Float-tanks are this:

Imagine a bigger-than-normal bathtub, so you can sprawl-out ( arms & lega akimbo ) without hitting the sides…

the water-density is upped with brine, instead of plain water ( the float-tanks place I used to go to used sacks of “bitter salts” & the texture of the brine was damn-near oily, and DO NOT EVER shave shortly before going into a brine-soak, or you’re going to discover what stinging really means )

also it is brought up to a person’s body-temperature, or close to it.

When there’s no temperature-difference, & you’re floating sooo high that drowning is much less likely ( the Dead Sea is probably the prototype for all float-tanks, btw ), & you aren’t bumping into the walls, then you’re in blissful sensory-deprivation ( total dark, too, obviously, probably use a timer, limit it to 2h max ), & meditation can be awesome in these conditions.

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Please invest in Dallas Murphy’s ebook “Plain Sailing”.

https://www.amazon.com/Plain-Sailing-Sail-Trim-Manual-Sailors-ebook/dp/B00593YTJG/

It gives you all the fundamental-understandings, & by making you basically-competent-in-understanding sailing, it gives you significant advantage over everybody else looking at having a bit of sailing-time on someone’s boat.

Authors to know of include:

• Tom Cunliffe ( I can automatically recommend anything instructional of his, & he has a youtube channel )

• Nigel Calder, if you’re looking to invest in a cruiser for yourself, you want to read his books.

• John Kretschmer’s books are excellent.

if you want to have a cheap boat of your own, then there are 2 books I recommend, the white-cover book by Dynamite Payson & the Building an Outrigger Canoe book.

https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Boatbuilding-Dynamite-Payson-Paddle-ebook/dp/B00UYB5EGK/

https://www.amazon.com/Building-Outrigger-Sailing-Canoes-Construction-ebook/dp/B00CKMG7E4/

Do keep in mind that in some jurisdictions, human-powered hulls do not require registration ( canoes, kayaks, rowboats, etc, ), whereas powered hulls ( including motor AND SAIL ), legally do.

Between those 2, you should have some understanding of how to get yourself afloat, affordably.

Please do not compromise safety, though: alcohol massively multiplies the death-rate on the water, so segregating alcohol from operating-aquatic-vehicles is a good thing, see?

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TTBOMK, there are 3 things which change-the-rules, significantly.

1. Pimsleur. Get the Pimsleur app, get the all-languages subscription, & do 1 session per day.

2. Flashcards, or Anki, to get the visual imprinted into your automatic-mind, for any language you are trying to learn

Later…

3. Tandem, where you find a speech-learning partner, you help other people learn your languages better, other people help you learn your target-language better.

Begin with Pimsleur & with some yt videos.

( they have no Sanskrit, which is the one I want, unfortunately )

Do well!

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Invest in these books, now:

( not affiliate links, which should be obvious from the short uri’s )

https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Foundation-Entrepreneurship-ebook/dp/B007AIXKUM/

https://www.amazon.com/Slicing-Pie-Handbook-Perfectly-Bootstrapped-ebook/dp/B01LZJWFXH/

https://www.amazon.com/Lead-Right-Your-Companys-Type-ebook/dp/B01N6QY98O/

https://www.amazon.com/Business-Model-Generation-Visionaries-Challengers-ebook/dp/B06X426D4F/

IF you do not understand all the stuff in there, THEN you’re suckerpunching your life, and I don’t want that happening, ok?

Salut, Namaste, Kaizen, & Fare as well as you possibly can.

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Please edit your post, to add the important question “Why?”, as that makes the discussion much more interesting!

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?

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Confessions should only be between oneself & LivingSpirit.

Confession isn’t a social-engaging, unless its some kind of codependency-ritual, which isn’t healthy.

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It also is true that ideologically-motivated-coding is an actual thing.

Imagine someone hating that their propaganda gets deleted by moderators, so they make it difficult for moderators to function that way…

while they, themselves, just so a SELECT on their DB to see the images, to delete all the ones they don’t want…

Remember, it isn’t only corporations who are committed to enforcing the Enshittocene, ideologues do, too.

Those comments are proven false by the dot-4 release of Lemmy, but I’m not accusing the Lemmy devs of being the way those post-quoted comments said.

I AM stating, bluntly, that deliberate torque on the use of ANY aspect of an app, is a thing, now, and need be considered as ONE of the possibilities.

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Multiple conflicting definitions for “Conservative”, for 1 thing…

WHEN you tolerate the:

• moneyarchists
• legalists
• class-position worshippers / monarchists
• authority-worshippers

to claim that they define conservatism,

& us who’re committed to conserving

• G-D given LivingValidity
• G-D given LivingWorth
• G-D given LivingPotential
• G-D offered LivingOpportunity

… people are therefore defined to be not “conservative”…

then the framing has been highjacked.

Integrity-conservatives are conservatives.

LivingPotential conservatives are conservatives, who’re interested in competent education for all, instead of accommodating the obliteration of LivingPotential through shit “education”…

LivingOpportunity conservatives are conservatives, who want wastefulness-of-LivingOpportunity to be eradicated, so that we can be inhabiting it, instead of allowint it to be eradicated/wasted…

etc.

I’d begin with the correct qualification of the version of “conservative” that a person is claiming.

Corrupt privilege-conservatives ought be called such, & not let get-away-with claiming that the’re the rightful definers of “conservative”.

This should go for all “conservative” & “liberal” identifications:

Let people claim whatever variant they want, and then enforce accountability through matching their actual-behavior against their claims, with indestructible public accountability.

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There isn’t any someone I want to be hugging.

It’s a nonsensical concept.

