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

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      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.

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    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.

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    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.

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        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.

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          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.

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    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.

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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.

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

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    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.

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

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      Wanna start a business? Vodka that comes in what looks like a 24 pack of Poland springs?

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

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          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.

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            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.

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    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…

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    I got significantly better at brewing beer.

    I make my own Greek yogurt now. I like it much better than store-bought.

    I improved in two languages. I’m not great at either but they’ve helped me build rapport with work colleagues and have come in handy while traveling.

    I finished a master’s degree and all the skills that entails.

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      Can you give me some guide/steps.

      I always wanted to try greek yogurt because its high in protien and nutrients, but it’s very hard to find it in stores where i live…

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        Getting an instapot was the difference maker. It made it a setup-and-walkaway operation. It’s also very easy to sanitize first, running a quick boil cycle with just water

        And then I figured out less starter results in a thicker yogurt on the “Greek” end. It was counterintuitive, at first; I thought “more starter” = stronger end result = “Greek”, but that was not the case.

        6-8 hours gives me a milder yogurt, while 8-10 hours gives me a tarter yogurt that I like for smoothies.