[-] Strocker89@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

We are still FB friends and have talked a few times over the years, but you're right, I should tell her!

[-] Strocker89@beehaw.org 14 points 2 weeks ago

When I was 15, I told a girl that she should audition for the elite choir at our school (she was very talented). She said she would audition if I would audition (I had no vocal talent) but I auditioned and being one of the only males I got in. I fell in love with singing, worked my ass off, went to college on a vocal scholarship and now 20 years later I am the vocal coach for the largest theatre in our state. That little moment, which she probably doesn't even remember, changed my entire life trajectory.

[-] Strocker89@beehaw.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yes, that's why I got it as well. It works great some of the time but other times it's jams just due to the high capacity. 25 round mags are completely reliable, I just have yet to be able to figure the secret for getting this one to work every single time

[-] Strocker89@beehaw.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

I have that same mag, have you found any tricks to keep it from jamming?

[-] Strocker89@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

We should take this list and divide it into government districts. There are a lot of unhappy people and a lot of parts of states, conservatives in states where liberal centers control politics, and vice versa. This map corrects a lot of those areas of people with similar beliefs could be divided into similar districts.

[-] Strocker89@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

Any system which requires government coercion over individuals is never going to be feasible because the greedy will always find a way into power. That's why it hasn't worked for communism, and that's why it hasn't worked for capitalism. What we need is a government specifically set up to protect individuals from corporations. The more we can empower individuals and the common worker, the better off we will be. Communism is not the answer to that, neither is capitalism.

[-] Strocker89@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

Sure, but I am a teacher, and if 2,500 people were killed in my area in three months, I wouldn't stick around.

[-] Strocker89@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

The article also says that gangs are responsible for 2,500 deaths between January and March alone. There's no amount of knowledge that was going to keep these people safe. And the truth is, religion can lead to fool-hardiness quite quickly, and I say that as someone who was raised in the church. Their deaths are tragic, but also avoidable.

[-] Strocker89@beehaw.org 58 points 2 months ago

Western Conservatives: They are commiting genocide ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ’ฏโค๏ธ๐Ÿ˜

[-] Strocker89@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

Right?! Are they seriously suggesting that 80% of all packages delivered in Philadelphia are stolen?

[-] Strocker89@beehaw.org 3 points 4 months ago

If you did, you certainly only have seconds now...

[-] Strocker89@beehaw.org 4 points 4 months ago

I have met Doug Wilson personally, he lives in my state. He also wrote a rather lengthy book that includes things like "slavery wasn't really as bad as people make it seem". I had the unfortunate opportunity of listening to him preach a sermon on how hitting your kids is really the only godly way to discipline. He's a terrible human being, and it is terrible how many people have joined his cult, Christ Church, operating out of Moscow, Idaho.

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