Closeness…?

you require sufficiently-related identity/ego underlying you, for that.

People who are too different, one cannot be close with, obviously

( extreme case is when prejudice is between people, but the underlying principle holds much more solidly than just-that-case )

I’m not putting this here for any “pity”: I’m putting this here so that if there’s any other person who’s in the destroy-unconscious-ignorance-no-matter-the-cost kind of life, that they can see what happens, when one keeps going.

Eventually you reach a condition where collaboration with others still is entirely possible, but “belonging” has become gone.

Keep going: they integrity one can earn, the conquering of one’s own unconscious-mind, it is worth it.

Some might relate it to being a time-traveler: one’ll never fit-in, in the people one lives among, but it is itself, not any fiction thing.

Cracking one’s unconscious is sooo far outside what “acceptable people” do, that … if you go far enough, then you … are just too different.

Divergeance is fine, though, so long as living is fine.

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I’m fed-up with shaving, & wish I could get & use a laser permanent-ish epilation thingy for my beard, but … my hair’s mostly white, now, & it requires color for working ( the laser-light has to be absorbed, right? )

I don’t know that Black people could use that, though, now that I think of it ( the unfairness of it just struck me, it isn’t pertinent to your situation, I don’t believe )

hmm…

The most-predictable method I know-of, for producing inability-to-plan, is chaotic/incomprehensible parenting or home-situation:

The child learns that there is no cause-effect relationship, that no planning is going to produce any results, & this lesson alters their unconscious brain-wiring … by the age of 7?

Possibly younger.

WHEN life is irrational & chaotic, THEN planning is wasted-effort, & only immediate-gratification produces any worthwhile results.

That sabotage-of-a-life isn’t undoable.

Worse, it’s self-perpetuating, generation on generation.

Breaking the cycle … how could it happen?

You’d need to break the brokenness in the parenting, itself, & you’d need to do it consistently, for the next-generation, so they grew-up with stable & trustworthy parenting, through years of young-childhood…

how could such result be created.

No population would tolerate such alteration of their family-process, would they?

There’s fish in Worcestershire sauce, iirc…

I hadn’t known that, until reading the fine print…

Power-consumption.

Also, the vibration produced by the 2.5" drives is less, but they’re more-sensitive to it, to begin with.

I’d not even consider spinning-platter drives, nowadays, though:

SATA SSD’s for a NAS strike me as being the sanest choice.

Samsung what are those called, Evo drives?

excellently-high MTBF, ultra-short ( compared with rotating-platters ) seek-time ( literally orders-of-magnitude quicker ), etc.

I don’t know of ANY reason to go with spinning-platters, nowadays.

( & I’m saying that as a guy stupid-enough to have not realized this in time, & who spent money on such a thing, when SSD’s really were the answer )

It’s a responsiblity that should be only happening to people who’ve lived long-enough to have the basis, in experience, for doing it.

We’ve been failing children, more & more profoundly, as we’ve been letting the segregation-of-authority-from-responsibility and segregation-of-wealth-from-earners progress…

My experience is that USB storage sometimes breaks-connection for no discernable reason.

That if one REALLY wants to do USB storage, then put it inside the housing, and don’t use one of the external-connectors, use something you can permanently-fix, so nothing can even sneeze in its direction.

This mayn’t help you with your puzzle, but it’s bedrock and unchangeable, in my experience.

USB-storage is an unreliable joke.

ANY revision of it, that I’ve tried.

hth…

Vacuuming them probably won’t kill them.

You’ll instead have now-malevolent angry spiders in your vacuum-cleaner.

I happen to consider that to be a Bad Idea…

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monopoly & lockin mitigate risk of migration.

That is the whole point of monopoly & lockin.

which is why it is the primary strategy being used against humankind, now.

By all factions, not just gov’t, business, or NGO’s, or churches, but ALL of them.

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Canuckian results from www.DuckDuckGo.com include…

( I’m just copy/pasting interesting-looking links: I haven’t experience with these, but am just saving you some clicks : )

https://chatelaine.com/living/independent-bookstores-canada/

https://www.thestar.com/business/rise-of-the-indies-as-big-bookstores-like-indigo-struggle-independents-are-flourishing-here-s/article_5dc6c3fa-67e1-50ea-bffc-2e8390677b2b.html

https://www.savvynewcanadians.com/best-bookstore-toronto/

https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/

( they are the Canadian equivalent to Am & B&N: they bought & wrecked Chapters, years ago )

https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/home

https://www.renaud-bray.com/home.aspx

http://pulpfictionbooksvancouver.com/

http://www.aaronbooks.com/

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/travel/tripideas/the-most-beloved-bookstore-in-every-state-21-isn-t-just-for-ivy-leaguers/ss-BB1n8ku4

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There are now exactly 3 antihistamines I recommend, for different reasons…

• Cetirizine Hydrochloride
• Desloratadine

Those 2 are a recent-generation of antihistamines, & both are remarkable compared with the make-you-incompetent-to-fucking-walk-straight antihistmines I grew up with.

• Benadryl

I’ve read that immediately chewing your max-dose of Benadryl can help with things like allergic-reaction to bee-stings, snake-bite, etc, & therefore should be in one’s 1st-aid kit.

Now they’ve got liqui-gels?

Maybe I should fix my 1st-aid kit, then…

Oh, from what I’ve read, the Desloratadine is better than the Loratadine: it has been noted to produce fewer side-effect harms, in studies.

ttbomk, Loratadine requires more biological processing by our bodies, to do its work, so its biochemistry cost is higher, to the one taking it.

I’ve found the generic brands of Cetirizine & Desloratadine work fine, for me.

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