what are you interested in? what do you find that you always end up doing, when youre alone? what do you think about? creative things? have any ideas about solutions to problems you find?

here is a random list of skills that ive developed since around that age:

• cooking (working restaurants of various types and doing Food Not Bombs direct action stuff)

• naturopathic medicine and herbal remedies (studied and worked with/for a family business that produced, marketed, and sold homeopathic/naturopathic medicines, tinctures, etc.

• sustainable residential construction (started with learning building Earthships, moved to high-end custom carpentry, to conventional remodelling and construction)

• Trail building and forestry (spent 2 years doing forest thinning for wildfire management and trail building on the Continental Divide)

• edible landscaping/local agriculture (Nashville Foodscapes designed and implemented landscaping that used native plants and fruit bearing and edible plants as beautiful landscaping)

• Music and art (im self taught musician and artist using various medium. woodwork, pen and ink, graphic design)

• IT, software development, systems building (self taught and AI assisted projects building production apps for various business ideas, building tools to help me in my day to day, etc.)

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science Information Technology (I need the peice of paper that says im worth 100k salary)

Just do shit, dont think so hard. Follow your heart. If theres something youre interested in, go seek it out and immerse yourself. Then see where it takes you.

Ive travelled the world and USA building Earthships, met people from all over the world doing different things and the broader your experiences are the more oppurtunities you will find.

Vibe coding.

fuck all these people. if you didnt know, ill fill you in…theyre all full of shit. fuck the republican party and the democratic party. this “my team is better than yours” bullshit is working exactly how its supposed to. literally to waste our time while they blow up brown kids and enslave the global south for corporate profit…

im really impressed by the projects that continue to exist. since the “mainstream” dawn of desktop home linux (circa 2004?) so many open source projects that were critical for the user base ecosystem to find linux daily-able are still going. open source is awesome. from a user perspective, i am not a developer, i hate and suck at ‘coding’…but im so appreciative for the developers and maintainers of the vast amounts of code that exists in the linux open source space…badass

indubitably

jokes on you, i was lookin for a job when i found this one.

linux is amazing. i dunno what rust is, but ive been using linux a long time. i appreciate the modern comfort. but whatever happens happens. itll still be good.

tried joplin, not intuitive for me to use

awesome, thanks! ive been needing a good mind mapping tool, just started using obsidian so im very new to all of it.

i havent seen this feature in my obsidian

best news i read all day

Oh now they want out? I thought they moved there because they love it and want to assimilate into the population. Become one of the locals and partake in the struggle for the beauty of life, a brotherhood of man…

“we will not tolerate aggression unless it’s from us”

same problem different industry. if its not drilling for oil and destroying the environment (as we know it) it’s outsourcing labor and mining to third world countries to exploit their land, resources and workforce. destroy others ability to utilize their own land for their community resource production while pushing them further into poverty and “welfare”. and killing anyone who tries to get in the way or is willing to work on systems that benefit their community by shielding it from neoliberal capitalist multinational corporations.

make good food and eat it.

I wore the crap out of my pair of New Balance skate shoes, forgot the model. But they’re still going strong. Ive biked with cages, walked, work construction, whatever, they’re just dirty but they’re still holding up.

Can you bring a canister cook stove? something like a Jetboil? that way no need for a whole fire etc. you can boil water etc, cook basic stuff like ramen etc. make coffee…Hardy veggies should be good, beef jerky, cured meats like salami etc. dried fruits and nuts, bread, crackers etc. regular fruit, granola bars…i would just bring a little burner thing if you can it will be so much nicer than only eating cold foods etc.

it uses true gps from my understanding, not cell service triangulation

Im beginning to use lemmy more and more and preferring it over reddit. Its much better, conversationally and without the suggested Jesus and Army and Navy ads etc. However my usage is still similar to reddit, ie scrolling and reading alot of things and memes etc. But the conversational interactions seem alot more productive, i like that.

lol at government email using microsoft which has been known for poor security for decades…“we dont practice proper security measures on the internet, but its the damn chinese!”