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KozmoNaut posted:To competently use a tool, in other words. 
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Dec 19, 2020 20:12
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Solice Kirsk posted:I mean, if you can't take care of yourself that's fine. Learning to cook and change your own oil isn't hard. So, every 3000-5000 miles, you can: flip through your car manual to find the appropriate specifications, drive to an auto parts shop, buy a bunch of oil and a filter, drive home, jack up your car, get on your back, start draining the oil, wait, get back under the car, change the filter, put the drain cap back on, pop the hood, pour in the oil, pour the old oil into a closeable container, find somewhere to store the oily funnel and drain pan, take the old oil to be properly disposed of, and change and wash your clothes after having been on the dirty-rear end garage floor and/or street; the whole ordeal lasting like 3 hours. OR, a professional who has all the tools and materials on hand and can drive your car over a pit, do the whole dang thing in twenty minutes, and charge you only like 15 bucks more than the oil and filter would've cost you at the auto parts shop anyway. I changed my own oil a couple times when I was 17 and my dad felt like it was an important life skill for me to learn but you and he were both wrong as heck on that front.
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Dec 19, 2020 20:23
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Yeah, there's good car maintenance to be able to do, but changing oil is a huge pain in the rear end that's not too expensive to make someone else's problem. It's worth paying to not have to deal with.
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Dec 19, 2020 20:45
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Solice Kirsk posted:Learning to responsibly use/maintain a firearm is an important life skill. Only if you live in a backwards hell-nation. Which we do, so yes teach your kids about guns that's actually good advice.
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Dec 19, 2020 20:47
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spookygonk posted:Shall I get off your lawn as well? I own land, so I do have the correct clearances to say that! Now that I'm officially a middle-aged upper middle-class landowning white dude I can lean into becoming more and more out of touch until I find myself one day saying "they should just shoot them" when talking about 15 year old kids TPing houses.
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Data Graham posted:I thought WeTwork went out of business or something Nah, you're thinking if WeTwerk. 
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Dec 19, 2020 21:01
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Eventually you end up with a group of grumpy white guys at a diner in Orange County California loudly advocating for rounding up the homeless onto cruise ships to sink at sea.
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Dec 19, 2020 21:06
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Humphreys posted:Cringey as it is, that does have some good advise. It’s an FS2000, the semi-auto commercial version. Other than looking sci-fi it basically does the same thing as any other .223 rifle on the board but heavier and bulkier. Not much reason to buy it except feeling like a future soldier.
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Dec 19, 2020 21:06
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Solice Kirsk posted:Learning to responsibly use/maintain a firearm is an important life skill. Same with basic maintenance of a car, how to properly use a knife, how to build a fire, and how to cook. If you don't know how to do, at the very least, three of those things you probably should. literally the only thing on here that's an "important life skill" for anyone ITT is cooking
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Dec 19, 2020 21:09
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chitoryu12 posted:. Not much reason to buy it except feeling like a future soldier. Your sending mixed messages here
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Dec 19, 2020 21:10
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Modern life skill I wish
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Dec 19, 2020 21:13
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If you don't learns the basics of wiring and over confidence how are you going to burn down your shed?
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Dec 19, 2020 21:16
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Important life skills in 2020: correct handwashing technique, having a sense of if something on social media seems wrong or distorted, being able to check the source of things you see online, knowing how to improvise a mask
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Dec 19, 2020 21:19
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That fourth one desperately needs a slide whistle.
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Dec 19, 2020 21:41
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DontMockMySmock posted:So, every 3000-5000 miles, you can: flip through your car manual to find the appropriate specifications, drive to an auto parts shop, buy a bunch of oil and a filter, drive home, jack up your car, get on your back, start draining the oil, wait, get back under the car, change the filter, put the drain cap back on, pop the hood, pour in the oil, pour the old oil into a closeable container, find somewhere to store the oily funnel and drain pan, take the old oil to be properly disposed of, and change and wash your clothes after having been on the dirty-rear end garage floor and/or street; the whole ordeal lasting like 3 hours. OR, a professional who has all the tools and materials on hand and can drive your car over a pit, do the whole dang thing in twenty minutes, and charge you only like 15 bucks more than the oil and filter would've cost you at the auto parts shop anyway. I can rebuild engines and transmissions, and yeah, if you get a coupon you can usually have a quick lube change your oil for literally the same price as buying the components. I do it on all my bikes though because motorcycle mechanics will charge you a full hour at $60 per. Probably the #1 life skill we should be teaching kids in this day and age is media literacy though. Cooking's a short second.
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Dec 19, 2020 22:24
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Only skill you truly need is eating rear end.
