I am a bit of a guru on the subject, although I'm far from a perfect practitioner myself.
But if you're having specific challenges or you have particular questions, I may be of assistance!
Rockets, sports, cooking, and mental health. I am not without my specialties.
There are no challenges that really need help, it's just annoying to forget to be mindful.
I have post-it notes and stickers. Completely serious.
On my computer, in my notebooks, anything I see / use regularly (all over my room and Nargirl's room).
I have no memory, so notes and lists and reminders to myself are imperative.
Apparently I'm supposed to visit my mom this weekend! Thankfully Nargirl remembers this stuff, because I don't plan more than 4 hours ahead at any given time.
Last night I spent 7 hours assembling most of the IKEA furniture we got on our last trip only to find out the mattress we have doesn't actually fit the bed that well so we need a new one
Luckily I've got DINK money rn but it's still annoying cause I've got to fly to the Carolinas for a wedding next month and two plane tickets are expensive
Getting honey from hives kills bees and many commercial beekeepers and honey producers are effectively as bad as factory farmers.
Smaller, local apiaries are better, but there is still bee death
Those external flow honey collecting things are a pain to clean and don't work very long, and you're still taking the bee's winter food
I can see why vegans avoid honey, even if I didn't as a vegan
I plan to keep bees.
I want honey and the world needs bees to pollinate so I figured it's a win/win.
I mean how do you get honey without killing bees?
Look man I eat honey and spent weeks each year helping the Entomology department harvest their honey I'm just saying that I can see why vegans might not be down
Idgaf what you do, but collecting honey necessarily invokes bee death
I am a bit of a guru on the subject, although I'm far from a perfect practitioner myself.
But if you're having specific challenges or you have particular questions, I may be of assistance!
Rockets, sports, cooking, and mental health. I am not without my specialties.
There are no challenges that really need help, it's just annoying to forget to be mindful.
I have post-it notes and stickers. Completely serious.
On my computer, in my notebooks, anything I see / use regularly (all over my room and Nargirl's room).
I have no memory, so notes and lists and reminders to myself are imperative.
Apparently I'm supposed to visit my mom this weekend! Thankfully Nargirl remembers this stuff, because I don't plan more than 4 hours ahead at any given time.
I'm pretty excited about lunch.
the more things i offload to external systems like calendars and task systems and paper the better my brain is
the problem is that that is a process that takes work and i often don't keep up with it
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
Facebook is terrible. I am using it a bit to communicate with the small progressive group I found here in MS I find the interface abhorrent.
Twitter is addictive. I'm taking a break from news after the media decided to take trump back like an abusive stepdad because he behaved for an hour. It's hard not loading up twitter.
Because when something happens, you instantly know on twitter. By the time a news site has a headline that shit is old news.
Paying attention to things while simultaneously not caring?
I've actually been trying to do mindfulness meditation where you let thoughts come through your head and then just sort of detach and examine the thoughts as thoughts and it makes no fucking sense how this is supposed to work.
much much much repetition and practice
guided meditation helps
is interesting to have tried acid after having practiced meditation a lot because you're like oh that's that state, that makes sense
I've done acid previously, but not post.
Hmmm.
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
Getting honey from hives kills bees and many commercial beekeepers and honey producers are effectively as bad as factory farmers.
Smaller, local apiaries are better, but there is still bee death
Those external flow honey collecting things are a pain to clean and don't work very long, and you're still taking the bee's winter food
I can see why vegans avoid honey, even if I didn't as a vegan
I plan to keep bees.
I want honey and the world needs bees to pollinate so I figured it's a win/win.
I mean how do you get honey without killing bees?
Look man I eat honey and spent weeks each year helping the Entomology department harvest their honey I'm just saying that I can see why vegans might not be down
Idgaf what you do, but collecting honey necessarily invokes bee death
yeah I didn't mean that like "oh pls arch tell me how to do it WITHOUT killing bees" (this is one of those I typed something so it doesn't read right moments)
I was genuinely asking your opinion on the most humane way to keep bees if you want honey, with the least death, and also get them to help pollinate.
are YOU on the beer list?
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JuliusCaptain of Serenityon my shipRegistered Userregular
Teleworking on Thursday is weird. I have a teleconference at 10:30 as one of my cool coworkers just came back today from maternity leave. Normally I would be there but I had to go in on Monday because of a dumb all hands.
Need to call my investing folks because they did my 1099-R wrong it seems from my withdraw. So I can finish my damn taxes. Stupid complications.
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
Getting honey from hives kills bees and many commercial beekeepers and honey producers are effectively as bad as factory farmers.
Smaller, local apiaries are better, but there is still bee death
Those external flow honey collecting things are a pain to clean and don't work very long, and you're still taking the bee's winter food
I can see why vegans avoid honey, even if I didn't as a vegan
I plan to keep bees.
I want honey and the world needs bees to pollinate so I figured it's a win/win.
I mean how do you get honey without killing bees?
