BJJ is one of the most “useful” when it comes to actually fighting (along with boxing).

Karate and TKD are more of an art/discipline. A well trained karate fighter will very likely outmove an untrained assailant, but someone moderately trained in BJJ will likely be able to subdue/get away from a very well karate or TKD fighter.

Honestly, BJJ is an amazing skill to have in a pinch, and it trains you in grappling with opponents that have a size/weight disparity.

Not all gyms/dojos use belts, even in BJJ. BJJ belts follow a pretty good progression based on skill, whereas karate (can’t say for TKD, never trained in it personally) often relies on performance of kata in order to progress to the next belt. Kata is choreographed movements, it’s more like a dance that you practice than an actual measure of ability to spar/fight.

If OP wants to get their kid into a fighting sport that’s fun and relatively safe, they can pick any discipline. If they want the added bonus of their kid being much better equipped to defend themself from a real aggressor they would do best getting them into BJJ, boxing, and then wrestling once they’re in middle/high school.

I would personally avoid boxing for my own kids due to the repeated head trauma and risk of fractures, but it’s the best real world striking training you’ll get, at least in the USA. BJJ and wrestling help you immensely once you’re on the ground, which is where 90% of street fights go within the first couple seconds, but a real, dangerous, fight is often over before it starts and countering a sucker punch or landing a decisive one yourself before the opponent can react is often the most important thing.

One of the downsides of BJJ is that it’s culturally tied to MMA in the USA now, which means that if OPs kid does BJJ for a while in their youth they’ll be more inclined to get into MMA in early adulthood, which is not something I would want for my children. But it’s a great skill regardless.

As much as I don’t care for Tolkien’s voice I would second the recommendation for LOTR simply because after you read it you’ll see how many other writers, movies, and games pretty much pulled from the genre that he defined with his writing.

Here’s some random sci fi recommendations:

The Foundation trilogy

Pandora’s Star (and the sequel Judas Unchained)

Starship Troopers (nothing like the movie, but the movie is great also)

Dune (starts pretty slowly but if you can make it through that, it’s amazing)

I, Robot

On Shakespeare, it’s REALLY hard to read, because SO much of it is dependent on understanding the politics and context of the time it was written. I think another poster recommended reading a script with footnotes - to me that’s a minimum. Shakespeare is AMAZING if you take the time to actually study why it’s so amazing. Most people who read it are introduced to it in a language arts class in middle school or sometime, they hate it, and never go back. There’s so many freaking hilarious or just plain clever parts of his plays, he was a freaking genius, but it’s lost to history unless you seek it out.

It’s like people 500 years in the future trying to watch South Park, or Saturday Night Live. It will make no sense to them, like at all.

It’s not the same, but have you considered listening to audio books? They’re a great way to absorb books at first if you’re not a huge reader. You can pair them with the physical book so that if you start to lose motivation you can switch to the audio book in the car or something and keep yourself hooked.

I listen to podcasts to get to sleep. I have some earbuds that I can use single-sided, and either of the sides can connect on their own (doesn’t have a master/slave connection where only one actually connects to phone and slave connects to master)

I go to bed with one or the other. During the night I might switch the bud to the other side, both sides can fit in either ear falling out and the sound is fine, even though they’re designed for only one ear. YMMV with that.

But this is the best way I’ve found.

There’s little Bluetooth speakers or vibrator bars that are designed to sit underneath your pillow and they’re quiet enough that a partner won’t hear it, but you can. I’ve tried those as well but you have to have your head on the pillow in a specific way for them to work and I don’t like being “confined” to that specific position.

I lay on my back and both sides so this works best for me.

Most already open in 800 open browser tabs.

I feel personally attacked by this

Ya got me, I’m super into recycling over here

That same target audience would be the least equipped to install a new drive or handle any problems that do come up. How many John Q public people have even opened up their laptop to dust it out?

