[–] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

Mid-2010s Eagle Scout here. I think Boy Scouts as a whole did teach me a lot of genuinely important skills, both physical and mentally, but that was mostly due in my opinion to my troop being more unconventionally scout-ran compared to the other troops in our council, which leaned more adult-ran. We had pretty much free reign over our itinerary and direction as a troop, so if decided we didn’t want to do something or we wanted to, but didn’t plan for it, it didn’t happen. The inverse with stuff we wanted to do and then it happening was also true. That taught me a lot more about life than any merit badge or rank advancement could.

Unfortunately being an Eagle Scout isn’t something I always bring up when talking about myself. I think part of it is all the scandals that went public like you said, but also another part is, again in my experience, “Boy Scout” carries a message about my ideals and politics that aren’t actually in line with my ideals and politics. Either you were really into nature (minority) or you were really into the wrong side of WWII (majority).

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    As politely as I can, so you do see the point of a folding phone, you just aren’t the market for it. I agree with you that it’s not for me either, but that doesn’t mean they have no point and I recognize the larger screen use case for other people, whatever that means for them.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The first “human” artwork. We will never know what it was or what medium it was in (cave painting? sculpture of some kind?¿?) but my personal belief is that moment is when we started being the humans we would eventually become and it would be so interesting to see what the first person came up with to express their thoughts.

    It was likely a handprint in a cave but still.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    I would not recommend IKEAs KAJPLATS bulbs right now. There is a bug in firmware 1.2.0 (which has been out for ~8 months now) where the bulb will turn a neon Shrek green if you have it set to a very warm white/orange color and the brightness is between 49-99%.

    Really annoying since you know… people tend to like warmer colored lighting in the evening and at night.

    No such issues with their now discontinued Zigbee-only lights or Philips Hue lights.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The Good Place, especially the ending of it.

    Tap for spoilerHow much of our lives now through capitalism are passively “bad actions”, how people can always change and grow still even if it should be the “end” of their journey, how shitty the idea of living forever somewhere in the afterlife actually would be, and becoming comfortable with the idea of death and the whole unknowing nature of it.

    Really a wild piece of work from the same man who made The Office, Parks and Rec, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I ran into very similar problems with my ZBT-2 set to thread and HA Docker container on a mini PC. Turns out I had somehow disabled IPv6 on the mini PC during an update, causing device to HA pairing to fail and for the antenna to keep flashing blue. I would quadruple check that IPv6 is working everywhere it is supposed to be. I thought I had it enabled and was using this all before properly, which is why I never thought to double check until much later down the line.

    With these local setups on varying hardware it could be 1001 different things, but IPv6 networking was the issue in my case.

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    My cassette copy came in yesterday and finally played it today and y’all the hiss and additional distortion add just a little something extra. I didn’t even hear that they had announced a cassette version at the listening parties via the tokens so when these went up for sale on Bleep I was surprised.

    Glad I got a tape deck earlier this year on whim.

    Vinyl, CD, and cassette versions of Inferno by Boards of Canada placed up on a shelf together.
     

    Had a great time at the one local to me! Not the best deep listening environment, but cool to be among other fans. Unfortunately my store ran out of CDs and I had already pre-ordered the LP, but they sold me some of the stocking coming in later and still gave me one of the promo packs.

    The employees at the shop did mention that the Deluxe LP might include a flexi-disc of unknown content, asking if anyone had already received and opened the deluxe version. Anyone get the deluxe early and can confirm this?

     

    I guess another way to say it is “what’s your grailz”, but I’m curious about what records are sought out by people and learning why it’s important to them.

    For me, it’s the Aquarius/Chinook 7” by Boards of Canada. Huge BoC fan and it would be the last record I’d need to complete their official discography on vinyl. Also pretty sure this verison of Aquarius is different than other released versions. Every once in a while it’s up on Discogs for $$$, but if I saw it in person I’d pay whatever the sticker said.

     

    Seriously. It is absolutely dangerous to go the 45mph speed limit they have up there even after they’ve reportedly started handing out warning tickets. Last time I drove up that way I was going 50mph in the right most lane the entire construction zone and I have never white knuckled a drive more than that. I’m not going to go faster and get a ticket because of everyone else but I’m also sure as hell not going to get ran off the road trying to follow the rules either. The best bet might be to avoid this whole area until it’s all said and done…

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