Look man I eat honey and spent weeks each year helping the Entomology department harvest their honey I'm just saying that I can see why vegans might not be down
Idgaf what you do, but collecting honey necessarily invokes bee death
yeah I didn't mean that like "oh pls arch tell me how to do it WITHOUT killing bees" (this is one of those I typed something so it doesn't read right moments)
I was genuinely asking your opinion on the most humane way to keep bees if you want honey, with the least death, and also get them to help pollinate.
I mean, the normal hive setup is probable the best you'll do, you just have to go slowly and carefully when removing frames, uncapping the comb, and doing the extractions. Most deaths happen when they get crushed as you put frames back or they drown in the honey you extracted
Getting honey from hives kills bees and many commercial beekeepers and honey producers are effectively as bad as factory farmers.
Smaller, local apiaries are better, but there is still bee death
Those external flow honey collecting things are a pain to clean and don't work very long, and you're still taking the bee's winter food
I can see why vegans avoid honey, even if I didn't as a vegan
yeah from a vegan standpoint it makes total sense.
the only vegan thing I never really got was their stance against wool, though I suppose it is still keeping animals for their products.
I don't think "vegan stance" is really a thing, though obviously you can find areas of mass agreement. I think there are clusters of behaviors.
I have not had good interactions with vegans, especially in my time in Tempe.
I know it's a prejudiced viewpoint (especially since I've met and am friends with a lot of vegans now), but damn man getting a hamburger smacked out of your hand in a public place really kinda makes you dickish towards the entire idea in general.
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GonmunHe keeps kickin' me inthe dickRegistered Userregular
Getting honey from hives kills bees and many commercial beekeepers and honey producers are effectively as bad as factory farmers.
Smaller, local apiaries are better, but there is still bee death
Those external flow honey collecting things are a pain to clean and don't work very long, and you're still taking the bee's winter food
I can see why vegans avoid honey, even if I didn't as a vegan
I plan to keep bees.
I want honey and the world needs bees to pollinate so I figured it's a win/win.
I mean how do you get honey without killing bees?
Look man I eat honey and spent weeks each year helping the Entomology department harvest their honey I'm just saying that I can see why vegans might not be down
Idgaf what you do, but collecting honey necessarily invokes bee death
yeah I didn't mean that like "oh pls arch tell me how to do it WITHOUT killing bees" (this is one of those I typed something so it doesn't read right moments)
I was genuinely asking your opinion on the most humane way to keep bees if you want honey, with the least death, and also get them to help pollinate.
I mean, the normal hive setup is probable the best you'll do, you just have to go slowly and carefully when removing frames, uncapping the comb, and doing the extractions. Most deaths happen when they get crushed as you put frames back or they drown in the honey you extracted
There are worse ways to go than drowning in honey.
Also if you're concerned about pollination it's important to realize that honey bees only really pollinate our CROPS, and aren't necessary for a functional North American ecosystem. There are legions of other bees that pollinate native plants, along with other insects, and the better way to keep that going is to increase planting of native flora
Ofc if you are doing small scale agriculture then yeah bees are great because all our food crops are imported just like honey bees
Also if you're concerned about pollination it's important to realize that honey bees only really pollinate our CROPS, and aren't necessary for a functional North American ecosystem. There are legions of other bees that pollinate native plants, along with other insects, and the better way to keep that going is to increase planting of native flora
Ofc if you are doing small scale agriculture then yeah bees are great because all our food crops are imported just like honey bees
alright arch when I get my compound set up you can be my bug guy.
you take care of my bugs.
are YOU on the beer list?
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
Getting honey from hives kills bees and many commercial beekeepers and honey producers are effectively as bad as factory farmers.
Smaller, local apiaries are better, but there is still bee death
Those external flow honey collecting things are a pain to clean and don't work very long, and you're still taking the bee's winter food
I can see why vegans avoid honey, even if I didn't as a vegan
yeah from a vegan standpoint it makes total sense.
the only vegan thing I never really got was their stance against wool, though I suppose it is still keeping animals for their products.
I don't think "vegan stance" is really a thing, though obviously you can find areas of mass agreement. I think there are clusters of behaviors.
I have not had good interactions with vegans, especially in my time in Tempe.
I know it's a prejudiced viewpoint (especially since I've met and am friends with a lot of vegans now), but damn man getting a hamburger smacked out of your hand in a public place really kinda makes you dickish towards the entire idea in general.
I've never had something like this happen to me or anyone I know but I can say with a straight and honest face that if someone ever knocked a burger out of my hand I'd give them the option of paying for it or I'd punch them in the face. Their choice.
are YOU on the beer list?
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
I learned a crazy bee fact recently: termites are most closely related to cockroaches and mantises.
Ok, I learned a crazy termite fact that implies a crazy bee fact.
Shive
In most modern taxonomy, termites ARE cockroaches. Isoptera doesn't exist, functionally anymore.
I asked one of the foremost experts of my generation on cockroach taxonomy the following question at the international meeting: " Listen, man, is there any evidence at all that we can recover isoptera, or is Misof off their rocker?" And dude was like "you're really gonna have to get over that one. Isoptera is dead and it isn't coming back."
