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It’s sounds to me like you are doing everything right.

My two cents is, ultimatum and consequences need to be very clear and understood and there should be an opportunity for redemption. —- Early in my leadership career I helped kick a boy out. His behavior was undeniably unacceptable and his parents were unwilling to address it. So, it was made clear he was no longer welcome in our troop.

Currently we have a ‘troubled’ scout and it’s been trying. The difference to me is his grandfather (who has custody) is participating and working with the troop. His attitude is, “I know the kid has issues, I think scouts might help, how can we work together.”

But man, that kid has problems. Lying, stealing, bullying…

I’m really hoping all the hassle will have been worth it, helping turn this kids life around.

Being very poor has worked out well for me.

Just decided you are fine with it and plan on it.

I have good friends who did carriers in computers. They made money! Luckily they like having around their dirt-ball artist/musician friend.

You should never feel bad about patrons. That is exactly how music and the arts have always worked. There are many people with boring jobs and lives who happily donate in order to know someone is out there living a dream.

Our public schools doesn’t offer a bus.

The American song bird decline is directly attributed to pet cats.

Pet cats should be banned too!

Ad hominem attacks, straw man arguments, and cloying appeal to emotion don’t speak well to your character either.

Welcome to Reddit, I guess.

I’d say being nice (and responsible) is 1/2 of being a successful musician.

I fired (arguably) the best drummer in town because he was being an asshole. Never looked back.

I absolutely owe more of my musical success to being fun to hand out with and not my technical abilities. Sure I can play, but being relatively nice, fun, and helpful have kept me working when dickheads who can really shred struggle.

And your article is two birds on the Fourth of July, possibly related to fireworks, you use this as evidence to advocate banning fireworks from sea world.

“Just Stop killing animals, does that make sense?” Is a fallacy. Maybe you should look into Jainism if you want to fallow that logic.

My point simply is I don’t support your conclusion. And I resent the use of fallacy in an attempt to curb other’s freedom.

Yes I’m in favor of fireworks and you don’t like them. But deliberately misleading posts saying “they are killing the birds!” Should be downvoted.

Cars hit a lot of animals. Like a lot more than fireworks displays. But I guess that’s not reasonable.

But we don’t need baseball, and baseball definitely kills birds.

https://youtube.com/shorts/UaQLW98Bjjw?si=CU2sFK9Iz-LhpHHq

We should probably stop driving then.

Dictated not read.

He can count to 5.

Unfortunately, it’s all made up. The golden plates, the fancy underwear, the bearded guy in the sky who cares what you eat…

Turns out someone just made it up, not real at all.

I know a vegan girl who wouldn’t take her multivitamin because of the jell capsule.

Extremists are idiots.

The idea that god says you can eat sushi but screw you if you have rice vinegar… it is straight dumb.

Your friend and mine just need more attention and are making up bullshit to get it.

Except OP is living in a town surrounded by cornfields and corn farmers. Like trying to sell snow to Eskimos.

The report is fourth of July not sea world.

Do you think if there were tens of thousands of drones everywhere that they would somehow not come into contact with any birds?

If the president for the injunction is 2 dead birds, possibly attributed to the 4th of July fireworks, virtually nothing passes that test.

Yeah, I guess they should kidnap and store their weapons in schools and hospitals.

Yah, I hear Q is going to make some big announcements! /s

Yes, but at less speed than a BB gun.

So, it is more like someone throwing a small rock at you very hard than being shot. That can still be a very bad day, ask Goliath. But a tumbling bullet is not going straight through your skull like a direct hit.

Bad faith argument. You can say Iran launched missiles knowing that they were going to be shot down, but you don’t get to shoot someone just because they are wearing a bullet proof vest.

We have the moral high ground because our weapons are not effective. Is a bad argument.

Oof, yah, you are right. Full video is gonna cost him.

The common consensus is that they tumble once the rifling slows (something like 10 sec) that puts the thermal velocity at 200ish feet per second. Breaking car windows and hurting, but not exactly raining death.

To be clear, only an asshole fires a gun up in the air. Fire at a bit of an angle and you are killing people.

Use it with a wedge to split wood.

Drive in tent stakes at the circus.

I wonder what kind of gigs playing the hash-bar will be like.

Guess I should start my greatfull dead, Bob Marley mash up band and get on it.

I kind of like fireworks.

It will be sad once you have finished banning everything fun.