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What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad?
  • Dealing with winter. I live in the rural upper Midwest, where winter can hit -20 with whiteout blizzards, week-long power outages, and car-burying snowdrifts. I've seen too many people move here from warmer places and think "I guess I'll buy a warmer coat and a snow shovel", rather than "I should have a backup generator, a backup heat source, a few barrels of spare fuel, a month's worth of stockpiled food, and at least two different pieces of heavy snow-moving machinery tested to be in good working order".

  • Farming @midwest.social eosha @midwest.social
    What's your connection to farming?

    Do you consider yourself a farmer? A full-time row crop farmer? A part-time hobby farmer? Gardener? Homesteader? Food consumer?

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    Farming @midwest.social eosha @midwest.social
    What's your preferred fungicide timing in corn?

    Are you getting it on early to fight tar spot? Later to fight NCLB? Multiple applications? None at all?

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  • Exactly. I've run Linux almost exclusively for more than 20 years. I did the whole roll-my-own thing for a while. Now most of the computers I deal with regularly run mostly-stock Ubuntu.

  • What is something really stupid you purchased that turned out far better than expected?
  • Bug zapper flyswatter. Like you can buy at Harbor Freight for a few bucks. It might not be a terribly effective solution to the overall fly population, but in terms of grim-bloody-vengeance-per-dollar, it's one of the best investments I've ever made.

  • What is keeping you on reddit?
  • Specific subs that don't exist on Lemmy, especially Q&A-type subs with no equivalent (or very few members). Things like AskPlumbers. It'll just take time to build those communities here.

  • science fiction @midwest.social eosha @midwest.social
    Do you consider Marvel Cinematic Universe to be SF?

    It's interesting in that we have things that feel very scifi (GotG, for example) and ones that don't (Luke Cage, Punisher) notionally sharing the same universe.

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