What’s something you love, and love describing or explaining to people who are new to that interest, hobby, or activity?
Government currency inflation, gold, crypto, privacy and data sovereignty/self-hosting.
I love map-making. Usually, fantasy maps. ill often spend hours a night working on a project, I don’t sell them or put them on social media or have some kind of fantasy world I’m making them for, I just think they’re neat.
dog training, all day every day.
I’ll take advantage, if you don’t mind. I need help specifically with obedience training.
I adopted my dog from the local rescue last year. She’s a two year old mixed breed, I’m thinking a rottweiler/bernese x golden retriever. As far as I can tell she’s had no formal training.
She’s an absolute doll and I love her to bits, but she’s as stubborn as a mule and when she’s committed to disobedience I can’t get her to focus on me. Do you have any tips on routines I could try with her, or any resources I could look at?
if she’s not paying attention to you, she’s telling you the distractions, duration, or distance are too much. i would start by using the name game in a quiet setting like your living room or whichever room in your home is most comfortable for her.
toss a treat on the ground right in front of you, let her eat it, and then say her name. wait until she looks at you, then mark the movement of her turning to look at you (some people use a clicker, some people use a marker-word like “yes!”), drop another treat, say her name, and wait for her to look at you again. the most important thing here is the timing. as soon as her eyes start to move in your direction, that’s what you want to mark.
once she’s got that down, you can start adding distractions. start very small. toss the treat a little further away from you at first, then maybe move to the other side of the room. wow! new place! new things to look at! we call this “proofing” the behavior. then you can move to another room. if she’s not reliably giving you the behavior you ask for, go back a step. she should be succeeding about 90% of the time before you move on.
these sessions should be short (5-10 minutes tops) and preferably multiple times a day. i typically train 3-4x a day on various skills, depending on what my goals are for any given dog. if she’s not responding to the treats, get better treats. my dogs tend to love string cheese and hotdogs the most, but every dog is going to be different.
here’s some fundamentals on clicker training which are really useful if it’s a new concept to you: https://www.clickertraining.com/whatis
Basically any interest of mine, doesn’t matter what it is, I’ll easily end up rambling on and on about it if the conversation goes there. I tend to end up rambling to people I know about geckos a lot, with varying degrees of interest on their part.
Like many others, I jumped on the sourdough bandwagon in 2020, but fell off sometime during the year after that.
But a friend of mine stuck with it, and expanded into sourdough pizza doughs for NY style or Neapolitan style pizzas in his backyard pizza oven. He had a bunch of us over today, and I don’t think I understood everything he was saying (he was doing 60% hydration for 00 flour, but stuff I didn’t quite catch about when to knead/rest), but I can say that the pizzas he was making were delicious, and he made it seem so effortless to stretch the dough out to around 14 inch (35cm) diameter. And it was kinda infectious to see his enthusiasm for something he’d been churning away at for the last few years, explaining a bunch of things to a bunch of friends gathered around, and just having a great time on a Sunday afternoon.
So a bunch of us are probably gonna try our hands at the same thing, and form a bit of an amateur pizza group, texting our successes and failures to each other.
I got into pizza dough over covid. I currently have three different 00 flours. It’s really fun to try different things though, how long you do each thing, how much of what goes in, pizza stones, baking trays, etc. I’m not at my perfect pizza yet but definitely like what I’m making.
Btw, I use Arch.
Native plant/ecosystem restoration and gardening especially where it intersects edible plants. Also especially around the 45th parallel in N. America.
cars. give me the slightest chance and I will dump everything I know on you. I just love explaining how specific systems work
can you tell me something cool about my 2012 Nissan Rogue AWD. I’ve had it for a few years and I think it’s really lame so something cool to use to flex against other people would be awesome
Hmmm…
Can you confirm your model year has the V8 engine? Wikipedia says it went from a V4 to V8 in 2012, with a top speed of 265km/h (164mp/h) or 282km/h (175mp/h) in sport mode, which seems crazyy for a crossover.
The later generation Rogue was merged into the Nissan X-Trail, making it consistent with internationally sold vehicles and it does NOT have a V8 engine of any kind.
haha no. rogues are some of the worst cars to ever roll off a production line. the cvt transmission in them is so bad that it rarely makes it past 60k
Oh that’s fun to know. Mines at 46k right now.
haha we lucked out actually. my moms rogue started going out at 110k, and my dads altima (also CVT) made it to 220 before we sold it. so, hopefully yours makes it :)
I love making hash! Will very easily go down the rabbit hole and have to pump the brakes so that I don’t overwhelm somebody 😂
Hash as the food? If yes, any ideas? Most of my hashes have been rather boring: [potato|boiled yucca], carrots, bell peppers, [meat|eggs and cheese].
Hahaha hash as in solventless hash rosin - but a good breakfast hash is nice too hahaha
Ah, got it. Sorry!
No worries! I wish you the best of luck on spicing you your hashes though!
Lately I’ve found myself info dumping on people about some tangentially related subjects that I’ve been reading about over the last decade:
- Loss of the ‘third place’
- Privatisation of public space.
- Decimation of the high street & how removing, not increasing parking spaces will be instrumental in reviving it
- How out of town retail shopping parks contributed to the obesity epidemic.
