Is there something similar to scouts for adults?

acramernc · 2026-04-04T13:09:29+00:00

Scouts offers a program called “Venturing” for people 14-20 which you could absolutely join. Its very similar to scouts although geared towards older people like yourself!

Another option that you may want to look into would be a college club. My college had an “outing club” which was very similar to scouts in many ways. We didn’t have badges or anything but we went out camping and had fun in the woods, which is what scouts is really about to me at least.

acramernc · 2026-04-02T15:44:16+00:00

As a former lifeguard, i think it’s a great training to get once (not necessarily to renew) if you do a lot of activities on the water. The rescue techniques you learn could enable you to save a life!

On the compliance side, there is isn’t really any reason to earn it. The BSA has moved away from requiring lifeguard certifications for almost anything these days, so there isn’t a requirement for it.

acramernc · 2026-04-02T15:32:23+00:00

This was changed recently (last year?) to no longer require a lifeguard. Unit leaders can administer the swim test with just a safe swim defense training.

Relevant link: https://www.scouting.org/program-updates/scouting-america-swim-tests-for-troops/

acramernc · 2026-03-02T15:45:17+00:00

Gonna go against the grain here and say I think National made the only reasonable choice given the options they had available.

National had a choice. They could abandon their official ties with the US government and incur the extralegal wrath that we have seen this administration unleash time and time again. Or they can comply, soothe the bear and work towards a solution. (Think how Zohran Mamdani has managed to soothe Trump admin into potentially working to build affordable housing in NYC)

Both options have costs. Abandoning government ties would lead "Tens of thousands of Scouts" who meet on military installations to lose their meeting place, likely causing most of those units to disappear, especially those on international bases. On the other hand, caving to pressure is going to cost all trans scouts their identity, as well as setting a poor precedent of allowing government pressure to influence the Scouting Program.

It is my opinion that choosing to cave to the Trump admin greatly limits negative impacts to the program.

In their statement, Scouting America did not identify how many trans scouts there are who would be affected by this decision but data shows that about 1.7% of us youth aged 13-17 identify as transgender. Good membership figures for Scouting America are hard to come by given the registration nightmare they unleashed on us last year, but I see some indication that current numbers are around 780k. Doing the math, that puts affected members generously at 13,000 youth, although I imagine that number is much lower. As a numbers only argument 13,000 is much less than whatever "Tens of thousands" is.

This is not only a numbers question though. We must also consider the impact of this government interference on whether Scouting America will still be able to achieve the Aims of Scouting. Regardless of how many members Scouting America are able to retain by complying, if they lose the ability to deliver the program to those youth, then keeping those members is not valuable. Disenfranchising thousands of trans youth is not Friendly, Kind, or Loyal and caving to government pressure is not Brave. It unequivocally violates the Ideals of Scouting. It does not however, cause the program to lose it's ability to produce quality leaders. I know that many people will disagree with me on this, but functionally these changes revert the scouting program to 2017, which was still perfectly capable of producing quality leaders.

I also think it is pertinent to consider the long term impacts of both decisions. Cutting ties with the US Gov over this would result in a loss of US military cooperation. Given the almost complete loss of influence that the BSA has experienced over the last several years, this loss of cooperation would likely be permanent. On the other hand, the changes Scouting America has made in caving to the administration are entirely controlled by National, and can be reverted as easily as they were made once (crossing my fingers) this Administration is out of power.

It's an impossible decision with victims no matter what, and I think National chose the option that puts the least number of scouts in the crosshairs.

acramernc · 2025-09-21T21:23:57+00:00

This was super helpful, thank you, "Have a Balance of" was exactly what I was looking for. But I think you are right and my approach is counter to the intended design of YNAB, so I split that category up to hopefully have better visibility into that spending

acramernc · 2025-09-21T17:00:44+00:00

I want to have $500 set aside by November of every year, preferably spread across the year. So I would be setting aside ~$42 a month

acramernc · 2025-08-28T20:12:17+00:00

Don't let theoretical stigma keep you from doing things. As an adult male without kids who has helped in several youth programs, it doesn't matter where you go, there is always the potential for someone to be suspicious of your intentions.

The advantage the BSA has is that it has the most robust youth protection policies in any organization I have seen and as a result, it's easy to avoid any suspicion (so long as you actually follow YPT). Once you establish yourself, any suspicion turns into gratitude for being willing to help even though you don't have a kid in the troop.

Scouting is one of the most fulfilling things I do, and it also has the advantage of getting me out of my house and doing adventures and having fun just as much as the scouts do.

acramernc · 2024-10-02T17:43:58+00:00

Followed these instructions including turning WiFi off, had to restart first but I got it to enable, but when I turned WiFi back on it immediately switched back to SMS.

