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?
Overall, I thought scouts were on a pretty good trajectory, not that there wasn’t plenty of room for improvement, but allowing girls and lgbtq people to participate were solid moves
They still need more accountability for the child abuse issues, but that’s probably as much a failing on our laws and policing as it is on the scout organization
And I wish their ties to organizations like the military and NRA weren’t as strong.
It’s kind of hard to have youth shooting sports without working with the NRA though, since they’re the main organization that will train RSOs and such, and without that training I’m pretty sure there’s no way in their hell lawyers and insurance companies would sign off of it. And I do, overall, support that part of the program.
But really it’s the military ties that I don’t like, since their support and resources were what Trump/Hegseth were able to use as leverage against them.
Would also really like them to ditch the religion requirement as well
Yah these two right here, you hit the nail on the head, I haven’t been involved since the 90’s but yah, elegantly put. Not sure where they go from here though…i wonder if the military culture and trump coziness dies with an administration change or if just ends up being another pipeline for young kids to get funneled into the military. I also remember that religion was optional. I did the Ad Altare Dei program, but I don’t remember it being mandatory but that was also several decades ago lol.
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.
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.