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What have y’all been having fun with recently? (lemmy.world)
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Please no doomer responses.

I’ve been playing my guitar a fair bit. Relearning the solo dem another brick in the wall pt 2 because I never learned it right whe I was in high school and really wanna get that 5 fret bend down right. Havent learned a solo in a while, pretty easy reintro to solos.

Been getting my old anet 8 3d printer working again for a project for my girlfriend. Pretty fun iterativeprocess.

Also fucking around with retro games on an old pi I had sitting around. Contra hard corps is hella fun.

So what do you like doing? What have you been having fun with? What do you like?

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[–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

AFAIK, the religious awards have always been optional. I think only one guy in my troop ever bothered to earn it. Officially as long as you're willing to say you believe in some sort of higher power that satisfies their religious requirement, but some troops can end up being pretty Bible-thumpy

Unfortunately they've always been pretty cozy with the military, being an eagle scout gets you a little bit of a rank or pay bump or something if you enlist, and they lend the scouts some equipment and manpower when needed for big events like the jamboree, so that pipeline has already kind of existed for a long time and it's sort of on-line with what Baden-Powell Intended the scout movement to be- a tool to help prepare kids for military service.

But of course that's not really what I took away from scouting, and it just doesn't really feel like what it should be about in today's world to me, so I wouldn't mind seeing that relationship falling apart.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago

    Yah good points, I guess it all depends on where you are physically at in scouting...location makes a difference. I must of been childishly naive at the time as I never put two and two together to connect the dots on the military pipeline...the more I think about it though, it makes sense.

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