I enjoy Powerlifting, Fishing, and Carpentry. I don't have any friends from those hobbies.
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I used to enjoy conspiracy theories, because I thought it would be cool if they were true.
Things like cryptids, aliens, etc...
But now all the conspiracy groups are filled with stupid right-wing science deniers.
Try being a classicist... it's rough out here. Can't really say I love Greece and Rome without sounding insane.
I can't wear my King of the Hill shirts anymore because I don't want people to think I'm a trumpster.
Weightlifters seem to hove about similar parts make up very kind people who just want others to succeed and people who listen to Joe rogan and Jordan Peterson.
Lmao this is so true. One or the other, no in between.
Linux and crypto users. Sometimes, people just use monero for it's technical merits....
technical merits.
Like buying 'goods' on the internet ;)
I'm telling you, this is gonna be privacy's big year.
I changed my views over crypto for some part, although I still think rugpulls, NFTs, and scamcoins are also bad.
Blacksmithing/bladesmithing.
I spent must of my youth fascinated by knives, still am, and this got me into classical metal working. By the time I was 18 I had built a pretty decent working forge in my mom's backyard.
Shortly after 9/11 I took a week long class in bladesmithing in Arkansas. Outside of Blade Forums and the occasional knife show, I'd never really interacted with other knife people. Not a whole lot going on in my large northern city.
The way those bastards talked openly about anyone that wasn't white or Christian turned my stomach. I pretty much kept to myself, it hung out with the one chill hippy from Oregon, or the eternally gob-struck British blacksmiths apprentice (You sell GUNS in a GROCERY STORE?!)
I learned a lot on that trip. Nowadays I don't bring up my knife hobby because I sure as shit don't want to be mistaken for one of those ignorant cretins.
Surely there are communities of bladesmiths that aren't total bastards, right?
They mainly make longswords
I haven't gone to any live events in years. Maybe now there are more millennials and zoomers things are more chill? When I was active it was mostly boomers and I was the young weirdo with earrings that got the side eye every time I opened my mouth.
I'll have to poke around and find out.
Is it surprising to you that people can spend their free time independent of their political paradigm?
Hydroponics as well I guess. My DIY automated grow room with a water pump, grow lights, heater and plant shaker (for pollination) always has people think I'm growing weed but I just want chillies and tomatoes.
I like 90% of the shit in this thread lol
Same. And I wish I would learn, but more often I'm just horrified after I make a new hobby friend then they say some bullshit.
Yeah I'm not here for this. I just felt this massive wave of fatigue wash over me as I read it.
Like it or not you're going to run into weirdos in just about every hobby. All preemptively judging people does is teach people to keep to themselves. We're already building up a society of loners where people struggle to connect to each other with various other causes(loss of third places for example). We don't really need something like this pushing people further apart, especially when that ultimately drives peoples empathy for each other down too.
Yeah, I have a fondness for Norse history but mostly from a sustainability perspective. The people who settled Iceland were incredibly efficient with their resources and I think we could learn a lot from the turf houses they built... But I am about as far left as a person can get. I want open boarders, worker co-ops, the abolishment of billionaires, free college / healthcare, and a slow and steady attempt to pursue communist goals.
Warhammer 40k. I like to paint little green guys and then move them around a battlefield.
A good half of the poeple in this hobby are almost entirely irredeemable
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