whelmer

joined 1 year ago
[–] whelmer@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

I lost my kitty last year. Was very close to her as well. I don't believe in ghosts but I think her ghost visited me in a dream shortly after she died. I'll miss her forever.

[–] whelmer@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is so funny

[–] whelmer@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Should Elvis really be vilified for liking blues and rock music and playing it himself? How does that hurt anyone?

Like should we be pissed at Django Reihnhardt? Or R.A The Rugged Man? What about Japanese bagpipe players?

[–] whelmer@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not anyone. You have to be rich.

[–] whelmer@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty amazing story eh? Imagine what his winters were like, for so many years! Peculiar guy.

[–] whelmer@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

This guy is such a shitheel but sending him to pre-trial detention for speaking to the media and framing that as "indirect witness intimidation" seems pretty questionable to me.

[–] whelmer@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This should be higher up

[–] whelmer@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Debian has always worked pretty easily for me on ThinkPads. I guess it depends what you're trying to run it on.

[–] whelmer@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry, that's really hard. I lost my cat at a hard time last year when I was under a lot of stress and I cried quite a bit. Only thing I've cried about in years. He knows that you love him and that you're there for him.

[–] whelmer@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Solid puns but this is actually a problem. Beehives are quite valuable, like $500 per hive or so to just straight up sell them, or obviously they can also be incorporated into an apiary for long-term production.

Theft of beehives is really not unheard of. Similar to how people steal cows and shit. Beekeepers will sometimes brand or otherwise mark their hives in an attempt to deter such thievery.

Personally I keep my beehives in huge steel cages, though that is primarily to protect them from bears.

[–] whelmer@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

If you're able to find time to do a 10 day vipassana retreat, I highly recommend it. It's free and they provide good food, run entirely by volunteers and donations and they have centers all over the world. I've done it a couple times and I know several other folks who have and it is a very compelling experience. I really think the technique they teach is a real cognitive skill, it's taught from a buddhist perspective but there is no requirement that you adhere to any particular spiritual beliefs.

I'm sure there are other forms of meditation that may or may not be helpful, this is just the one I've had positive experiences with.

 

I love this song. A couple times a year I pull it up and brings a tear to my eye every time. I bet you can guess the part if you listen to it. It's a compositional masterpiece in several layers. It grooves like a motherfucker, it's got sick riffs, it's got brilliant metaphor, and the lyrics are real as fuck. And it's a medley fer christ's sakes.

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