Problems might be rare, but if I am selling a product (in this case new storage with Linux on it) I need to be able to charge enough to cover all my overhead. Every time I sell it and it doesn’t work out of the box that’s time spent helping the customer, more shipping/return costs, or both. Markup has to cover all that, and I’d guess that it’s not viable as a business model to charge a high enough price to deal with all the random static from computer illiterate people.

I get what you’re saying but I just don’t see it being a viable business strategy to sell this product to that target audience.

Anyone who knows enough to seek out and purchase a Linux OS drive can just download and install it themselves.

Hmmmmmm… I think the hardware bugs might be rare, but common enough to make this a tricky product to sell consistently to the unknown masses.

Also, I think storage partitioning could be a problem; assuming some number of people would have other drives that they had OS/media together, or just separate storage with files they wanted to keep. Those would be NTFS, which can read/write on Linux but you won’t have the best compatibility with Linux program execution (depending on a ton of factors).

Oh dang I remember that

I don’t know. Personally I don’t need a “place” to go visit someone that is deceased, but I have very close family that needs that place in order to grieve. Pets or human family, they need to be buried and have a marker.

When I lived in a more urban environment the only way to achieve that was through graveyards/pet cemeteries. With some land and the option I’d rather bury people at home now, but lots of people don’t have that luxury, but still have the need to “visit” deceased loved ones, and know where they “are.”

I’m not one of those people, sounds like you aren’t either, but that doesn’t mean that a graveyard doesn’t serve a useful purpose for the majority of people.

Could they be more efficient? Sure, maybe. But honestly do they really take up THAT much space?

Definitely fits the unpopular opinion tag, but I think you’ve got some blinders on your empathy if you don’t see their value.

Agree in principle. Haven’t seen Yesterday, but Across the Universe soundtrack is my go to Beatles cover album.

Lists of real passwords are very useful for helping attackers crack passwords. Lists can be hashed with various algorithms and then the hashes compared against exposed password hashes. If a hash matches then you know the password, without having to actually brute force the password in order to try and match the hash.

Unique, strong passwords are the most safe. Reused passwords are for sure weaker if you use the same login/email along with them, but even if you use the same password with unique usernames, it’s still less secure than unique passwords.

I can use pishadoot everywhere on the internet (bad for other reasons, but as an example) and if I use unique passwords everywhere, my accounts aren’t any less secure, they’re just all easily tied together. If I use unique usernames everywhere but reuse the same password, in theory ALL of my logins are now more vulnerable to attack.

The Princess Bride

… Sorry. It’s just not good.

Thank you so much!

I hadn’t really considered how much of the knowledge is local. That makes sense though, in a duh why didn’t I already think of that kind of way.

I’m not ready to get started yet but I like reading about potential future hobbies or things I just find generally interesting, such as bee keeping, so the general knowledge will be fine for now.

Hello! I have considered getting into bee keeping as a retirement thing but I don’t know a good resource to start learning.

Are there any good online communities you can recommend, forums, etc?

This is probably the best explanation I’ve seen so far and really helped me actually understand what it means when we talk about “weights” for LLMs.

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GIVE ME BACK ASHERON’S CALL!!

Patron/vassal pyramid scheme experience gain system that incentivized helping out less experienced players because you got a % of their XP (at no loss to them) and their vassals, etc etc…

Back in the day when you didn’t have an online guide for everything. World was HUGE and there was no real fast travel, but there was a crazy portal network. Random portals in the middle of nowhere that would dump you out at other random parts of the map. Portals exiting dungeons randomly take you somewhere else. I had a spiral ring notebook of portal coords and sometimes to get somewhere it was 7-8 hops through a few dungeons… Or hours running across the map trying to not get janked by high level mobs or other PVP players.

That era of MMO will never live again, and it’s a damn shame.

I still listen to this at least weekly, the album is in my regular gym rotation because

A) it’s hard for me to listen to lyric heavy music and count reps correctly (brain no work good during ugga dugga) and

B) It’s amazing.

You need zero poker experience to play it. It’s not a poker game at all, just uses poker hands for scoring, and if you don’t know them they’re all displayed if you hit esc.