ik this is a shitpost but that's like the worst possible way to handle that situation
i'm like a third-generation none, my parents were both raised secular and their marriage was officiated by a guy from the a.h.a., but i had some christian classmates in like kindergarten or first grade (public school in california) and i sorta half remember asking my mom some question about something i'd heard them say at some point or another, and what she did was she explained to me (in 5yo detail, anyway) what christianity even was, which i didn't really understand at that point, and that was enough to make it clear to me how silly it all was.
one of the easiest ways to figure out who to trust, imo, is looking for who can most accurately and fairly describe what their opponents' argument is. trying to hide it away from a kid who's looking for answers is just going to make it more intriguing. going over it in detail makes it clear what the problems are.
e: damn, who'd i piss off
I'd take that as inevitable period at this point.
pretty sure several exmormons on the internet have either proposed or confirmed that this is something they're going for
i mean, having an extra pair of arms coming off your boobs could be useful
there are so many people they could have chosen, and yet they managed to pick almost the worst possible example. they could have even said george washington carver instead if they just really had to type the words "george washington" that bad.
Oh, I did. I argued with him for months, and he just kept getting more and more toxic and more and more spiteful.
Guy was my best friend in middle school. We reconnected after I graduated from college, played and beat L4D and L4D2 together. Then he started sending me political memes, and they were all fascist.
I tried to reason with him, but then he refused to engage with anything that was longer than like a page, or any video/audio source longer than about five minutes, but didn't seem to have any problem sending me stuff way longer than that.
I still wonder if there was more I could have done. But I just didn't need that in my life. I'm not some hero, I'm a downwardly-mobile working-class schlub who's pretty good at playing piano and riding a bike. I shouldn't be responsible for dragging this dipshit back from the depths of fascism just because he sat next to me in seventh grade history class, and honestly, with some of the things he claimed to believe, I probably didn't even want him on my side anymore.
That's what I tell myself, anyway.
we've been saying kissinger can't possibly have much time left for decades now
i don't think so, they have different shaped faces and bodies and different hair colors
very little if any of what i said was subjective, and everything i said that was controversial has decades of data behind it. i don't think you know what "subjective" means. maybe you would if you'd paid attention in public school
neither he nor anybody else here has called you a nazi, but if you're so used to being called a nazi that you just assume anything you say is going to get you labeled as one, maybe you should have a think about why. if you met an asshole today, you met an asshole, but if you meet assholes all day every day, either you're a proctologist or you're the asshole.
anyway, to your point, the reason parents don't get to decide how public school educates their kids is because kids need to learn about evolution in order to understand any of biology, they need to learn about american slavery in order to understand anything about why this country is the way it is, they need to learn about objectivity vs. subjectivity and how statistics work in order to detect when they're being lied to, by, say, fox news, and they need to learn about how their own bodies work so that they don't get and spread stds, don't have unwanted pregnancies and drop out of college, don't think they're freaks if their gender or sexuality doesn't fit neatly into one of the standard boxes, and do know what sexual abuse is and what to do if it happens to them. and parents claiming parents' rights on education are always and only ever doing it because they want their kids to be ignorant on all of those subjects, with all the negative consequences that follow from that. and that was also something the nazis wanted, hence why they burned down and destroyed the work of the institute for sexual research, as well as a bunch of other stuff.
so yeah, i'm not going to call you a nazi, but i am going to say that the things you argue for align pretty closely with things the nazis argued for.
Very true. I was keeping my scope to just my personal experience, but if you expand how you look at the country to include things that have been done in its name, then we live in a country whose government has systematically oppressed people and aided in genocides, fascist coups, and so many other terrible things throughout the world, and all of that pushes me to be actively the opposite of proud of it. But that also raises the question of to what extent does being proud of your country entail being proud of its government, and that's some political theory shit I don't have the straws for right now.
This seems like a pretty nebulous concept with a lot of wiggle room for interpretation.
Like, am I proud of having been born in the specific place I was and having the parents that I do? I ain't had shit to do with that. I'm American by accident. I'm no more proud of being American than I am of being 5'10": it's just a box I fit into, honestly somewhat uncomfortably. I'm proud of the work I do and the achievements I've... achieved, but nothing I've done would be impossible anywhere else. If anything, there are parts of the world where what I've achieved would have been easier to do and where my preferred lifestyle is more widely accepted (for context, this refers to that I don't like cars, don't own or want to own one, and choose to get around by bike and transit instead) (a friend of my dad's recently told him that I "need a European girlfriend" because "American women don't understand guys like him:" for the record, I've never met this woman).
Anyway, pointless rambling aside, America is just one country out of hundreds in the world, and I don't see why I should feel all nationalistic about having been born in it.
Bottom right is cool in a vacuum, but there's like... a shade of swastika to it? I dunno, maybe that's just extremely online of me, but I'd be a little hesitant on it for that reason as compared to middle bottom.
