Queer✨Anarchist Anti-fascist

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Cake day: November 14th, 2023

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  • That is way too many picks lmao. Nobody needs a set that big. Just a few tensioners, a rake, and a pair of single pin picks would be plenty.

    Think of how much inventory you could save if you ditch some things like the pick gun and the many rakes and weird single pin picks. Everything else is necessary though, especially the geode.


  • You don’t.

    I haven’t talked to parts of my family the same way I used to. We don’t seek each other out anymore, though some people who do still have connections means we will still see each other for big events like thanksgiving or by happenstance.

    Some of them probably think i’m an evil satan worshipping communist based on the last time we argued politics, which was either late 2015 or early to mid 2016, and I was your average slightly socialistic leftist who had just learned about Bernie’s policies for the first time.

    With the genocide going on, i feel even more isolated, since I have some family who are harris voters who support israel, and aren’t exactly happy about how vocal I am about palestine. Christian liberal zionism hasn’t been something I could talk people out of.


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    I haven’t had the same experience with jokes (my experience aligns more with the meme) but I always hear the most homoerotic comments from the straights.

    I’m closeted to one group of friends, and i openly say gay shit because it’s funny and I can get away with it and have only been questioned once. But good lord can some of the straight people in that group effortlessly say gayer shit than me.








  • You really shouldn’t fight depression solo. We’re social creatures. Trained therapists aren’t the only people who can help you, even a trusted friend or a random stranger in a free support group can do wonders.

    Local support groups probably exist in your area. Sometimes they aren’t very visible, and being depressed certainly won’t help you find it.

    I didn’t know about any in my area, since when I’m depressed I’m unable to look for those groups, and when I’m fine, i have no need to look. But after joining a local mutual aid board, i found out about quite a few resources that were fully free or extremely cheap (less than $50 us) when others asked for them.

    If you are queer, a lot of queer support groups often have resources to help you out.

    As for how I treated mine, exercise and hiking, finding scenic areas, avoiding alcohol (which i was bad at), and trying to live more “intentionally” and not getting into patterns that left me feeling hollow. For example, i tried spending less time gaming, and substituted that time with reading, since that made me feel less like I was wasting time and my life. I also tried learning to cook, since having good meals was great, and not constantly eating shit from a local fast food joint helped me stop rapidly gaining weight, which was certainly making things worse.

    I also have a trusted friend who i talked to about some of my problems, and he helped me get through the worst parts. This was probably the most important part, and it got me on the path to getting out of that depressive episode.



  • My friend went to ireland with some of his mates from uni, and one of them ordered an irish car bomb on the first night. The bartender was cool with it and asked if they serve “school shooters” in the states.

    They were all incredulous, and the bartender comes back with the car bomb. He later comes back apologizing profusely because he thought he crossed the line, but they told him it was fine they were just caught completely off guard by that.

    They went to that bar many more times.


  • I remembered about 60% and I knew the general format of the password. It was about 30-40 characters in length so it was far from short. I couldn’t remember one of the words, the numbers, or the symbols, nor could I remember the order of the numbers and symbols since I diverted from the pattern I used to use due to the significance of the password.

    I made a custom dictionary, and used john with a custom generator to make it fit the possible format of my password so that is why it was so fast. Had I not done that, it probably would have been feasible. It was also an older less secure luks partition so that helped a ton, and the fact I had a mediocre gpu (2070max-q) was the icing on the cake.

    I intentionally keep no copies of my encrypted drive passwords so I was fucked if I couldn’t remember the password.




  • I’ve never been able to sharpen them. But I can sharpen my metal knives.

    I highly recommend carbon steel Japanese knives. They are absurdly sharp and hold their edge for a long while. They can shatter like this sometimes, though a lot less dramatically, and usually after being dropped. They also need to be treated similar to cast iron, since they can rust if not cared for. Get one with a stainless cladding so you can just sharpen your knife if you accidentally let the blade rust.

    Granted, I do a ton of volunteer work that involves a lot of food prep, so I need a knife that is sharp, holds an edge, and chan be sharpened as needed. I hate buying knives that will eventually need to be tossed because I can’t sharpen them. I love my Nakiri and Kiritsuke so much, can’t recommend japanese knives enough.