teuast

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[–] teuast@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

that's what i figured as well. all i've been doing is posting about how cops are bad, bikes are good, and i like funk music. real fuckyouinparticular vibes, huh?

[–] teuast@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

agreed. that's why i'm saying it's so important to use it when teaching kids about religion.

[–] teuast@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

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

[–] teuast@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago

no, they're just swords

[–] teuast@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago

margaret thatcher, pat robertson, and rush limbaugh's deaths were enough to make me wish there was a hell for them to go to, but sadly, they just stopped existing, like everyone else

[–] teuast@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] teuast@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, I did. I argued with him for months, and he just kept getting more and more toxic and more and more spiteful.

[–] teuast@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

[–] teuast@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

i don't think so, they have different shaped faces and bodies and different hair colors

[–] teuast@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

go to !fuckcars to learn more!

 

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.

 

Tickle my ivories, baby

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.

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