TitanLaGrange @ TitanLaGrange @lemmy.world

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National parks are great, but also look for national forests and grasslands, state parks and forests, conservation areas, and BLM land.

National forests/grasslands are my favorite because they are free and well documented. Unfortunately I live in the midwest, so it's a long-ass drive to the nearest ones, so for short trips I'm usually going to state-owned facilities (also great, but usually not as big or free to use).

As a hobby you can usually practice at home and then take on the road, try some stargazing and sky photography! With a little work most modern phones can do pretty fun astrophotography (not amazing, but interesting enough to make for some fun times, and maybe of interest if you like lenses and shit).

optometry school ... focus on the things

heh.

Let's see... Woodworking, car repair/restoration, home improvement (from redecoration to remodels), kayaking, camping, mild 4x4 offroad stuff, hiking, latte art, playing a banjo very poorly, 3D printing, coding for microcontrollers, coding dumb games, gardening, making my garage shop nicer, book binding, painting (as in walls, not that artistic stuff), making bread, diagraming the nightmare of 100-year-old wiring in my house (planning a rewire), occasional motorcycle rides. Probably some other things I've forgotten about.

If you'll have free time for a while still you could maybe find an easy job to do. If you don't really need the income there are a lot of things that can be fun.

Coffee shops can be pretty cool, depending on the business there are some interesting things to learn, and it's generally low-pressure work if you're not a complete idiot.

If you like cats and dogs animal shelters usually are happy to have volunteers. You'd probably be cleaning up shit a lot of the time, but that's not hard and you can balance it by giving the critters much-needed and appreciated attention. You can also volunteer to do things like bottle-feeding baby animals, that tends to take a lot of time so shelters are frequently looking for volunteers.

Thanks for that. I've been kinda-sorta keeping an eye out for a good solution for this. My house has three main panels (it's set up for subletting) so solutions like Sense won't work well, plus I don't want it to be dependent on a cloud service. I'll check out this product.

humans must’ve walked around naked before covering up for some period of time, right?

Some still do, but they tend to wear some kind of genitalia covering.

Contemporary humans have disproportionately large penises compared to many other animals. Perhaps when we started evolving larger penises we co-evolved small dick jokes ("I was in the pond!"), leading to habitual use of various types of penis-hiding clothing.

I think of an ambitious person as being one who is strongly committed to achieving a very difficult goal with a high risk of failure, usually something that will require near-daily effort for at least a few years, possibly decades.

To me it's the level of challenge that the goal presents to the person attempting it that matters, it doesn't have to be something with global or historical significance.

Yep, I don't think badly of Google mostly because I don't think of them at all. While I was deleting my Reddit account a decided I'd try moving off of big tech companies products as much as practical and even after almost 20 years with GMail as my primary mail host I just don't have anything else left in their ecosystem. Over the years I've used a lot of their products, but they kept killing them off (Picasa, Google+, Code, Reader, various chat clients), so I've found mostly self-hosted alternatives.

I guess they're still making money hand-over-fist so whatever they're doing it must work for them, but none of it is useful for me.

As late Gen X I grew up without internet, and my parents both grew up on rural farms and were quite frugal, so we didn't have cable TV, air conditioning, or much of anything else.

I spent a lot of time reading (fiction and encyclopedias), bicycling, building tree forts in the woods, snow forts, swimming (city pool or nearby creek that was probably full of mildly toxic runoff), building stuff (lots of Lego creations), etc. There were arcades, but it took like two hours on the bus to get there and then you need money to play, so that kind of sucked. We almost never had any money, so we very rarely did anything that wasn't free. Spent a lot of time at the local library in the summer (probably read half of the scifi/fantasy section by the time I got out of high school).

About once a month on a Friday night we'd go to the local video rental store and rent a couple of VHS movies and a VCR so we could watch a movie. Eventually they also offered rentals of a NES machine, so we could play a video game at home.

We always had a home computer though, so sometimes I'd play simple games on the computer. Then when I got bored with the games (which didn't take very long since they were all free stuff from the early days of computers) I'd go through the source code for them to learn to make my own. From about middle school on I spent a lot of time programming (with a few sample programs and lots of time as my only resources).

That would probably be a good focus for a Lemmy instance if someone was looking to run a good-sized one.

Indeed. I like 'Earthporn' too, but I think it should be all nature pictures that look like genitalia and suchlike. Rocks or trees that look like penises for example.

Hey! It took nature and generations of farmers and gardeners to create those beans!

What you are describing about Twitter wasn't my experience with it at all. I just followed my friends, interesting people I met at events, etc. I wasn't looking to be connected to influencers or whatever was the popular chatter of the moment, and I freely used the block feature to filter out people who posted stuff I wasn't interested in. It worked just fine like that. Decent experience (too shallow for my preference, due to the nature of the platform, but not unpleasant).

I feel like most social media platforms are, to a large extent, what you make of them. Like my Facebook feed is pretty nice. It's about 60% family and friends that I like, 20% interest groups (kayaking and hiking mostly), and 20% ads for stuff I'm interested in (mostly authors right now). There's none of the toxic bullshit that a lot of people complain about.

So yeah, I agree with the 'follow people you are interested in' advice, but that's not unique to Mastodon or Lemmy or whatever.

You can think of 'cis' and 'trans' as meaning roughly 'this side' and 'other side'.

In a gender context the 'sides' are male and female and the items are physical gender and mental gender. If both genders are on the same side, both on 'this side', that's 'cis'. If they are different, one 'this side', one 'other side', that's 'trans'.

So, if the answer is "I am cis/trans" the question is "Is your mental gender the same as your physical gender?" "I am cis" then means "My mental gender is the same as my physical gender" and "I am trans" means "My mental gender is not the same as (or maybe 'is opposite') my physical gender".

Note that 'physical gender' is not always clear. Some people are born with ambiguous genitalia and may be surgically altered to make their genitalia more closely resemble the commonly recognized pattern for 'male' or 'female', and some may be left as-is. In some cases this can be a reason for a trans gender identity.

Not me. I like text. I don't want icons, avatars, banners, image backgrounds, etc. All text, all the time.

I appreciate that others like those things, so I want the system to support them, but I want the option to remove all that stuff for my view, because it isn't important or useful to me.