The one that strikes my fancy the most is middle right, maybe just because it reminds me a little bit of Strava. Maybe the Fediverse colors could be applied to that one in some way, maybe teal and blue on top, red and orange on bottom, and purple as a fill? Or blue and purple on top with teal as a fill. In my head that looks cool, but in practice it might look like total ass. Worth trying anyway imo.
I've posted a pic of this guitar before, but it's a 1995 Yamaha Pacifica 102S that I recently got used for cheap. It's my first T-type and I've been having a blast playing it, but like the video says, it came with saddle height screws that were too long, so I decided to try modding it. This was also the first time I've really done any tinkering with one of my guitars.
This is a document that compiles everything that currently exists regarding The After Times, which is a setting I made for a DND campaign. It’s set in an alternate Earth that diverges from ours at the 1980 presidential election, then has aliens. For the record, I came up with the plague plotline...
It reads like it was written in about April of 2020, but I actually wrote the skeleton of it for a TTRPG party I was setting up with some friends while I was unemployed back in 2019, although I did come up with the title after people started saying “the before times” to refer to pre-Covid and I put together a lot of the details (including the existence of Covid in the alternate history timeline) through the shutdowns.
It’s been a back-burner type of project for a while since I haven’t actually run a campaign in it in about two years, but since I had the materials for it, I figured I’d share it.
If you have feedback, please pass it along! And if you want to use it as inspiration for your own campaigns, feel free, as long as you let me know what you come up with.
(copied from my other post)
In addition to teaching lots of private lessons and directing three teenage performance groups, I also direct an adult band, which currently has eight people between about 30 and 70 in it. I'm 28 and my codirector is in his 30s, but this week, he was out, so the school owner guy, who's in his 40s, subbed for him, making me the youngest person in the room by a margin of at least ten years.
In past iterations of this adult band, we've had some non-parent members, but right now, everyone in the band is a parent, and the owner guy also is, so this past week, I was also the only non-parent in the room, so naturally, everybody was passing around Father's Day well-wishes. And inevitably, one of the moms asked me, "what about you, teuast? Do you have any kids?" So of course I said no, and she said "Oh, not yet."
Not yet. Lol. I have a vasectomy and a girlfriend with a bisalp.
I did tell my girlfriend about it and she was suitably derisive, but in the moment I just let it slide off me. Nothing to be gained from explaining what's going on with my balls to a bunch of geezers at my work who I'm not sleeping with. And it's not going to come up again for at least another year, because, again, at work.
This is a document that compiles everything that currently exists regarding The After Times, which is a setting I made for a DND campaign. It’s set in an alternate Earth that diverges from ours at the 1980 presidential election, then has aliens. For the record, I came up with the plague plotline...
It reads like it was written in about April of 2020, but I actually wrote the skeleton of it for a TTRPG party I was setting up with some friends while I was unemployed back in 2019, although I did come up with the title after people started saying "the before times" to refer to pre-Covid and I put together a lot of the details (including the existence of Covid in the alternate history timeline) through the shutdowns.
It's been a back-burner type of project for a while since I haven't actually run a campaign in it in about two years, but since I had the materials for it, I figured I'd share it.
If you have feedback, please pass it along! And if you want to use it as inspiration for your own campaigns, feel free, as long as you let me know what you come up with.
I found the Guitars community pretty easily and was excited to join it, but didn't find one for my primary instrument, keys. I figured I couldn't be the only one in that position, so I set one up. If you like keys-based music, stop on by! (hey, that was a drawbar organ joke)
I hope I did this correctly. I'm new to Lemmy and not really sure what I'm doing, and tbf it kinda feels a bit like the Wild West out here post-Spezhole, so please let me know if I mucked it up somehow.
I was coming off my gravel ride today and heading to work when I saw a roadie ahead of me, and so I put my head down and tried to close the gap for a bit of an interval effort. He was really moving, so I had to really work for it, but I did get on his wheel eventually. After I'd had a chance to catch my breath, I came up next to him and said something like "hope you didn't mind me catching a wheel for a second there," which he didn't.
Then he commented on my dirty gravel bike and asked what the trail conditions are like in the area, because he'd been just on the road for a few months and hadn't hit the dirt in a while, and so I filled him in. He thanked me, we complimented each other's bikes, and then our routes split and we went our separate ways.
It was just a nice, friendly interaction of the type that you can't have on a freeway. And imagine, if bike commuting was commonplace, we could all be having those kinds of interactions all the time. Instead, we're all isolated from each other in metal boxes on wheels, and that sucks.
Casiopea is one of my favorite bands right now and Minoru Mukaiya is a god amongst keyboardists.
I covered an underrated gem that even Bill Wurtz fans sleep on. I hope I did it justice.
Full disclosure: this is my band and this is shameless self-promotion, but we just played a set at Bottom Of The Hill in San Francisco, and it was super cool. I'm on keys, and I had also just played drums on the opening band's set, so I was both a little razzled and a lot tired, but I still played OK for the most part. Our guitarist and singer were the real stars of the show, though.
Also, hi! Just found Lemmy. /u/spez can suck it.