He’s there, in the jpg artifacts

That’s why he spoke through a burning bush

I thought maybe this would be about the cheap disposable products and massive amount of waste these companies produce, but nope - it’s just the wrong pollution.

We need to create massive amounts of cheap disposable American products and send massive amounts of American waste to our landfills.

Concord: A Realm Reborn

It is still the winner. This is just internal church stuff. The couple can choose a different church, a different religion, a non-religious wedding, etc.

If a personalized wedding with details like this are important to the couple, maybe the Swedish Lutheran church isn’t the right flavor of Christianity or religion for them.

You’re wrong! I can’t do either.

They’ll be dead, but their descendants will build self-sustaining fortresses with robot guards in the 11th hour, eventually surrounded by slums full of slaves who will fight each other for their entertainment.

I tried. Damn this accursed battery!

The app showed me a skyscraper and now I feel inadequate.

1. You are human. Accept that imperfection is a built-in feature. No one is going make 100% of people happy. It’s not possible.

2. 95% is great. Your lessons are more successful than most, I reckon. You know if you’re doing a good job or not. You’re the expert here - not the 5%.

3. You have to accept that you can’t control how other people feel, how things affect them, or how they behave. Your lessons may just not reach certain types, and that is probably not your fault. It may not be their fault either, but they may not understand that.

4. Students (especially teenagers and often college-age) often think they know the one right way that everything should be done. They’ll find out eventually, hopefully, that their views aren’t infallible, or they’ll grow up to be insufferable. Many students are also just vindictive in reviews if they find out a class isn’t as easy as they expected or if they got a bad grade when they didn’t study. The possibilities are so endless that you’ll just drive yourself insane if you try to take every criticism at face value, when they may well be mostly fiction. (Your being upset by the negative reviews may be their intention.)

Look at other reviews of other instructors, teachers, professors, etc. and you’ll see a pattern. Grade yourself on a curve.

Whenever he’s with Elon he leaves his dentures in the car.

Finally

“if you fuck with my liberty”*

^{*and by liberty I mean specifically don’t talk about mass shootings during campaign season. All other liberties are fair game so don’t bother being gentle just step on me hard please I like it.}

Take lessons. It doesn’t need to be weekly or even steady like when you were little. There are beginner piano lesson books tailored to adults, and having a teacher who can walk you through it, discuss your interests and goals, and answer your questions is worth the money, even if you meet once a month or just schedule per-basis when you feel ready to meet again. A local music shop can put you in touch with a teacher that knows rock.

And don’t give up when it’s hard. It’s hard to learn new skills. Trust that your brain accomplishing work in the background even when you feel like you’re not making progress, which will happen sometimes. One day you’ll wake up and find that the impossible chord progression you’ve been stuck on for weeks is a little bit easier all of the sudden, then it’s on to the next milestone.

A house centipede is just 4 spiders in a trench coat.

The marimba has left the chat.

https://youtu.be/eDiSYp_51iY

First I would support campaign finance reform and watch 90% of the problems be solved.

Then I would tackle the other 10% by making voting more accessible - especially in primaries. Make it so accessible that even young voters bother to do it. That way people will choose younger reps more often.

So no, I wouldn’t support putting a bandaid on one issue and ignoring the root causes.

In 200 years, AI will hack it for you, but you’ll need a dozen antique dongles to get from USB-Z to A.

It’s also an easy way to show new users one basic front-facing feature on Lemmy that is different from Reddit - which is a good idea on its own, but especially because Reddit used to display upvotes/downvotes this way and then removed it entirely, probably for manipulative reasons.

It’s good to be able to customize, but better to have the default option be an improvement over the alternative. Even more-so when the change isn’t jarring.