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What are some skills that can be turned into hobbies that would be good for a Leftist to know? (hexbear.net)

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Like the title! I want to cultivate some helpful skills but do so gradually, as a hobbyist. Tempted to get into lockpicking, haha.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Cooking for large groups is an important skill. You can scale this up from large batch/mealprep to small gatherings to large gatherings. I've seen several large gathering situations where it was extremely noticeable when there was just 1 person skilled with this, and also when there wasn't.

Scrapping/dumpster diving. Works best if you have a decent amount of storage space and a cargo-suited vehicle. Tapping the waste stream yields bounties. All sorts of things can be fixed up or sold or even used as-is.

No one's mentioned this yet, and I don't relish it personally, but being good@car is extremely useful. Everybody has car trouble once in a while, and being able to fix it yourself can save you or your comrades up to thousands of dollars a year.