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Dec 19, 2020 22:35
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Elviscat posted:I can rebuild engines and transmissions, and yeah, if you get a coupon you can usually have a quick lube change your oil for literally the same price as buying the components. I think a lot of these skills are useful to know how to well enough that you understand the process, and that it's worth paying someone else to do. Like I can strip down, clean and re-grease and reassemble my bike's headset but gently caress doing it when the option to pay someone else to do it is there. Similarly I can start a fire with a flint and steel but I still use a lighter when I go camping. Engines are a mystery to me though. It is my man-shame.
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Dec 19, 2020 22:40
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Cocaine Bear posted:Only skill you truly need is eating rear end. Eat a man's rear end and you feed yourself for a day. Teach a man to eat rear end and you feed him for a lifetime
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Dec 19, 2020 23:03
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Gruffalo Soldier posted:I think a lot of these skills are useful to know how to well enough that you understand the process, and that it's worth paying someone else to do. boom fuel go in, splode vapour come out, while the big wheel on side turn
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Dec 19, 2020 23:48
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Americans: yeah it's totally normal to teach a child how to use lethal weapons Also Americans: lol let's saddle our kids with insurmountable college debt and make routine medical procedures hideously expensive while also have no social safety net to speak of This either creates the class that will topple the US from inside, or will make it storm troopers, though given recent history, I'm quite sure that it's the latter
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*calls up hotel* "Hey! Put on that centaur broad I talked to earlier! Bullshit, there was a horse-lady hybrid at the front desk when I was there this afternoon, quit jerkin' me around!"
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Dec 20, 2020 01:53
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Dec 20, 2020 03:42
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Inspector 34 posted:Wood? Nay.
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Ak Gara posted:I don't know how to file taxes but the Plex server on my smartTV has every single movie and song correctly meta tagged. We hired a boomer nanny for a little while. It blew her mind when she said something was wrong with Plex and I explained it was my server with my media on it. Image: 
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Dec 20, 2020 06:07
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I’m 33 years old and have no idea what you’re talking about 
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Dec 20, 2020 06:39
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If only there were some kind of website into which one might type the word "Plex" and literally click on the first result. A 'search engine', as it were. Alas, such future technology is beyond our reach.
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Dec 20, 2020 07:17
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It's gonna take me a minute to shuffle through the card index at the library zoomer, calm down
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Life is lived on the internet and in computers, as we all know. Being good at social media and googling everything is... well, the most important skill you can acquire, and you will never need to *know* anything because you can just Google it grandpa, jeez. What do you mean to outside and interact with the world? Feel accomplished at doing something with my hands and knowing I can do it again? Ok, boomer  Ain't nobody teaching *my* kids how to do anything off a screen in "real" life. My mental health is great because I am online all the time. Gooons, man.
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Dec 20, 2020 07:49
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hawowanlawow posted:I got a chipmunk rifle when I was 6, it's fine Look man I get the whole gun thing, but I have to disagree hard here. That's extremely irresponsible. There's no way a 6 year old has the maturity and patience to safely teach a chipmunk how to shoot a rifle
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Dec 20, 2020 08:06
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Pope Hilarius II posted:Americans: yeah it's totally normal to teach a child how to use lethal weapons The latter. The US Military's big on harvesting recruits straight out of high school.
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canyoneer posted:Look man I get the whole gun thing, but I have to disagree hard here. That's extremely irresponsible. Theodore could no longer stand the wait. He just wanted a hula hoop.
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Dec 20, 2020 08:16
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Anyone who needs three hours to change their oil should not be within arms reach of a wrench for fear of burning their house down.
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Imagined posted:If only there were some kind of website into which one might type the word "Plex" and literally click on the first result. A 'search engine', as it were. Alas, such future technology is beyond our reach.
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:Theodore could no longer stand the wait. He just wanted a hula hoop. ALVIIIIIIIIN!!!!!
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Mzuri posted:Life is lived on the internet and in computers, as we all know. Being good at social media and googling everything is... well, the most important skill you can acquire, and you will never need to *know* anything because you can just Google it grandpa, jeez. If you aren't prepared to drop everything and live in the woods forever then you are a failed human. Booomers, man Seriously though knowing how to to learn things is more useful than learning a bunch of stuff I'll never use like whittling or how to make a fire. There are tutorials on how to do basically every single task in existence available on the internet, and the internet is basically always available to most people. Every month I have to help my parents do something on their computer, them learning to google would be more useful than however many fires they could theoretically start. Piell has a new favorite as of 14:15 on Dec 20, 2020 |
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I can't stop listening to this farty rear end music that's like Seinfeld from hell. https://twitter.com/BAKKOOONN/status/1258955909188874240?s=20 E: Lol! https://twitter.com/BAKKOOONN/status/1258957555960709120?s=20 Lodin has a new favorite as of 14:33 on Dec 20, 2020 |
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