- Why the UK has seemingly unique weather compared to it’s neighbours
It’s not necessarily something that I ‘love explaining to others’. However, academic biblical scholarship has been an interest and endeavor of mine for about thirty years. Luckily and thankfully, I’ve found my self in the center of this unique niche of interested parties with /r/AcademicBiblical and /r/AskBibleScholars.
Think about this for a moment. The biblical texts have had the most influence on western society, and arguably all other societies, for hundreds of years.
Wouldn’t you want to know what these texts are saying?
They aren’t saying what you think they are saying.
If you’ve had no experience with these texts, then you have many years of reading ahead of you.
It is incredibly daunting to know how little most people do not know about this subject. And, at the same time, shape our world based on misinterpretations and/or misunderstandings of this vast library of literature.
A Catholic friend of mine studied classics at uni, so learned Greek and Latin, and they’ve been jazzed at how much nuance or alternative interpretations they’ve found when reading the Bible in Koine Greek.
Are you a Christian? I’m guessing probably yeah, but like you say, the biblical texts have had a huge influence on Western society, so understanding them is useful context for anyone. What got you started on this kind of biblical study - most people I know who do this kind of study are in training for an eventual position within their church
Are you a Christian?
My parents tried to raise me to become one, but that failed. No, I am not a Christian.
What got you started on this kind of biblical study(?)
Many years of spiritual abuse and indoctrination.
Wouldn’t you want to know what these texts are saying?
They aren’t saying what you think they are saying.
Can you give an example? This sounds intriguing.
Over the years we’ve collected our FAQ and our Hall of Fame. Many examples in those.
It’s kind of wild how much more Dante and Milton seem to have influenced the sort of now fairly standard apocryphal interpretations of the general shape of Abrahamic cosmology than the actual canon. Or like, maybe even Islam, honestly, or like Zorastrianism. The hellfire and brimstone stuff really seems to come from somewhere else.
Also I’d like to give Christians who gripe about plural they a lesson on the etymology of Elohim.
The hellfire and brimstone stuff really seems to come from somewhere else.
Out of someone’s ass is my guess.
Yeah maybe, but whose ass? Zoroaster’s? Hinduism’s? Ideas that match hell and an evil opponent for a good god are all over the place.
I’m inclined to lean in the direction of some sort of proto-Hindu-Zoroastrian cosmology in the long run. Ahura Mazda looks a lot like the kind of fighty version of YHVH that modern Christians seem to like, with a nice clear villain and a power struggle in place of a confusing omnipotent being with a combative frenemy pushing its boundaries.
But like, maybe by way of some mostly suppressed gnostic tradition that leaks out through late medieval writings? It’s not hard to see the lower emanations in the 2nd and 3rd century gnostic stuff turning into the more kind of blunt angels and devils motif we associate with Christianity. Especially in the context of traditions like Mancheanism popping up around the same time and drawing parallels.
But like really who in America who votes based on the one particular line in Leviticus that they latch onto knows any of that? I’m guessing basically nobody.
but whose ass?
Someone (or some group) who wanted control over people. All religious literature is rife with politics.
I’ve read everything else that you’ve stated, and I’m aware of these theories, but in the end I lean toward the simpler explanation above.
Just look at the world today. Same type of shit. Most billionaires make their fortunes off the backs of the populace. And they use all of the well-known tactics to do so. Coming up with stories (propaganda) to influence minds across the board.
However, when you take the effort to drill down into the subject matter at hand you’ll find a ‘small still voice’ which points at the ineffable.
The ineffable is what I embrace.
I agree! There’s some potentially useful stuff in some aspects of various religions, but for me the value is in looking at the moon rather than the finger that points at it. The rest are just tools to bring me where I’m trying to get, which is just basically to chill out and be at peace with where I am.
But I definitely do find that the parts that helped point that out were more in tune with zen than the more ritualistic and mythological approach. Also psychedelics, in a sort of roundabout way.
I do have a big soft spot for some of the Greek pantheon, though.
Modular synthesis, archiving, lost media, and most of all, rhythm game lore.
Locksport.
- Anarchism
- Self-hosting software and servers
- Guns and shooting
Ooh, can you explain how guns/shooting becomes a hobby? I can imagine how you might buy one for self defense or hunting, does that maks it a hobby or does it go deeper?
There are many different ways.
There are the guns themselves, which you can approach from a mechanical hobbyist standpoint, like either making them or modifying them. Or you can approach it from a design standpoint, like people who do cerakoting or rattle-canning (spray painting), or of course with different styled components.
There is ammunition, which you can load yourself in order to e.g. get different flight profiles for the same caliber rounds, by changing the weight (grain) of the projectile or by changing the powder load. You can also do this very manually (handloading), or you can use progressive presses to set up essentially a miniature (semi)automated production line, and that is a whole endeavor all on its own. Most of the top long-range competition shooters handload their rounds to best match their rifles.
Then there is the shooting itself, which also has many different totally separate areas of specialization:
Hunting, bench-rest shooting, PRS (precision rifle series/shooting, i.e. long-range), action shooting, cowboy action (like shooting a target course with revolvers or lever-action, sometimes even while you ride a horse), 3-gun (rifle, pistol, shotgun), trap/skeet shotgun shooting (the thing in shows where they shout “pull!”, and launch a clay pigeon)… There’s probably even more I’m forgetting, but each of them are very different, and basically their own whole hobbies.
EVs and 3D printing right now. There is always a cycle, but those are the two I enjoy talking about the most.
