[-] Pilkins@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

"mass shooting" usually means one shooter and multiple people hit. So a drunk, mad guy at a party who pulls out a gun and shoots 3 people will count towards the number but probably not make it past local news. Not every mass shooting is a school shooting or terrorist attack, but those get the most attention.

[-] Pilkins@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago

In their minds, this is loving your enemy. Because Christians are right and everyone else is wrong. So forcing your beliefs on people is a good thing because you're saving their souls.

[-] Pilkins@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Keep working, drinking, and sleeping. Not much else to do no matter who wins.

[-] Pilkins@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

There is a fan running and then the actual microwave itself. If you lower the power setting, you can hear the fan stay on consistently but hear the microwave shut off and on. If the power is at 100%, the microwave runs the entire time.

[-] Pilkins@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago

I wanted to change my parents' wifi password to something everyone in the family would remember instead of the random default gibberish password.

My dad said no because it took the Comcast guy a long time to set up, so I'd probably mess up the work he did... I had worked in IT for 7 years at that point.

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submitted 11 months ago by Pilkins@lemmy.world to c/bluegrass@lemmy.world

This is kind of a rant and a discussion. I've been getting more into bluegrass recently and keep getting demotivated by how niche it is. I've loved bluegrass since I was a teen, but now that I'm actively trying to play it, it's very demoralizing.

Granted I live in a more urban area, but it's very hard to find jams, and even just other players, around unless I drive at least an hour.

It also feels like there aren't many "masters" to study. For guitar it's basically Tony Rice, Bryan Sutton, and Clarence White.

Then to top it off, even the "big" acts still aren't well known so your chance of jamming to some Billy Strings or Molly Tuttle is next to nil. Bluegrass players only want the standards, non bluegrass players won't even know the artist at all.

I do hope this newer generation makes the genre a little less rigid, but even then, that'll be 10-20 years down the line. Anyway, rant over. Figured it was worth posting just for some activity here.

[-] Pilkins@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

Maybe if you're doing something majorly illegal, don't piss off your neighbors and draw attention to yourself. Like how when you're driving with drugs you always use your signal and follow the speed limit.

Guess it's good she didn't have that much sense and got herself busted.

[-] Pilkins@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

I love imagining him being legitimately confused every night over this. Like, "I don't get it! I said Biden was evil 3 times, said I'd support Trump, AND am not woke. Why don't they like me???"

[-] Pilkins@lemmy.world 109 points 1 year ago

There's a book called How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler that covers this stuff. Don't think it's comprehensive enough to actually invent everything from scratch, but still a fun read.

[-] Pilkins@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It just says "groupa boykissera" in the Russian alphabet. Transliteration.

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[-] Pilkins@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

Not even just the highest rate. The highest number of incarcerated people! Countries with over 1b people still have fewer prisoners, total.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/incarceration-rates-by-country

[-] Pilkins@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago

It's because a lot of boomers think everything they see on the internet is sent personally to them. Took me years (literal years) to explain to my mom that someone's Facebook status was not that person sending her a message.

Most don't even realize the product questions are automated. They think amazon is personally asking them so they feel obliged to respond, even if they don't know the answer.

[-] Pilkins@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

It's a culture problem. My job has mandatory overtime. They say "if you don't like it, you can find another place to work."

But... every place in my field will say that. So I don't really have an option, do I?

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