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asterism OP wrote
Teach me your ways sensei. 🙇
lettuceLeafer wrote
I just washed my ass after shitting with my left hand for the first time. Pretty based ngl.
Embarrassed I didn't try it sooner.
roanoke9 wrote (edited )
The garden. Here's one bit: just learned what rose hips are because I was thinking, what is this weird cherry looking thing on this mini-rose bush. Turns out that is how you propogate roses from seed and the outer part of the hip is what contains vitamin-c for tea. So now I' ll be growing roses from seed and collecting the hips for a non-citrus source of vitamin c. I'd seen rose hips as ingredient in supplements but had always guessed incorrectly that rose-hips was an herb or something that happened to have rose in the name. Plant names can often be like that,.
Bird wrote
I would probably say my greenhouse would be what singular object I'm most proud of, built it from scratch with no real plans, vaguely designed to be easy to take apart for when I inevitably move again. Made almost entirely from materials "borrowed" from a construction site nearby. Not an engineer by any stretch but it's so far lasted 3 years with minimal maintenance and held strong in the worst of weather. Proven to be hospitable to even the most finicky of plants, including a few of the more exotic varieties. It's really the only thing nowadays that keeps me from just saying fuck it and leaving without a trace, which I guess is kind of a double edged sword but it's something in my life that I really have complete control of so I'm attached to it.
Sorry if this is rambly I am only now recovering from a horrible stomach sickness I developed early last week any only barely coherent
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asterism OP wrote
Sorry if this is rambly I am only now recovering from a horrible stomach sickness I developed early last week any only barely coherent
Is it even raddle if it isn't rambly and incoherent? /s
But also this wasn't rambly or incoherent.
The greenhouse sounds awesome, you must do a lot of gardening to have built your own greenhouse.
Bird wrote
Quite a bit, usually have the better part of 30 seedlings at any time. Mostly kiwi and prickly pear right now.
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cyberrose wrote
As working class kid going through all the formal education institutions just to find out it's much harder for me than for others (since I had to work beside all the learning) while I see others enjoying vacations; and in the end realizing all that shit is bullshit and telling all that the people in my first company (which paid me really good for almost no work) before quitting.
kano wrote
The amount of German I've managed to learn in the last almost 4 years. That I've spent 10 months of the last 2 years employed. The amount of progress we have done on our house since we got it in the beginning of 2021.
asterism OP wrote
Did you decide to learn German for a specific reason? Also did you get a "fixer-upper" for a house, what kind of shape was it in and what have you done?
kano wrote (edited )
Yes I've been learning German since I arrived in Germany. I didn't know anything until I came here.
I don't know what you mean by a fixer upper exactly. But we have been renovating the house mostly by ourselves. It had been mostly abandoned when we bought it, was filled with trash, had no heating. In the beginning everyone slept in the one room which had a wood stove, which is now our dining room. We have at this point renovated most of the first floor, we have removed moldy wood and wallpaper, plastered all the walls, wired up electricity and central heating, at this point we can use central heating to heat most of the first floor either using gas or a wood carburetor. Most of us now live in a fully renovated room on that floor. I will move into a room there in a couple weeks most likely. We still don't have a full bathroom, just one toilet on each floor and a temp shower in the kitchen. The idea is to use the 1st floor as private living space and the ground floor as a social centre with bike workshop, library, public kitchen and more, we still have to plan how we want to set the ground floor up. We also have a large garden a smaller gatehouse which we sound proofed as a music making room. We also have a small stage outside near the fire ring where concerts can be held. The house has changed a lot since we arrived here.
asterism OP wrote
by "fixer-upper" I just meant a house that you move into thats going to require you to do a massive amount of projects to make livable/comfortable. Which I guess is super relative but basically the house you described moving into.
Sound like you've done quite a lot. I would be proud too. I aint sure I personally would have the aptitude to do most of that.
kano wrote (edited )
I would say that's a fair description of the house. Yea it's a lot of work and can be stressful to live on a construction site, but we are a relative large group of people and a lot of us have lived together before and want to stay together. Some of us are definitely somewhat burned out at this point, but I feel all in all we have done so much good work and the renovated parts of the house are really nice and it can only keep getting better.
figwasp wrote
I’ve survived this long.
tuesday wrote
i did a really cool thing once that made a big difference for a lot of local queer and trans youth. so that was neat.
stagn wrote
my massive vegan shit
Bezotcovschina wrote
I've made some shitty "Go Vegan" graffiti in my life
veuzi wrote
I downloaded FamiTracker the other day and have successfully managed to make some very short proof-of-concept chiptunes. Note that I was never into the tracker music scene and have never used any tracker software before. I was taught to sequence notes horizontally, not vertically, in FL Studio's piano roll.
Majrelende wrote (edited )
Being a horribly backwards and twisted human being, I don't swear. I don't like invoking negative emotions like that, and especially the word "shit" because what comes out the bottom end is very worthy of respect. It sounds ridiculous-- but the only time I ever swore was ironically.
stuffy wrote
One of my students got into his top choice for graduate school.
lentils wrote
being vegan despite it being borderline socially unacceptable.
SnowCode wrote
Sharing tutorials and other stuff and knowing that it really helped some people and made them happy.
Also, I think I am getting better at communicating (see Relationship Anarchy) my emotions despite the social norms that makes it hard. "Big boys don't cry" kind of shit sure is very very harmful.
Vulgar_Soda wrote
Haven't had a job in over a year 😎🤙
Now I gotta figure out how to do this for longer ...