I have a bunch of hobbies, which range from female dominated to a solid mix of participants. However, for a hobby that has a good number of both men and women involved, there seems to be a gap in the participation and achievement levels in a way that mostly alings with gender. A friend of mine mentioned we would have to look at how men engage with hobbies.

Do you feel that the ways men and women engage with hobbies generally, but especially when they share the same hobby still differs?

Right off the gate, while we do have libraries where i live, they are mostly outdated or don't have books on controversial topics, So how does anyone find reliable information when so much of the internet is slop 🤢 and search engines only give the same top 5 "How to stuff 🤑 " websites.

I have been listening to a couple of podcasts 📻 about debunking popular pop culture misinformed science 🧑‍🔬 claims(Your wrong about, Maintenance phase, If books could kill) and that got me interested in trying to research my own topics. But where does one start. I understand that there is no universal solution 🧪 , really what it takes, is alot of googling and going beyond the results first page but maybe there are some good sources?

Sharing some of what i found useful here:

• While libraries in my area are not really an option, looking up books online is a good start. I use goodreads to look up different topics and see what the reviews are saying about the quality and reliability of the book. Its also worth fact the citations of books.

• Turns out google is very good with finding pdfs 📄 , so add type:pdf to whatever your searching. you can also add site:.gov 🏢 to search only gov websites ,or site:.ca 🇨🇦 to search websites that label themself Canada in the URL, for example.

• Use before:, A lot people suggest that you use before:2023 to filter out most AI Slop, date before chatgpt came out, but also i have found interesting stuff when going back further like before:2015.

• I have tried alot of different search engines and they all just serve google results. the one good one is Marginalia . Its not really reliable like say, google in certain cases is, but alot of the time will serve me new sources, its focus is on non-commercial websites

• The last one is kinda of mixed bag(and Meta). When you ask people online for suggestions for something, like say some podcasts recommendations, they tend to give you the same five podcasts. Sometimes its something totally different but its a hit or miss most of the time.

P.S: I discovered emoji markdown just now but its kinda of lacking a bit. Still cool though,

I thought about growing vegetables in order to better weather the coming crises which may be quite difficult, I thought about it a few months ago, but after learning how much I would have to learn, I thought, oh, all this information is spinning my head. Where should I start? What fertilizers to use, how not to overpay money and other resources? How to stretch soil fertility as long as possible and is it possible not to be physically exhausted in the process? Time is also running out.

Well, as a result, my brain subconsciously abandoned this idea, well, I was too used to a comfortable life and food from the supermarket. And so it has been for four months.

I know I'm pathetic. I haven't even bought seeds yet.

Just pertains to the internet, not computers as a whole. Like an offline version of wikipedia, favorite albums/movies/books. Any other ideas?

That anime scale figurine costs $300 but when accounting for the sales tax: it's closer to $340. However, you discover a listing on Mercari that prices the same for ¥20,000 ($124) in brand new condition without imposed sales tax as the seller resides outside US jurisdiction. By using proxies as an intermediary for importation and shipping costs: does that alone elude sales tax?

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/questions/p/1229030/how-can-you-make-sure-that-my-post-that-you-are-reading-now-is-real-and-that-you-are-not

Hello, I am trying to trip one last time before I start this new job. I booked an AirBNB for a cabin, here is my past experiences:

Shrooms - 4.5g, somewhat intense but very enjoyable, really spiritual and emotionally healing. Easy to control and do stuff at this dose.

LSD - 300ug (yes, really 300ug, accurately dosed tabs), really intense, haven't done that dose in 10 years, but willing to give it a go. Really enjoyed the visuals at this dose.

LSD and Shrooms combined - 2g x 75ug, had my first spiritual awakening with this, wasn't crazy visuals but the mind effect was like no other experience I ever had. First time ever asking questions like, "Who am I" and "Where am I". Really beautiful.

Wanted to see about ging 200ug-250ug and 4.5g to 5g of mushrooms combined, heard that dose makes for a really strong trip.

I also have my DMT cart, which I'm really trying to use, I never had a full DMT trip with visuals, more just a mind / body feeling. Since I have my own cabin, it really frees the experience and makes me less anxious about people hearing me or walking in on me.

Hürrem Sultan (Roxelana). She was born a Ruthenian (modern-day Ukrainian) commoner, captured by Crimean Tatars in a slave raid as a teenager, and taken to Constantinople, where she entered the imperial harem. She eventually became Sultan Suleiman’s favorite concubine. In a complete break with Ottoman tradition, Suleiman freed and married her, making her his legal wife. Until then, sultans generally married freeborn foreign noblewomen, if they married at all, and had children with slave concubines instead. Hürrem went on to become one of the most powerful and influential women in Ottoman history and the first of the prominent women of the Sultanate of Women. She’s widely considered the first, and perhaps the most powerful, Haseki Sultan. It’s probably the most fairy tale-like rags-to-riches story I’ve ever come across.

I've always been interested in learning other languages so it'd be cool to get some recommendations. So far, I've come to like Me!Me!Me! by Teddyloid, the instrumental for Headbanger by Baby Metal, J'en Ai Marre by Alizee, and Yuve Yuve Yu by The HU.

I recall reading both "The Good Soldiers" (兵士は戦場で何を見たのか) & "Thank You For Your Service" (帰還兵はなぜ自殺するのか) by David Finkel in Japanese which have been renamed into "What did soldiers saw at the battlefield?" or "Why do returnees commit suicide?" , very different from the English original. The artwork for the front covers are different, the English one depicts troops in Iraq from inside a Humvee while the Japanese one depicts actual combat.

(Japanese books: translated from another language or originally Japanese written are always formatted from right to left with vertical text, even translated versions of works that are originally in English get the reading format mirrored, also the book dimensions do differ: English novels are larger while Japanese versions are smaller in comparison).

I mean, is this also present in European languages (i.e. German, Spanish) where a translated copy of literature that's originally published in English is called under a different title irrelevant from the source material alongside different cover art? The thing is, why are translated versions of books sometimes published under a completely different title and depending on the publishing house, why do they create their own front covers in the translated copy?

Rick James kidnapping and trafficking a woman with his 21 year old girlfriend whom he forced the victim to preform oral acts on her as he tuned in and is she objected, he would severely abuse her with a scorching crack pipe.

Dave Chappelle and Charlie Murphy basically revived the legacy and reputation of a horrendously deranged cocaine addicted sex pest.

As if Chappelle isn't already falling off hard enough I candidly pointed out how even his golden years weren't as golden as they seemed either.

I recently realized you never hear of old-timey/classical women composers. Surely they were around?

I have so many questions for yall lol.

So for the letter t, do you just keep track in your head to write the vertical curve first then remember the horizontal dash after? For longer words, do you sometimes forget these final touchups?

Also does signing a signature come natural for you, i.e. due to the non stop motion?

And not just "t" and "i", if you do the same thing for letters from other languages like accents from other languages too, e.g. á, à, ü...etc. Then please share your thoughts too.

Just the title. Heavens? Hells? Purgatory? Nothing? Become one with the universe? Reincarnation?

Bonus question: If you could design the system of your choice, what would you want?

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/questions/p/1226738/how-do-men-make-friends

Is there a registration or something?