For me it’s probably speech therapy and everything pertaining to that. I’m yet to encounter someone on here who is one apart from me (in training).
What about you?
Insects and arachnids, although I’ve noticed I know more about those than the average person in general.
I’ve loved them ever since I can remember. My mom said I used to watch aphids as a toddler and she bought me a magnifying glass because she was afraid I would hurt my eyes. I’ve posted pictures of my green lynx spider friend living in my garden and folks online and off didn’t know they can grow their legs back or that non black widows eat their mates. I’ve also used terms like pedipalps, cephalothorax, or mentioned how to tell the difference between male and female spiders or mantises when casually talking about both, then I always have someone ask me to explain what I’m talking about.
My partner knew I liked insects and arachnids when we first got together, but I don’t think he realized how much until I built a raised bed garden and started taking lots of pictures of all the critters that show up. I have SO MANY pics of my green lynx spider friend.
Could you post a few? I’d love to see them!
These are the 3 posts I’ve made about my green lynx spider friend. I first saw her as a tiny little thing missing 2 legs, then watched her grow and catch bees and earwigs. Now she’s significantly larger with her egg sac all fat and happy. She even changed color recently to match the plant she’s on.
https://lemmy.world/post/34022565
Lovely! Subscribed to the comm. I’m an arachnid enjoyer as well, I can proudly say that I can sex a tarantula exuviae XD
That’s awesome! I love tarantulas, they are big cute fuzzballs.
Oh wow! Yeah, that’s a gorgeous animal!
Thank you for sharing those beautiful pictures!
You’re very welcome! I’m just waiting on the eggs to hatch and see all the little babies 😍
Get pictures when they arrive!
Cell Biology and molecularbiology (but i didn’t finish my degree), PC Games (i’ve been playing PC Games since the late 80’s), Piracy(see the answer before lol) and PC building (I’ve never bought a pc as a whole in my whole life except Laptops). Probably 56k Modems too, since i worked in costumer support for multiple ISPs - i still remember a lot of init strings for those and for different manufacturers, which is completely useless today lol
I don’t think the average lemming scuba dives as there’s a pretty small scuba community here.
Roller skating. In that community my skill level is nothing special. But it’s not a common hobby to have at all these days (at least where I am) for the average person.
I used to roller skate a lot in my younger days. Took my son to the roller rink a few a times and found out I could still do it pretty well.
Nice. When I am teaching students in our intro class that everyone takes it once regardless of skill, I can always tell when someone has skated as a kid (or done other sports like skiing) even if it’s been decades for them - it’s just much easier to return to than to start from scratch like I did.
Intro class? Shit, my intro class was strapping on skates with metal wheels and being let loose on my neighbors driveway. My younger sister had non-metal wheels probably because that what was found used. We didn’t have a lot of money at that time.
More than the average Lemming? Probably spiders. I’m far from an expert but I know more than your average person.
Should we ask you spider facts, Vig?
I work in Web dev so there’s that. But also the roman empire and etymology.
Education: Specifically how to work with and teach people with special needs.
My hometown: History, legends and geography.
Diving: A lot about physiology, gases, underwater species.
Unimportant fun facts: No idea why but I tend to remember all the useless stuff i read
Bad day to be into computers
I once installed linux…
where’s the rest of the limerick, OP?
I once installed the OS of Linux,
But speedy, it definitely wasn’t.
The year '94, a 56k net install,
Mom please hang up the phone this instant.
Herpetology is my thing
I’m starting to feel a bit confident in my lotr knowledge these days, but I’m well aware I’m no scholar on the topic.
optical discs
Guns for sure. I’m a very amateur gunsmith and love ordering crappy used guns online and fixing them up. Stretches the limits of my mechanical, restoration and craft abilities.
Nuance.
Sound design, mixing, and mastering audio.
Please prove me wrong, I’m so lonely.
How about mixing and mastering on tape? 👀
I hate working in the box
Never had the opportunity, but I love me some nice, warm, tape saturation
Animal Crossing.
I’ve only been playing the newest one for about a year (New Horizons, on the Switch), but since I’ve come to Lemmy a couple months ago, I’ve followed all of the AC communities I could find. None of them are active. Therefore, I can surmise that no one on Lemmy cares enough about AC to talk about it, so it’s a fair guess at least, that I know more about the game and its inner workings than the average Lemmy user.
I could say that about any number of fandoms I’ve been in that do not have a home on Lemmy. The band ONE OK ROCK for instance. Or the anime series Sword Art Online. Sure, there may be a few Lemmy users who know a thing or two, maybe more than I do, but people aren’t coming together to talk about these things. Their interests lie elsewhere.
