Afaik, and I've looked, there's no single "varmint" that is more or less likely to carry rabies.

Unless you consider opossum a varmint, they do have a lower chance to carry it, but I've never thought it them as a problematic species in the same way as other critters that share spaces with humans. Like, most possums aren't going to eat your chickens or your cat, they aren't predators in that way, and they don't eat crops with any regularity. They'll eat the hell out of eggs or small birds, but even that isn't a super common thing because they have to be short on food to go where humans are active like you would be if you raised chickens.

But the usual suspects, raccoons, foxes, coyote, that kind of critter don't have any special proclivity for it, or unusual physiology to reduce infection rates.

I went digging after we had a local "invasion" of coyote years ago, and then again in 2023 when we got chickens. Wanted to know if there were any I should be more trigger happy towards in that regard, and there isn't.

Thing is, if one or another of the usual varmints is at a high population in your area, the chances go up that they'll have a reservoir of it because there's more proximity, and more of them out there messing with other critters that might infect them. But it isn't because they're a fox or whatever, it's about population density. Iirc, and I didn't dig too deep, foxes got a reputation for it because their habitats overlap with so many other species that more people saw foxes with rabies, but it didn't represent anything unique to foxes.

I was requested to copy a comment I made from the crosspost of this, for anyone looking for resources.

Since it's been a couple of days with no first hand responses, I've got a second hand one.

There's a brand, en femme, that does a poly/lycra blend that is pretty much the default for a couple of people I know. The fabric is designed to wick and dry quickly. Thing is, the people I know that have undies by en femme are more gym/yoga oriented than hiking/outdoors, , so it may not be right for that, comfort wise.

I know the polyester part isn't what you asked for, but when the fabric is made right and blended it can actually work right. Some of my shirts back when I was lifting a lot used a poly/lycra blend, and it really does wick very well, which is key to staying both cool and not giving odor a chance to set up shop. But that may not apply to undies for hiking, so I'm not certain if it would fit your needs.

Sure!

Once you start asking for money, you run into risk. Most of the time, publishers and other rights holders don't mess with fanfic, but when they do, it's almost always because someone made that mistake.

Tbh, it doesn't even matter how much you lift in that regard. You could win the resulting lawsuit over your mouse with gloves named Brickey, but you've still had the hassles, and you can't predict with full certainly which IP holders are going to be aggressive like that.

Most likely, they'd cease and desist you first, but that's not a guarantee.

I'd just leave it as being for your kids, and if you want to share it, don't even ask for money at all.

Kinda

The problem is that you have to either divest identifiable parts of the original, and do so in a way that's so severe it essentially becomes something other than fanfic; or you have to be doing custom writing on commission.

You aren't going to get many commissions for standard fanfic though, so I hope you're good at erotica.

Sadly, the market for that collapsed hard about fifteen years ago, and the prices dropped you insulting levels as well.

Regular fanfic, at best you'd get a trickle. Erotica, believe it or not, used to be a niche for not just fanfic, but in general for writers willing to do a one-off. The problem was/is that it's a one time sale, no royalties. You do the job, hand it over, collect the final part of the pay, and that's it.

Unlike regular fanfic, the erotica fanfic, you could charge serious bucks because it was a seller's market.

Like, typically, if you're getting 50 cents a word for your custom writing, you're doing very well indeed. On average, you're looking at under half that. But custom erotica? A dollar plus per word was not rare. At one point, I wouldn't waste my time for anything under that, it just wasn't worth my time, even if all they wanted was something quick and easy.

You get a request for something novella length, and you're looking at some decent chunks of change, with the right customer. You gotta think, a novel can be maybe 50k words at the low end. Novellas are less than half that, but still over 15k words.

You have to back off on your per word rate with bigger stuff like that, but $10,000 for a decent length, multi chapter story happened back then. You get a customer that really likes your work, and you might get requests for that level of thing yearly, or twice a year, with requests for shorter work thrown in between. The car I have now, I bought off the sale of one of the longer pieces I did, but it wasn't fanfic.

But nowadays? You aren't getting that. Nowhere close. There's too much free out there, even if the quality is lower than you'd get with someone that's practiced at the craft. Last time I got a request, it would have come out to five cents a word, and that's a fucking joke. Not worth the time and effort, even for a short story a few pages long.

You might be able to set up on patreon and get a trickle going though. I don't personally know anyone making a living that way, but it apparently can be enough to be worth doing in your spare time, if you'd be writing anyway.

Ngl, I like it

Since it's been a couple of days with no first hand responses, I've got a second hand one.

There's a brand, en femme, that does a poly/lycra blend that is pretty much the default for a couple of people I know. The fabric is designed to wick and dry quickly. Thing is, the people I know that have undies by en femme are more gym/yoga oriented than hiking/outdoors, , so it may not be right for that, comfort wise.

I know the polyester part isn't what you asked for, but when the fabric is made right and blended it can actually work right. Some of my shirts back when I was lifting a lot used a poly/lycra blend, and it really does wick very well, which is key to staying both cool and not giving odor a chance to set up shop. But that may not apply to undies for hiking, so I'm not certain if it would fit your needs.

Who said anything about paranoid and mentally unwell, or are you just trying to be an asshole?

Damn, I can hear the wheezing from here

That's a lotta fucking Newports

Heck yeah :)

Wellllll, ngl, I had a thing for redheads partially because of her.

Fuck, how did I miss that? My bad!

Yeah, that essentially negates my entire comment, sorry. That is fucked up. That's way outside of what an admin should be poking their nose into without some serious evidence to back it up and the willingness to provide it here since this community is on that instance.

Again, my apologies for misreading. I'd blame my dyslexia, but the word admin doesn't fall afoul of that, I just wasn't paying enough attention.

It's your butt, isn't it.

Not about the size, it's about the capabilities of the search. Most hundreds have traces of drugs on them. One drug dog, if they aren't sealed well, and the search is over.

Besides, I'm just amazed that the comment section wasn't full of people saying they'd put it in their secure stash. My main one isn't scent secure, but that's beside the point. I have multiple and I'm genuinely surprised that my fellow lemmings aren't similarly equipped what with the degree of privacy and security conscious users here.

Eh, the part about your pre-join discussion is irrelevant as any given community may well have more restrictive standards than the instance, and it's a benefit that admins not intervene in cases that aren't egregious and/or in violation of instance policies.

That being said, I think you got it right, a 2 hour ban is so borderline as anything at all, that it doesn't merit much of anything here. It was definitely unnecessary, but it's so minor that calling it power tripping seems dubious.

Has the mod in question said anything about the temp ban beyond what's shown? That's just personal curiosity more than anything relevant, tbh.

My take? If the action of a single mod is "chilling" your use of the rest of the instance, that's a you thing entirely.

Yeah, the action was unnecessary, but it was also effectively meaningless, so it's one of those things you just shrug off and move on while blocking the community.

Edit: leaving this up for context with the rest of the thread, but I missed a very important fact, that this was an admin action, not a mod action on a community. Ignore the fuck out of this drivel, please.

It was a good show, and parts of it hold up well as casual entertainment

I don't think you understand what automod actually did. Nor what the currently available lemmy version does.

Probably tool making.

It would take time to get back into it, but I was turning out decent knives, spear points, and arrowheads for a while there. Nothing that would blow anyone's mind as art, but pretty enough and usable.

One of those things I did just because I wanted to see if I could, and it turned out to be really relaxing and enjoyable. Arthritis took the enjoyable and relaxing part away, so I stopped, but on a survival level, I could get the job done well enough to make up for being a bottom tier hunter.

Maybe vance needs his testicles repealed

The fuck did anyone expect?