Could try hosting a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD). I tried to host an Evennia server last year but could never get it to work properly. Wasn’t a big deal though cause it’s not like I had any friends who wanted to play, lol.

I remember L’oreal Kids shampoo commercials (like 25 years ago) very specifically showed kids happily wiping suds out of their eyes when “NO TEARS!” showed up on the bottom of the screen, clearly to exploit this misunderstanding

Could build a wheelchair ramp on the side of the tub so you can just roll on in

Hit 'em with the Liu Kang Bicycle Kick

I watched Game Grumps play this game a while back and found it very funny. Certainly a labor of love

I’m saying it’s weird that wirchcraft is “culturally acceptable” while the other extremely similar “hobbies” draw widespread derision

I think you said more than that. You said people would “rightfully” make fun of you, suggesting the derision is warranted.

people who don’t leave the witchcraft stuff behind when they grow up are on par with disney adults and hardcore weebs

People with harmless hobbies? I see no problem with this. Why would a self-respecting adult care if others cringe at their interests?

What kind of world do we live in where folks are disappointed that their next kid will be female? It’s dumb society has been crafted this way, stupid af.

I’m probably giving more credit than is due, but:

I don’t think it’s inherently bad for a parent to have a preference for their kid’s sex. If a mother already has a son, I can understand her wanting her next child to be a daughter. Similarly, if a father already has a daughter, I can understand him wanting a son next. All parent/child relationships are special, but I understand parents who are particularly interested in cultivating a mother/daughter or father/son relationship.

Obviously no parent should ever be disappointed in their child for simply being one sex or the other; that’s not okay. But I can understand a parent being disappointed that things didn’t turn out how they had hoped in that regard.

Disclaimer: My father was very transparent that I was a last-ditch-effort for him to finally have a son after having 3 daughters. Thanks dad.

A license obtained in the USA (issued by the FCC) only permits transmission on regulated frequencies within the USA. Other nations will have different regulatory bodies you’ll need to comply with instead. You can probably just do a web search for “<your country here> amateur radio license” and go from there.

Space RF communication protocols and best-use technologies - I need to read about it more

You can get a decent primer on this topic here and here. If you aren’t already a licensed ham, you can look into getting your Technician license (a lofty goal, given the exam comprises thirty whole multiple-choice questions, assuming you’re in the U.S.) and get familiar with transmitting/receiving across long distances.

One fun experiment you can tackle early on before even getting licensed to transmit is to just receive signals from satellites that are already in orbit and can be reliably tracked. For example: you can easily track the International Space Station and know when it will be passing over your location and set up a receiver to listen on the right frequency. It’s not uncommon for them to be broadcasting some kind of signal on a regular basis. Sometimes they even broadcast SSTV signals that you can receive and decode. Once you’ve done this a couple of times, you oughta be pretty comfortable with at least receiving signals from satellites in orbit. Good preliminary proof of concept.

A couple of handy web apps I’ve used to track satellites before:

• https://in-the-sky.org/satmap_radar.php
• https://www.n2yo.com/satellites/?c=18
• https://www.heavens-above.com/

You used to be able to track the ISS through a NASA web app, but they recently retired it in favor of their first-party app 🙄. Admittedly, it’s a pretty great app in my experience. But I wish the old web app were still online. That said, the apps I linked above should also be able to track the ISS as well.

You could use PiVPN (you don’t need to install it specifically on a Raspberry Pi – this is just a handy all-in-one software solution). It supports both OpenVPN and Wireguard standards. Forward the relevant port in your router configuration, set up a single user for yourself in the VPN settings, and then connect via whichever client you prefer (OpenVPN if you use OVPN, or Wireguard if you use Wireguard).

I’ve used it before to access locally-hosted services from outside my home network and it gets the job done with fairly minimal setup.

Took me quite a while to find it. Frustrating considering White has such an overwhelming advantage in this position.

so now i have a mental library of all those tactics that work and very little motivation to try again, it’s going to last a week maybe, and then back to being a mess i go. is there any way to work against that? any point of view i failed to consider?

I think this is something that even those without ADHD struggle with. A change in perspective may help, but it will require exercising a considerable amount of willpower either way. One perspective that has helped me is: Motivation is not reliable. By its very nature, it is fleeting and will wax and wane. What I need is discipline, which is doing something even when I am devoid of motivation (which is most of the time).

For me, it’s difficult being consistent in the gym. I simply cannot rely on being motivated enough to consistently hit the gym several times each week. Though by exercising some degree of discipline, I will force myself into the gym even when I don’t feel like it, and that helps keep the habit up even when motivation is absent. It’s a slog, but I’m always happy with myself afterward for just trudging through.

Even when being disciplined, it’s okay to let yourself miss things here and there as long as you’re overall sticking to it. Some days you may go, “I missed my last 2 workouts, so today I’m going to just do one push-up which is better than nothing” and that’ll have to do for today. Small victories when you can get them. And not beating yourself up when you falter.

Discipline is like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets (ideally. I imagine this is a very uphill battle for those with executive conditions). Hope this helps.

“Octopus’s Garden” by The Beatles seems apropos.

I had this same error a few months ago when a drive was failing to mount because (unbeknownst to me) it was overheating. I turned the system off for a few hours before troubleshooting (I had errands to run). When I came back, the system booted without issue.

If you’re looking for an easy troubleshooting step, have you tried turning off the system for several minutes (and unplugging it) and then powering it back on?

Christmas is what you make of it. All my family looks forward to every year is having a dedicated day we can spend together and share in one another’s company. Are there gifts? Sure. But calling it an “entirely meta holiday” as if no one is actually appreciating the spirit of the season is lazy and reductive.

Macy’s’ ad campaign doesn’t dictate what Christmas is about. That was kind of the entire point of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special that they mentioned.

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Professional boxing is corrupt in many, many ways. I never said otherwise.

That said, boxing being corrupt isn’t the reason that Tyson lost to Paul. Tyson lost to Paul because Tyson was 58 years old. Again, not rocket science. This was an exhibition. The corruption you speak of is more prevalent in the actual professional circuit, not fights between youtubers and influencers.

And perhaps take your own advice about not “contaminating other people’s thoughts” with your unsubstantiated nonsense. Tyson took the fight because the purse was enormous even if he lost, just like everyone who agrees to fight Paul. No one who actually watches boxing was surprised when Paul won.

And yet you refuted no part of my argument and did nothing to lend credence to your own 🤔

The ignorant party here is you. But by all means continue laboring under the delusion that you understand boxing because you watched the highlights of one YouTuber fighting a geriatric in an exhibition.