Oh man, we got pulled out of class for an Army presentation.
It was history class, during a unit on WWII and fascism.
Granted this was decades ago so not quite as ridiculously fucked as if they were doing it today but if you think I didn’t give the recruiters the most disgusted look and tell their head asshole that I didn’t appreciate my actual education being interrupted for this nonsense you’d be wrong. My dad is a war vet. I know what the military does to good people. Both from what it did to him, and from what he saw done to others.
You know, I haven’t always agreed with Hakeem (that may be needless to say, I don’t know that I’ve ever always agreed with any politician) but this is exactly what he is supposed to do in this situation and we gotta get behind him a thousand percent.
Remember: if we can stall long enough, sometimes we can outright prevent the thing from happening. Therefore stalling is valuable. In fact, stalling is vital. Even if you say to yourself, dude, they’ll force it through next month, what’s the use, well—how many people do you think can get out of the country or get out of their red state or get better prepared in a month? More than zero right? So it’s worth it. When we can’t stop it, we stall it.
And if you have a Democratic member of congress—please call their office and tell them that this is what you want them to do. It’s just as valuable as telling them when they screw up, maybe more. Tell them that if they hold the line, we’ve got their backs.
Hot take: Music at concerts sounds like shit without earplugs.
You know why that is, though? Because the person doing the sound-balancing at the concert is either 1.) wearing earplugs, so the sound is balanced for someone wearing earplugs; or 2.) is not wearing earplugs and so likely has damaged hearing.
please for the love of music wear earplugs, or loops, or something. I went to a Static-X concert once and I couldn’t hear anything for three days after because I forgot mine and figured “sure, no problem, if it gets too bad I’ll step out”. I did not step out, they are way too good.
earplugs by far make the music better – the band is wearing them, the mixers and audio techs are wearing them, you should be wearing them. Live music is for feeling the music, and ear plugs would never stop that, but they also get rid of the highs from the speakers that everyone finds unnerving.
Wear earplugs. Protect your hearing.
If you can’t do ear plugs like me(miniscule ear canals that make it legit painful) I highly reccomend getting a pair of those ear muffs for gun ranges and industrial work. You can get ‘em pretty cheap and they work great!
Look for different sizes of ear plugs too, i used to have the small-ear-canal-can’t-find-plugs-that-fit-without-hurting problem but they make more sizes now.
You can also go to gun shows and they always have booths where someone will make you custom molded foam ear plugs for a very reasonable price.
You can also get moldable silicone ear plugs that can be shaped to sit in the shell of your ear and don’t have to go in the ear canal.
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