/hobby/ - Hobby

Trying to grow a secure source of food that can't be stolen, destroyed, embargoed or poisoned. Identified the best option is growing root vegetables in unmaintained public land, like forests.

Buying food from the market leaves you at the mercy of dystopian food monopoly, who have introduced absurd measures like cashless only or ID required. Getting food from charity leaves you with no choice of food, and highly rationed distribution. Growing food on your own land, solves the food choice, supply and cash issue, but incurs both tax cost and risk of eminent domain taking the land away before the crops are harvested. These are all really bad options for food security.

Therefore the best option is growing food on public land, which would solve all these issues including eliminating tax and property seizure. Just have to choose a good, remote location, and hide the crop among other plants nearby. A forest, rural park, road or abandoned property should be a good place.

The best type of crop for this location should be a perennial, drought-proof root vegetable like potato, since there is no watering except rainfall. A perennial will keep growing year after year without maintenance or needing to buy new seeds, and a root crop would be well hidden, capable of fully regrowing even if the plant is cut down. A root crop is also fairly resistant to attempts to poison. Just dig a hole, plant the potato and leave for a few months until harvest.

It should easily be possible to grow enough potatoes to feed yourself and others, indefinitely for free. Worst case scenario is someone cuts the plants down, but it's not really hard to plant more at other locations.

Any suggestions on site locations or alternate crops?

This show has everything. It's very luigipilled and burgerpunk. It has the zeitgeist. Very nice. Did enjoy. Would recommend. It's like Breaking Bad and Fear and Loathing meets Akira and Paprika.

Never lend money to friends, family, or significant others. If someone asks, just say you’re broke blame a credit card bill or another excuse.
On Relationships and Risks

If you’re debating whether to "wrap it," think carefully. Even if she claims to be on the pill, mistakes happen—and 18 years of child support is no joke. That money won’t just go to the kid; it’ll fund her nails, hair, vacations, and car payments while you’re left with no say.
On College

>Get In, Get Out: Pick a practical, high-paying major early and stick with it. No indecision research careers, choose one you can tolerate (or like), and graduate in 3–4 years max. Dragging it out wastes time and money.

>Speed Matters: Graduating at 21–23 with a master’s puts you years ahead in salary, seniority, and benefits (401k, health insurance, etc.). The longer you take, the more debt you’ll rack up and the higher the chances of bad decisions (like accidental pregnancies or failing classes).

>Live at Home: Stay with your parents during college if possible. Avoid working; focus on studying, lifting, and having fun. You’ll graduate with far less debt.

If You Skip College

No degree? Get a job and work hard. Plenty of non-grads (e.g., construction workers) outearn art history majors working at Starbucks. But stats show grads usually earn more over time—so if you go, do it smartly.
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Hes the bane of NPCs and the establishment. He single handledly kept the value of mythology, supernatural and the paranormal alive during the peak years of modernism and post modernism. Academics, modern Europeans, and experts have been trying to destroy him ever since.

But the establishment is in decline. They have to watch as all their worthless ideas (like new-atheism, and moral relativism) all fall into the waste bin of history while Jungs ideas get stronger and stronger.

Jung's major beliefs is that a primary goal of every human is/ought to be the process of individuation (the processing of becoming a self)–which he wrote on the backdrop of rising collectivistic pressures via shifting global geopolitics. For Jung, there is a distinction between ego and self, where ego is a narrow band of consciousness that exists primarily in a space of tension between unconscious factors (which includes shadow) and social presentation (persona).

He further believed that people share a collective unconscious, which is that we inherit cultural motifs and symbols that then get continuously represented across different cultures and time; however, they manifest in a way relative to the culture of the time. So, 'Hero' may be an archetype, meaning stories involving heroes transcend cultures and time, but 'Batman' is a specific manifestation that emerged in American culture in the past century.

One archetype then is the 'shadow', which represents unconscious elements that are in conflict with our ego ideal (how we think we should behave or be–especially in front of others). These can include unfulfilled desires, fears, perceived weaknesses, shame-inducing idiosyncrasies, etc. The idea is that the 'self' in the Jungian conceptualization involves actively seeking these archetypes out via either psychological analysis or a process Jung calls Active Imagination. In either case, the general idea is to actively confront these aspects of our unconscious and integrate the awareness–and the process by which the awareness was obtained, into our conscious understanding of self.

Jung's ideas overlap with the likes of Jacques Vallee in terms of the intersection of psychological concepts and the mystical. Myth and folklore were of prominent sources of information in Jung's formation of his ideas; however, there is an impact of poor translation and creative liberties taken in sources Jung used unwittingly.

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So you might be looking at the name of this thread and thinking Language learning as a hobby? Why yes, this thread is to be dedicated to those that are learning a new language as a hobby.

Not only this but to provide resources for those that wanna get help with their progress and just talk about their language learning journey.

Any puroresu fans here?
Puroresu is Japanese pro-wrestling. I realize there's a /wooo/ thread but puroresu is quite different than WWE or pro-wrestling you might encounter here in the US. It strives for a more sports-like feel and tells stories in the ring rather than people talking at each other or doing stupid antics. It's still fake (and people watching know it's fake), but it tends to be faster and harder hitting. It's also a lot less commercialized - you pay to watch online and there aren't any commercials.
The top two puroresu companies in Japan right now are New Japan Pro-Wrestling and its sister company STARDOM (which is women's wrestling). For my money, STARDOM is actually the best pro-wrestling company in the world to watch right now, as it tells the best stories, has the most compelling talents, and puts on consistently entertaining shows.
The main picrel is Zack Sabre Jr., who is the World Heavyweight Champion of New Japan. He's British. I chose him because he's also an outspoken socialist. The other picrel is Saya Kamitani, the World of Stardom Champion and *the* best person in all of pro-wrestling to watch at the moment.

Zack Sabre Jr. vs Bryan Danielson
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9gktyw

Saya Kamitani vs Tam Nakano
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9im4so

A few other favorite (modern) matches of mine:
Utami Hayashishita vs Syuri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CvvdjXWPvY

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So i remember a while back, while i was lurking, that we had a language learning thread here too.

Personally i think it is better suited in /edu/ but i understand how it is a hobby for some folk too, so here is the thread.

https://leftypol.org/edu/res/25414.html

Hey all, I was curious at to what you guys think about the SCP Foundation shared universe.

So I know pretty much nothing about working on cars because I'm a fag, the most I've ever done is change a tire. But the brake light came on the dashboard in my Toyota Highlander a few days ago and I took it to a brake shop who did a free inspection but quoted me $1500 for a brake job, so I decided to finally learn how to do this shit myself. The mechanic told me the rotors needs replacing but I looked at them and they seem perfectly fine to me and I haven't felt any wobbling or anything when braking, so I think it just needs new pads and brake fluid. I watched a couple of Youtube videos on how to change brake pads and brake fluid and I ordered a set of brake pads for my car from RockAuto for about $50 and a brake bleed kit from Amazon for $20 and I bought a quart of DOT3 brake fluid from a local Dollar General for $10. I have sets of metric wrenches and sockets from working on bicycles years ago and my neighbor has a floorjack and jackstands I can borrow so I think I have everything I need. I know to not let air bubbles into the brake line and to not put any stress on the brake line when taking off the caliper, is there anything else I should know? I don't want to screw this up and end up killing myself driving my car later.

Was she a Stalinist? She sure as hell never did anything wrong.