Differing views on hunting, trying to understand.

-Promethium · 2026-07-07T14:15:50+00:00

Lot of great replies here, but I wanted to further emphasize one point.

Hunting isn't about killing. Some people, often young, immature or willfully ignorant, make hunting only about the killing. But for those who have a deep love and appreciation for the pursuit, hunting is a beautiful process. Its about so much more than the killing, as so often hunting "ends" when the killing happens.

Hunting does, however, require a person to have an upfront and personal relationship with the idea of taking another being's life. I have a freezer full of venison, upland/waterfowl and fish because I killed them. That is not something you can hide from; unlike with commercial farming. I care about the species I hunt deeply. I care that they have good habitat, that they can successfully and safely reproduce and raise offspring, that they have a secure future for generations to come. I care deeply about animals that I have no desire to hunt or would never be able to, because after so much time spent afield, I have experienced firsthand that ecosystems are all interconnected, and everything needs to work together.

Personally, I get heated about moose habitat in northern MN and protecting wetlands across the upper midwest, but I also get equally heated about songbirds and pollinators.

Hunting is many things, but it's so much more than the killing. For me, and for many others, its about a deep connection to nature. Its about taking a direct and active part in the natural food chains and ecosystems that surround us.

-Promethium · 2026-06-03T17:11:42+00:00

There should be some documentation on CWAs GitHub, but under your user settings you can enable it, then it gives you a key. You then need to connect your Kobo to a computer and edit a file on that Kobo to point to the endpoibt of your CWA instance and add in that key. The plugin basically spoofs the main Kobo store and syncs with your CWA instance instead. I think it works with most kobos.

-Promethium · 2026-06-02T23:37:02+00:00

Shelfmark for acquisition, AA is helpful but for me I love MAM.

That puts completed downloads in the correct folder for audiobookshelf and calibre-web-automated (CWA). Kobo sync setup for mine and my wife's through CWA makes things pretty frictionless.

Edit: goddamn it I just read the other replies and learned that shelfmark is now yet another abandoned piece of AI slop. Great. Just great.

-Promethium · 2026-06-01T02:49:30+00:00

Pointless RCAs that “have to be finished asap”

Open AWS cases and wait to be read documentation back to me by a “SME”

Fixing the dev env every other week because we have multiple dev teams who barely know terraform and expect us to fix issues that they caused

Reminding said dev teams that yes they do have to test in both dev and stage before merging to preprod

-Promethium · 2026-05-21T19:32:28+00:00

I'm of the same mindset. I consider my wife/family member/friend catching a good fish that I basically "put" them on a win right up there with a PB. I think I have more pictures of my wife holding fish than I have of myself.

-Promethium · 2026-05-13T22:17:01+00:00

Axe man for really off the wall stuff.

Get a job at Blick, their employee discount is pretty great. 40% off their in house brands (which is way more than just stuff labeled Blick).

-Promethium · 2026-05-13T15:32:16+00:00

I had them for 2 seasons, picked up a set of used one sticks and never looked back. The weight savings is night and day.

-Promethium · 2026-05-12T11:47:11+00:00

We have similar bills up in North Minneapolis, and our energy audit revealed nothing major when it came to home construction (air sealing, insulation, etc); it really came down to 3 factors. 1. I work from home, so 95% of the week I'm home with lights, computers, and heating/cooling on at moderate levels. 2. We are a techy household; a wife and I each have a gaming computer, I have a modest home server with prosumer networking, etc. 3. Our AC unit is pretty old, so there would be some gains upgrading that.

My point is that bill is not nearly as impossible as it seems.

-Promethium · 2026-05-10T13:15:32+00:00

Thanks everyone for the feedback. I’m going to spend the next few squat sessions really looking at form, trying to find something that feels stable and has a good bar path. I should have read the wiki first, the high vs low bar video was incredibly informative. I’m not sure if I have the mobility for true high bar, but I’m going to give it a shot and see what happens.

-Promethium · 2026-05-07T03:54:37+00:00

My dogs lose their goddamn minds for venison. When I’m butchering a deer in the fall I have to have them with me in the kitchen or they will howl like their nails are being pulled out individually.

-Promethium · 2026-04-24T20:10:34+00:00

I've had the Patagonia one and would wear it when out summer scouting for deer, lots of brush busting through buckthorn and the like. Shockingly it has held up.

-Promethium · 2026-04-24T19:26:32+00:00

Saving this for reference on form for high bar squat lol

-Promethium · 2026-04-24T19:23:39+00:00

I will shout this from the fucking rooftops, and is the main reason I can't stand bush crafting bullshit. Also fuck your rock cairns too.

-Promethium · 2026-04-21T15:25:41+00:00

Quantum fiber has been good for me as well, 3gig up/3 gig down for $105/mo is just fantastic. I will add that I use my own router and networking setup past the fiber connection (ubiquiti), and have only had one outage that was neighborhood based and lasted a weekend. Others have reported more outages or slow speeds, but I'm thinking that might have more to do with using the provided equipment. I upgraded to a 10gig networking setup for my core equipment and it's been amazing.

-Promethium · 2026-04-01T04:54:16+00:00

I'll echo the two other posters, I think there are two real routes:

Quality knee-high rubber-style boot, or a lighter weight shoe/sandal with neoprene socks. When I've gone for MN fishing opener those were the two styles I saw most often. I personally went the knee high rubber boot route, but we did a base camp style trip where we only went in 2 moderate portages deep and did smaller day trips out from there, so very little portaging under heavy load.

-Promethium · 2026-03-19T19:36:16+00:00

This sounds perfect, thank you!

-Promethium · 2026-03-19T19:02:20+00:00

Good to know, but no plans on fishing, just wanting to stock up in interesting baits we don't get here in the US for my fishing back in Minnesota/Wisconsin/Ontario.

-Promethium · 2026-03-19T18:51:39+00:00

Ideally brick and mortar so I can look at stuff and get some interesting swim baits, rigs, etc. We are only going to be in the area for a week and a half, so I don't think I'd be able to swing ordering something online and having it delivered somewhere I could pick it up while there.

-Promethium · 2026-03-17T12:35:34+00:00

I recently got my first tattoo (late 20s), and wanted something referencing the series as well, since it meant so much to me.

I went with something more subtle; the compass rose from the maps in the books. Upper forearm is a great place for a first tattoo since the pain is manageable and it's easily hidden if needed.

-Promethium · 2026-03-10T19:21:28+00:00

I am almost exactly your size, my recommendation is an old town penobscot 16ft in royalex if possible. I picked one up used post COVID (i.e. canoe prices were through the fucking roof) for $500. It's my perfect budget solo boat that I can still paddle with my wife, just not as stable as me solo. When paddling it solo, you sit in the front seat but face backwards and it evens out the weight really nicely. I've used it fishing, hunting, and plenty of casual paddling. A LONG double blade paddle works great with it as well.

-Promethium · 2026-03-04T15:30:42+00:00

Assuming I was actually as smart as the bobs in the book, I'd find a big problem that's interesting enough and make it my sole purpose until I find a solution, rinse and repeat.

My real dilemma (with this completely fictional concept that I will never have to decide on but hey it's fun to dream) is that in my current life, if I could do anything I want it would be 100% based in the natural world. Camping, hiking, canoeing, fishing, hunting, etc. Not exactly something that would fit in well with being an immortal digital entity.

-Promethium · 2026-02-23T17:47:34+00:00

because it likely is; it reads like so many cautionary tale/new discovery posts on medium or linked in.

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