I would hope that by the time something like this launched to the general public, it would be a service rather than an expected purchase. Like self-driving-flying taxis.
It doesn’t make sense to have everyone owning their own when they will probably be largely autonomous to avoid issues with individuals driving them (not that everyone owning a car makes sense either, but I digress), so the maintenance shouldn’t be an issue either.
Easily the rest of your life!
I have this problem, but width only, not overall size.
I just wear men’s shoes, and even those are wicked hard to find. There isn’t really a category of shoes for my size (not big enough overall for drag shoes to be right, but far too wide for normally sized women’s shoes - I wear 6-8 [brand dependent] 4EW in men’s) and I’m not willing to spend a fortune on shoes to have cute custom ones made, so men’s shoes and sandals are my options. Boring.
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I haven’t had quite that interaction, but I’m equally blasé about it. It’s literally just part of life.
“In the past year have you had thoughts of suicide?”
broad gesture if you haven’t you probably aren’t paying attention… but I’m apathetic, not active. Not that it would matter because when I was actively suicidal it took 6 fucking months to be seen by you chucklefucks…
They always get that concerned face and I have to reassure -them-… like no it’s fine this is just normal for me…? I live with chronic pain, I live with chronic poor-ness, it’s just chronic life (and not the fun drug kind, even). I’m not into it, but I’m not actively thinking about doing anything about it, either. Doesn’t mean I want to be resuscitated if shit happens, tho… and I don’t… (any more chronic issues would be probably one too many, and then I’d get active…) I even know exactly what probably painless method I’d go with, because suffering is dumb. And it’s something I can act on quite literally any time I want with zero effort on my part other than going to the store, so that I’m still here is a great sign!
My current doc (Va changes my doctors every couple years) was the absolute first, out of dozens of people I’ve told that to, who was like “ummm… that’s actively bad… so what is your mental health plan? (Told her I don’t have one, other than suck it up) I’m going to give you an open-ended referral to some outside groups who may be more able to help you, especially on short notice… I get why you don’t trust our mental health… so if you ever want that, just send me a message and I’ll put in the referral for you. Also here’s a list of non-profits that aren’t directly affiliated who may be better suited to help you…”
Fwiw, whatever it is in your life that causes these things, I hope they stay at or below active-planning level. If you ever want someone totally random to vent to, my DMs are open, and I’ll reply with commiseration rather than gaslighting you about things not being that bad, because… well I get how pointless that would be 😜
I had a pantry moth infestation as a result of inheriting birds. No matter what you do if you buy seed you will get moths again and again. It was pretty fucking bad at its worst… at night I would spray a paper plate with cooking spray and just swat them down with it next to the light. Highly effective.
But then I stumbled across trichogramma wasps. And it was literally life changing.
They are stingless, self-fertile (all female due to a bacterial infection, if you give them antibiotics they produce males again!), egg parasitic wasps, about the size of a grain of sand. They lay their eggs inside the host species eggs and their young consume the host egg. Once they hatch you never see them again. Tiny dots. You order them 15k or so at a time (depending on website and country probably? but they should be pretty widely available) and if you release them outside as intended, they kill off 95% of the target species (they prefer what they hatch from, which is usually moth eggs, but they can parasitize tons of pest insects). Indoors they can wipe out pest eggs. Then they die off because they are obligate egg parasites. No host eggs, no more wasps.
You need to release them for several waves to be sure, due to moth life cycles taking many months to complete, but they are cheap af (I paid $12 USD/15,000, ordered them every 3 months for 1.5 yrs, zero moths after) Zero work, and no chemicals.
I tell everyone who has birds about them now. I gifted the local bird rescue a 2-year delivery schedule, and made sure to tell everyone about it so they could pass the info along to any adoptees who might be turned off by the moth problem down the line and decide against adopting the bird(s)