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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Haven’t seen it mentioned yet, so I’ll add that you can narrow down your search a little with a site qualifier. So you can search “diy table instructions site:reddit.com” to specifically limit results to reddit only (or any site). I’ve personally also found a lot of use by using the same method within a subreddit, “diy table instructions site:reddit.com/r/woodworking”

    There’s a lot of good tips at this link. Although it’s an old page, so I dunno if they all work still, ymmv. https://www.ou.edu/webhelp/general/tutorials/google/

    I agree with some other posters that hopefully lemmy can grow to fill the boots that reddit is stumbling out of. Although with so many different instances, with different url’s, it seems less straight forward.


  • I’m a previous boy scout (~2006-12) and camp staff (~2010-2019). It’s hard to see a lot of these stories and accusations come out against bsa. While I was a youth and staff member, there was a lot of guarding from any possibility of sexual abuse. Many hours of meetings and training for both youth and adult members of the bsa. Everything erred on the side of caution. Even between staff members there’s a lot of separation between over/under 18.

    Granted these experiences all took place in a fairly liberal area. But I like to think that in the last 20+ years, the bsa has become a much safer organization. Inclusive too, girls are now allowed and welcome. (Do note girls and boys are a part of separate groups (there are co-ed branches of bsa though, Venture Scouts)).

    I also think it’s important to know how involved the Morman church used to be with bsa. There’s recently been a pretty large separation between the two organizations, but that wasn’t always the case. And without speculating too hard, churches don’t have a great history with sexual abuse.

    All of this is to say that I believe all the past survivors, and they do deserve justice. But it’s hard to see their lawsuits coming after what I believe is a fundamentally different organization (different policies, different leaders, different ties). I think there’s a lot of good that bsa can help instill with today’s youth. I’m not sure what a good solution is.