socks dont weigh much, then again I dont subscribe to the ultralight stuff. I am paranoid so I bring 4. One to wear, one I just cleaned and is drying, one for a backup (if I am hiking in wet conditions and want to change mid day or if I get a hole in one pair or…), and one as a backup to the backup. Three is probably enough, but I always have that second backup.

Im a big guy too and I was never a fan of the ultralight obsession. just stumbled onto this community as some friends are talking about doing a section of the PCT next year. Gear review/recommendations are welcome.

Wash them?

If you are backpacking, you should have at LEAST 2 pairs of socks and you wash them at the end of the day. Use campsuds or the equivalent. I also had a ritual of washing my feet every morning with the cold stream water right before putting on the socks. It helped prevent blisters. This was back in the day when you had to have a pure wool sock and a polypro liner as a separate sock. now the smartwool is much easier to deal with.

Just serve the fruit seperate.

I do not like melons. Because they are cheap they put them in all the fruit salad and they contaminate all the good fruit they touch.

Even fruit salad that doesn’t have melon in it (rare), the bananas get turned to mush and the oranges get beat to pulp.

There is no upside to tossing it all together unless you put it in wine for sangria.

another fun fact, today is international talk like a pirate day!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day

The whole statement of, “for some reason, the most extreme views get pushed” was kind of interesting to me. The reason is engagement. We know that.

I have to say the whole gamer gate thing made me realize I’m too old for this shit and I have no idea what the hell is going on on the internet anymore. I still don’t really understand what the fuck happened. Because every time it’s brought up, it gets brought into this weird huge discussion like this video.

Brown the butter before adding back in the drained noodles and add cream cheese. Cut back the milk a bit.

Yeah like bigballs was trying to help others. Don’t buy it for a second.

The whole new math everyone was complaining about is trying to do this. Granted teachers are human and flawed so sometimes it has not been implemented well, but it is aimed in the right direction.

I am absolutely going to start responding to questions / statements about gender with this concept though.

“There are only two genders”

“Yeah, and there are only 3 states of matter! These woke scientists with their DEI alphabet soup of mattet B-E Condensates, and QSL, and DEGERATE MATTER! Its sick I tell you”

public indecency and indecent exposure may also require registration on the state’s sex offender list.

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I scored 614/1000🎗️

1️⃣📍1.5K km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥈161/200 2️⃣📍1.4K km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥈160/200 3️⃣📍8.6K km - 🗓️8 yrs - 🥉95/200 4️⃣📍523 km - 🗓️29 yrs - 🥉103/200 5️⃣📍1.9K km - 🗓️23 yrs - 🥉95/200

https://whentaken.com/

aka how not to be an asshole.

Watching my kids take swim lessons I am super impressed how they KNOW how to teach. They have a slow steady progression of techniques that build on eachother. Same with gymnastics. Build strength, technique and confidence. No need to terrify kids.

In a similar vein, the social emotional learning they are teaching kids is great.

I use this with moderate success. I think my limited success is the nature of the creek constantly cycling out water.

In the US they can be bought as mosquito bits/dunks https://summitchemical.com/products/mosquito-bits/

It is important to note this is not a poison. It is a naturally occurring bacteria that is harmless to the food chain (Bacillus thuringiensis). That is important to me and, I think, a lot of others.

I’m on the 7th and most recent.

The thru line meanders a bit, but not too bad. I wish I had read them chronological instead of in order (5 and 6 are swapped, and 6 is a bit different tone)

I think of them as popcorn books. Very light, quick reads. I actually read the first two on a flight back from Europe. Definitely fun, somewhat predictable/formulaic but it doesn’t take anything away for me.

It’s because they used the prequel bullshit by Kevin J. Anderson as a basis. He is a shit writer.

I would much rather see a God Emperor series. There is so much you could do with that.

Another Jpop/metal band is Necronomidol. Whereas babymetal is jpop with metal, I think they are more metal with jpop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYN932VzxV0

I definitely remember hearing “Here put this helmet and [thick] jacket on”… “Stay there and wait” etc

I was the younger brother. I was “willing” to do a lot of things I knew were bad ideas.

If only we had an ally who needed our oversized military who also had a huge reverse of rare earth elements.