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I second this! That being said, I’ve been successful in recruiting almost my entire friend group over the last few years. All of the people I talk to daily or regularly are on it. Once people use it they realize how superior it is to anything else we’ve been using and end up staying.

You know, of all the things to fix, an instant pot would make me nervous. Don’t mess with the safety valve.

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Why wouldn’t it be? It’s not something I’m doing for school or work. It’s purely for personal growth and enjoyment, like writing and/or reading.

It shouldn’t be just a hobby. I think it should be taught in schools. It is the source of most of the world’s problems.

That articles reminds me of when I listened How to Talk to a Science Denier. They’re fascinating because their beliefs are so obviously wrong even as they proclaim the real facts and flawless logic are on their side. It’s a wonder how people end up believing what they believe.

And then I take a step back and wonder…what am I motivated to believe? And I get where some of my axioms come from.

In any case, that looks like a useful book! Thanks for the recommendation.

I really got started by reading Thank For Arguing. It was a quick and dirty introduction to rhetoric. But what struck me was quotes like

A successful argument, like anything about the future, cannot stick to the facts.

or

The audience’s beliefs are at least as important as the facts

I grew up in a world were facts and logic were esteemed, but, for whatever reason, people don’t even know basic logic and facts are selectively chosen. There was an obvious disconnect that this book explained really well.

And then it went on to explain how to do it yourself. So, that was nice, too.

That’s why we have Mathcore. Also if this is you, please check out this programming themed prog album.

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I’m currently making an Astro theme to make static sites way easier and then after that I’m probably going back to working on the API viewer I was making with Svelte, Tauri, and Rust. (Think of something like Postman but way less bloated.) I mainly just need to finish the settings and redo the data input form and then it should be ready for a first release (but it’ll still obviously be far from finished.)

That’s like the blues brothers bit “we’ve got both kinds of music here. Country and western”.

I think pf2e is better in many ways but it also has a lot of the same stuff.

Honestly, they are extremely different, and while there are transferable skills from apis beekeeping to stingless beekeeping, it is different enough to be a separate hobby entirely.

Apis bees use a wax based honeycomb structure for brood, pollen and honey, whereas stingless bees around the world use tree or plant resins based structures for brood and different resin structures for honey/pollen, and keep them totally separated. As these structures are not as orderly as apis bee frames tend to be, it is much harder to harvest the honey from stingless bees (in Brazil where the honey pots are larger, they use a syringe system to vacuum the honey out of the pots. In Australia where the pots are much smaller, we use a piece of wood with nails sticking out of it to smash all the pots and drain the honey). It is also harder to clone hives due to these structures, as in apis bees you can just take some frames with a queen cell or two and put them in an empty hive and they will hatch into a new hive. In Australia, the most popular method is to literally rip the hive in half and hope both halves survive. You also have to monitor the temperature, because stingless bees have less bees to cool or warm up the hive, and may need help during heat waves or cold snaps to survive.

Having said this, stingless bees are great pollinators, and are totally immune to varroa mites. Their honey is totally different to apis honey due to the flavour contributed by the resin pots the bees store it in and it is extremely interesting (totally worth the extra work to get at). The hives are also much smaller in comparison to an apis hive, so combining their stingless nature into the mix you have a perfect beehive for beekeepers in more urban areas or with younger families.

If you are interested in beekeeping, but not fussed with honey or monitoring for varroa or are worried about getting yourself or people nearby stung by bees, stingless bees native to your region might be be best thing - if maintained, their hives can live longer than we do, and will make you and everyone within half a km of you have great gardens as they go around pollinating everything nearby. Once you have the first hive, you can easily make a second one (the Australian hive design is the OATH and designs for this and upgrades to the standard can be found easily online) and start making your one hive into a ton of hives.

I’ll have a look into this! I’ve been playing solo OPR to get the wargaming itch, but I haven’t found anything for TTRPGs so Ironsworn might fill that hole nicely.