I learned a crazy bee fact recently: termites are most closely related to cockroaches and mantises.
Ok, I learned a crazy termite fact that implies a crazy bee fact.
Shive
In most modern taxonomy, termites ARE cockroaches. Isoptera doesn't exist, functionally anymore.
I asked one of the foremost experts of my generation on cockroach taxonomy the following question at the international meeting: " Listen, man, is there any evidence at all that we can recover isoptera, or is Misof off their rocker?" And dude was like "you're really gonna have to get over that one. Isoptera is dead and it isn't coming back."
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I plan to keep bees.
I want honey and the world needs bees to pollinate so I figured it's a win/win.
I mean how do you get honey without killing bees?
I also have a post it note
Last night I spent 7 hours assembling most of the IKEA furniture we got on our last trip only to find out the mattress we have doesn't actually fit the bed that well so we need a new one
Luckily I've got DINK money rn but it's still annoying cause I've got to fly to the Carolinas for a wedding next month and two plane tickets are expensive
I, too, remain unsatisified with coffee until my bloodstream has been replaced with caffeine
This metaphor pains me
this is some sort of den of iniquity
i must set up a walkthrough for this weekend
Look man I eat honey and spent weeks each year helping the Entomology department harvest their honey I'm just saying that I can see why vegans might not be down
Idgaf what you do, but collecting honey necessarily invokes bee death
the more things i offload to external systems like calendars and task systems and paper the better my brain is
the problem is that that is a process that takes work and i often don't keep up with it
Twitter is addictive. I'm taking a break from news after the media decided to take trump back like an abusive stepdad because he behaved for an hour. It's hard not loading up twitter.
Because when something happens, you instantly know on twitter. By the time a news site has a headline that shit is old news.
please take pictures
please
pleeeeeeeease
I've done acid previously, but not post.
Hmmm.
You are already dead.
yeah I didn't mean that like "oh pls arch tell me how to do it WITHOUT killing bees" (this is one of those I typed something so it doesn't read right moments)
I was genuinely asking your opinion on the most humane way to keep bees if you want honey, with the least death, and also get them to help pollinate.
yeah from a vegan standpoint it makes total sense.
the only vegan thing I never really got was their stance against wool, though I suppose it is still keeping animals for their products.
(I don't actually know if that last bit is true because ~science reporting~)
Need to call my investing folks because they did my 1099-R wrong it seems from my withdraw. So I can finish my damn taxes. Stupid complications.
I don't think "vegan stance" is really a thing, though obviously you can find areas of mass agreement. I think there are clusters of behaviors.
Pretty sure that honor goes to meth...I just don't get that drug.
I mean, the normal hive setup is probable the best you'll do, you just have to go slowly and carefully when removing frames, uncapping the comb, and doing the extractions. Most deaths happen when they get crushed as you put frames back or they drown in the honey you extracted
Ok, I learned a crazy termite fact that implies a crazy bee fact.
I have not had good interactions with vegans, especially in my time in Tempe.
I know it's a prejudiced viewpoint (especially since I've met and am friends with a lot of vegans now), but damn man getting a hamburger smacked out of your hand in a public place really kinda makes you dickish towards the entire idea in general.
Still haven't been approached by the Red Lanterns?
There are worse ways to go than drowning in honey.
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meth heads probably talk less about tipping and circumcision at very least
Ofc if you are doing small scale agriculture then yeah bees are great because all our food crops are imported just like honey bees
I worry about any of you that willingly engage with these things
They sound like insanity chambers
And this is coming from an insane person
Motor mouth is a thing for simulants
alright arch when I get my compound set up you can be my bug guy.
you take care of my bugs.
I took adderall for the first time in forever the other day and couldn't shut up.
I've never had something like this happen to me or anyone I know but I can say with a straight and honest face that if someone ever knocked a burger out of my hand I'd give them the option of paying for it or I'd punch them in the face. Their choice.
It got about that bad once
And then I realized that was a problem itself, so, y'know
Moderation in everything, as they say
"Girl in bed next to you is friendly. Do not be afraid. She responds positively to affection."
*nods slowly*
But can I trust this post-it note?
with Nangirl that sounds like misleading information
Shive
In most modern taxonomy, termites ARE cockroaches. Isoptera doesn't exist, functionally anymore.
I asked one of the foremost experts of my generation on cockroach taxonomy the following question at the international meeting: " Listen, man, is there any evidence at all that we can recover isoptera, or is Misof off their rocker?" And dude was like "you're really gonna have to get over that one. Isoptera is dead and it isn't coming back."
Like if u crie every tiem
AHH HOLY SHIT WHY IS SOMEONE NEXT TO M-oh right I've been dating her for a year.
Ooh they are definitely insanity chambers.
But if you take your time and really try to parse shit without letting it make you totally crazy you can get a weird Eldritch knowledge from it.
It's almost Lovecraftian in effect.
I AM USING COMMON TERMS FOR ALL BUGS OK