• balderdash
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    232 years ago

    I learned how many times I can jerk off in a day. The pandemic was hard for us single folk.

  • rynzcycle
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    172 years ago

    I can cut my own hair now, it’s great. Not only the money, but the convenience of getting a touch up whenever I want is great.

    • @shandrakor@lemmy.world
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      42 years ago

      Hey me too! I had friends and family asking me how I got through the days and now we all read a lot and have many plants.

    • Shambling Shapes
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      32 years ago

      I’ve been thinking about giving this a go. Any resources you recommend to start out with?

      • @Oldbean@lemmy.world
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        42 years ago

        Mostly from Reddit unfortunately. I actually miss those communities. Uncle Ben’s tech is the method I started with. You might find some YouTube videos with that search, but I’m almost positive there is still the uncle Ben’s subreddit. You also need to find a spore supplier, of course I found mine through Reddit.

        • Shambling Shapes
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          12 years ago

          Thanks. That’s what I’ve been finding as well. Unfortunate, such a wealth of community-built knowledge and they had to go and ruin reddit.

          I had a nightmare last night that Wikipedia started to enshittify. I woke up and donated $. I desperately don’t want them to follow down the drain chasing reddit and YT.

  • @pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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    142 years ago

    Learned how to become a “home barista”. Instead of popping a pod in my Nespresso machine I grind my own beans and brew my own coffee fresh, every morning.

  • @nehal3m@sh.itjust.works
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    142 years ago

    I learned to stop caring so much about work. I slam my laptop shut with a vengeance at 5PM, earlier if I feel like I can get away with it.

  • @kozy138@lemm.ee
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    I learned to repair a carburator for a vintage motorcycle with my dad. I bought the bike with the carburator in a box for $300. I probably put around $500 more into it of which new tires cost around $200.

    That was more than 3 years ago and still ride it today. I’ve done done some maintenance work myself, like changing the oil, brake pads and fluid, and other minor things.

  • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    112 years ago

    I learned how to move the ship backwards by alternating harpoon pulls.

    This was before I realized that you could turn the ship using only the wheel even when you had no forward momentum.

    But still, I felt like a genius the first time I backed the brigantine out of a dead end.

    • @boogetyboo@aussie.zone
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      62 years ago

      You sound like an old timey whaler and it’s very pleasing. Not the implications for the whales. Just the old timey sea-ness.

  • @sodalite@slrpnk.net
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    102 years ago

    Made some progress towards Spanish fluency. Still not fully fluent, but went up a CEFR level.

      • @zeppo@lemmy.world
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        32 years ago

        It was a joke about dystopic pandemic days, and thank you for your reasonable concern. We have this worked out.

        • AtHeartEngineer
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          22 years ago

          Cool, ok, good to hear. Lol sorry, I appreciate dark humor, but have also watched a lot of alcoholics fuck their life up and cause a lot of family problems.

          • @zeppo@lemmy.world
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            12 years ago

            Drinking is definitely fucked up. I’ve had problems with that personally, friends and family sure have had their own plus with me. Once it’s really going it’s difficult to do basically anything productive at all.

  • Presi300
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    62 years ago

    I learned approximately 100 ways to cheat in online exams or exercises, even if they make you share your screen or have camera enabled, which has been immensely useful to me for reasons I do not need to explain…