there will forever be disparate camps chuckling under their breath at all the "idiots" that can't even pronounce SearXNG right...the fools.....

Well, guess I'll sleep on it and join a camp some day.... le sigh

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Fuck! I'd completely forgotten about that! What a fucking mongrel...

SearXNG

Always wondered how the fuck I'm supposed to say that.

Seeks'nn'jnn?
Sur X N G?
Search engine?

Righto, pop that on the list. Thanks 👍

If it's freezable, put it in. Even a "vacuum pack" bag unless it's sealed perfectly, like both ends are heat sealed, can let the fuckers out. Freeze anything you want to keep for as long as possible. Minimum 48 hrs. Everything else gets gassed repeatedly, or disposed of. Kill it with fire if you can do so without being arrested or accidentally killing someone.

work computer

So. Not to freak you out. But they totally hang out inside electronics.

I would contact your work's IT, if it's your employer's, and ask them if they have a protocol for bedbugs. If the landlord is willing to fumigate, the computer can be damaged by the chemicals used. So you still need to get in touch with IT.

Get that. Could still be held liable for back rent. Just don't want you to get fucked over because your landlord is a slumlord. Do what you need to do. But don't fuck over tomorrow you while doing it.

Sorry you're going through this. Such a nightmare. Unironically sending you good outcome vibes.

In a reply to OP I mentioned having grown up in an area that was essentially a bedbug hotspot. Gassed 3 times if you're lucky.

If you're willing to just cut everything and GTFO, can stick a few sets of clothes in a bag and into the freezer for preferably 48hrs+, shoes too. While you wait, contact the city, inform them you are in an infested house. Bag everything up and most cities have a dedicated disposal team.

When you've sorted all the stuff and put it where disposal can get it take your sealed bag of freezer clothes directly out of the house to somewhere with no carpet, vinyl flooring or concrete, and no furniture nearby. Place the freezer bag away from all walls, stand well away from it and strip everything. All of what you take of goes into a different bag to be disposed of. If you have someone you're comfortable being naked around do this with a buddy, check eachother for bedbugs, get dressed. Bring the infested bag to the disposal pile. That bag. Does. Not. Touch. Your. Clothes. Sleeves rolled up, bag at arms length. Get it on the pile but don't get close.

Bounce. Spend the next 6 months being paranoid. Or years.

They're right. A week is 6 days, 23 hours, and 45 minutes longer than it takes to get yourself and any luggage or boxes, bags, purses, shoes with a strap that's fabric on fabric. If it's a proper bedbug infestation, sitting on anything. Putting your shoes next to the wall or in a closet on the floor. Putting a bag on the floor. They're small, easily visible when you know where to look, but if you're not specifically looking for them, and you go into an infested home/hotel/restaurant/shop, now you almost certainly have them on you and/or your stuff. They'll hang out until you put whatever they're on down, or sometimes just fall off. And now wherever they jump ship gets infested too.

Edit: Sorry, Trauma response. Metro area I grew up in had/has a bedbug epidemic. Multiple times living in infested apartments, or going to a friend's I haven't seen in awhile then getting a call a few days later saying they found a bunch of bedbugs and having to purge everything. shudders

If the landlord doesn't cooperate, maybe you can tell them you'll call pest control yourself and deduct the amount from the rent you owe... no idea how well that would go legally speaking, but maybe it'll allow you some negotiating leverage. (obligatory IANAL)

Not usually kosher. Withholding rent isn't typically. Many places have a Landlord/Tenant regulatory body. And in a situation like this, you would usually say to your landlord something along the lines of:

It's your responsibility as the landlord to deal with pests. Since you continue to refuse, I'm forced to go through XYZ Regulatory Board.

Start whatever system that regulator has to deal with landlords not keeping on top of their obligations. If paying for and withholding rent is what's allowed, it's better that you have contacted the organisation responsible for enforcement of rental laws. If just withholding rent is what's allowed, said organisation will often be a "neutral" 3rd party and hold the money due to the landlord in escrow until they do whatever they are supposed to.

Just withholding rent is grounds for eviction almost everywhere. Do not withhold rent as the first step.

If you withhold rent without going through the proper systems you will often get a "you were right, but you didn't do it right, so you still have to get out" from the regulator when they enforce what is actually a legal eviction.

Significantly more.

I’m sure the synthetic oilly shit has a wonderful reaction with that unprotected stainless steel.

Not to mention that depending on force of the throw, and precise angle of the impact of cheese slice, the thing could start falling apart.

..... which now I think about it, also explains the:

“hey police, someone threw cheese at my car, I’m in fear for my life.”