I learned that it is not in fact normal to be completely overwhelmed with stress all the time, and that it takes one and a half shifts to completely annihilate the good feelings a week of vacation can bring
You too, huh?
I need a new skill so I can get a different job
I learned that the reason a logical “or” symbol in mathematics is a v is because Latin has separate words for inclusive-or (vel) and exclusive-or (aut), unlike English where it is usually ambiguous. And vel starts with v.
GOOD fact
Ooh that’s really cool, I thought it just originated from set theory symbols
Finnish works this way too, coincidentally with ‘v’: vai is exclusive, and tai is inclusive.
the word “jumbo” for “very large” comes from the name of a PT Barnem circus elephant that derailed a train in 1885
If you live in northern NJ and you want to ride at Nickelodeon Universe for free, wait by the American Dream C parking deck entrance around 5-7pm until you see someone leaving with the day pass wristbands on. Ask if you can cut it off and take it, then tape it back together around your wrist, bam.
Solo road trips are very fun. I don’t think my mental health can survive without hiking 30 miles somewhere new on the weekend anymore. Unfortunately this is making me a social outcast, at least compared to how I used to be. I think people see me as entertaining/interesting, but getting someone to join my adventures is tough. It’ll probably force me to leave the job and city that I like when I complete every decent trail in an 8-hour radius in a couple years
move to Seattle and take up mountaineering
Dude I’m on the cusp, I drafted an insta story earlier today to ask everyone I know if they’d be interested in learning mountaineering with me to tackle some mountains in the Cascades
I’m afraid to press send bc I’m scared this is a slippery slope to dying in a bad fall
Start reading Accidents in North American Climbing. They publish annually. See how you feel after reading it. I wouldn’t recommend being a “travel” mountaineer - it’s something you do continually or not. Skills and fitness get rusty quick. The risk of death is real. I have almost died in the mountains on two separate occasions.
Appalachia is good too, Asheville/Brevard are right in the mountains and like 10 minutes from Pisgah Forest, DuPont Forest, the AT, the Mountain to Sea, and Art Loeb.
All those trails are more forest heavy and the traversal isn’t that bad. I know people who will just go out for a week and come back.
Most people don’t die and the ones that fall don’t usually regret it for very long
Obviously there are things you can do to reduce the risks
I’ve been in the midst of a similar realization for the last year or so
You’re the first person I’ve encountered who can relate, that’s amazing XD
It feels weird to talk about the NEED to be outside and busting your ass hiking somewhere. I guess this is probably how people end up on the PCT. I don’t know how to rationalize it otherwise
Yeah! I used to be able to get friends to hike and go on camping trips with me but people’s priorities shift and I’ve realized no one else is really interested enough for it to be worth trying to plan/get people together anymore, so I just started going by myself last year and it’s great. I shoulda started doing it sooner but I guess I didn’t want to admit that no one wants to go on adventures anymore
It really is a pretty good antidepressant though. Sometimes a good hike gives me an afterglow for the rest of the week. I gotta get a water filter soon, that’ll open up another handful of backpacking trails within a few hours of here.
Same, my friends all have new priorities and obligations with significant others, and then there’s me 🥴. I convinced the person who used to be my most reliable friend to do big hikes with me in Europe and Mt Whitney this summer, but he’s only done like 2 hikes this year so we don’t know how it will go lol
Sawyer squeezes (the regular ones) are the way to go. Coupling one with a Cnoc bladder and a cheap water bottle female-female coupling (I think from Garage Grown Gear but also sold by Sawyer) makes either a gravity-fed or hand-squeezed setup easy. I’ve started bringing it with me on regular hikes in place of extra packed water
Do you backpack without a filter?? I know giardia isn’t guaranteed, but that’s pretty brave lol
Oh heck yeah that sounds awesome, i hope his knees are ready for it! Might recommend some trek poles to him if that isn’t already a given? I really wanna go on a bit of a longer trip to do some mountain backpacking out west but i definifely need to train up a bit more. I did a couple day hikes in Colorado a few years ago and the terrain and scenery are such a refreshing change from Appalachia.
About the the filter- nah no way haha, a couple of the trails i did last year had cisterns of drinking water at a few points and another one i was able to cache water in advance at a road crossing about ten miles in. I’ll check out the sawyer and cnoc, thanks for the recommendation! Heavy metals from old ass mining operations are a big concern in the backcountry water sources here, I’ll have to brush up again on what’s out there but from what I remember Grayl had the only filters that made any promises about heavy metal filtration. Kinda inconvenient since they don’t lend themselves to hooking up to a bladder but i guess that’s just the price of living in the dang rust belt.
Honestly, being a runner has s similar flavor.
I learned that kestrels, like the birds, were archaically called “windfuckers”
Photo caption: “Made this handle for my uncle’s maul.”
I just learned that the verb is named after the noun.
Etymology: Middle English (in the sense “hammer or wooden club”, also “strike with a heavy weapon”): from Old French mail, from Latin malleus “hammer”.
americans can’t even build a pier without it being overpriced and falling apart immediately
How to take photos like this! Also that this object exists and is easy to take photos of and a bunch of other stuff about astrophotography.
Now I need a way to russle up a few thousand dollars and some second hand equipment over the next few years. This shit is addictive.
I think hexbear might delete images that aren’t uploaded in the comment? Was it that image stacking technique though?
It just hides the image, you find the image url with the view source button next to the upvote .
Oh nice, good tip I had no idea
What do you mean uploaded in the comment? I did that here I thought. Do you mean explicitly linked?
Ahh might be a lemmy thing i don’t understand then, on my end reading your comment from hexbear.net shows * removed externally hosted image *.
CyberSyndicalist above me said:
It just hides the image, you find the image url with the view source button next to the upvote
But yeah your link edit works just fine and
holy crap that’s awesome, great picture. What galaxy is that?It’s hosted on dbzero since that’s where I’m registered. I guess some policy hides it to avoid inappropriate images from users not on hexbear.
It’s got a million names. It’s NGC 5236/messier 83/the southern pinwheel galaxy. Not for dirty northerner eyes >:D
I learned that Solid exists as an alternative to React and am very excited to try it out in an actual project.
Seems really cool, very easy transition from React and much better
It really is. I’m finding it’s very batteries-included. I keep dreading finding the go-to libraries for it because that’s what I’m used to with React and then I realize there’s just a hook that does the thing that I want already.
I learned of the insane life of Otokichi
What a crazy life he had. Also there’s this…
In popular culture
The story of the Hojunmaru castaways was adapted as the feature film Kairei in 1983. Despite starring country singer Johnny Cash as John McLoughlin, and having a reported budget of US$4,000,000, the film was not a commercial success.
I learned to take a change of clothes to work since I ‘save’ my break till the end, I can wear non sweaty clothes.
I learned that the Japanese really fucked up the Russian fleet after they sent it alllllllll the way from the Baltics to help out in the Pacific during 1905, like they absolutely wrizzecked 'em up
I’ve been learning qt and brushing up on my C++ for a minor project I’m working on
I learned that Poseidon is absolutely fucking busted in Hades 2. The Arcana make it quite a lot easier to do some shenanigans at the moment (at least compared to the first game).
e: Also, always grab the hammer last in the Mourning Fields. If you get Echo next room, you might be able to dupe it for a third hammer.