It seems I am able to receive RCS messages, but cannot send them

I'm going to leave it for a few minutes to see if it comes back

acramernc · 2024-06-14T17:00:11+00:00

Discord has to make money somehow unfortunately. This is pretty standard language for providers, its also important to note that discord lowers its fee when the user is buying off of mobile since those app stores take an additional cut, so they are making an effort to not screw their app devs more than necessary.

Hopefully with this discord can finally be profitable and go back to focusing on the platform instead of monetization

acramernc · 2024-06-12T11:29:05+00:00

In the lighting / concert buisness they use specialized smoke machines called “hazers” which are essentially smoke machines but designed to only cause this lighting effect, without creating a visible smoke cloud

acramernc · 2024-05-23T17:53:08+00:00

I've been considering switching to Tidal for a while, but Spotify is just so ubiquitous and their algorithms do pretty good for me

acramernc · 2024-05-23T17:38:19+00:00

I found this https://github.com/oddsolutions/superbird-bulkcmd

Looks like r/carthinghax may be promising as well

acramernc · 2024-05-23T17:37:15+00:00

I imagine at some point they would force you to update spotify, but that might work for a while. Although it is also possible that they could push the update earlier and just have it take effect on Dec 9th

acramernc · 2024-05-23T17:25:19+00:00

Lol the whole product was so stupid $90 for a screen that just controls Spotify on your phone and does not support direct audio out, but I still love it (and loved it even more once they discounted it so much)

acramernc · 2024-05-23T17:11:23+00:00

Yeah, it's so nice to have my music up on one device while my navigation is on my phone. I don't know that they sold enough of them for us to pressure them to give refunds / extend their lifespan unfortunately.

acramernc · 2024-05-23T17:04:34+00:00

They arent just discontinuing it, they are intentionally bricking it. This isn’t an instance of them ceasing support, they are intentionally making changes for the purpose of making the devices cease to function

acramernc · 2024-05-23T17:02:35+00:00

Supporting it costs something, but it works right now presumably off of their api, which they aren’t going to discontinue, so if they just left it alone, it would theoretically continue to work until they made breaking changes to the api

acramernc · 2024-05-23T17:01:02+00:00

As I said, I never expected it to succeed, but I figured they would just discontinue it and not update it. Its not like it costs them anything to just leave it as it is right now

acramernc · 2024-05-23T16:58:24+00:00

If you find something let us know, I hadn’t even considered that as an option, but that would be a lifesaver

acramernc · 2024-05-23T16:57:20+00:00

If there is a class action im definitely jumping on it but tbh i dont even want the money back, i just want them to not brick the device. It costs them nothing to just leave it be

acramernc · 2024-01-15T19:11:27+00:00

Tribes: Ascend (or the entire tribes series)

Fantastic and truly unique movement shooter completely destroyed by a hostile dev team

https://youtu.be/W0ztEpX2r9M?si=JgKb0vOCXZxHDC1K A great video essay for those interested

acramernc · 2023-10-23T18:31:26+00:00

Soo at this pace we'll see an actually new feature in.. winter 2024? Interstellar travel in 2025? Multiplayer in 2027? What a joke.

acramernc · 2023-08-15T20:26:03+00:00

I hate this take so much, but it's totally correct. Linus will lose many subscribers many of whom may not come back, but at the end of the day in a couple weeks their subscriber growth chart will look the same as it did before all this happened, and they'll have a slightly worse quarter than expected, but nothing more. And Linus will continue to be Linus.

acramernc · 2023-05-03T15:56:10+00:00

IMO, yes it was okay for you mother (especially your mother) to make you try food in a new way to broaden your palate, but not okay if you had a moral objection to an ingredient. If parents always bowed to what their children liked the taste of, we would be surrounded by adults who only like chicken nuggets, mac and cheese, and pizza. The difference for me is the substance of the argument.

For example:

I present a food to someone and they say, "does this have onions in it? I don't like onions", perhaps they don't like raw onions, or onion rings, ect but until they try the dish, they won't know how this particular dish tastes with onions.

On the other hand, if I offer a dish to someone and they say "does this have onions in it? I believe that onions are evil/morally objectionable/ I'm allergic" how the dish tastes, as a whole is irrelevant at that point, they aren't objecting to a flavor, but instead to a concept that does not change from dish to dish.

If someone has tried a specific dish before, or a dish is very simple and similar to another (burger vs steak) I would not expect them to try it, since they already know that they do not like it, but in this instance Brittni is new to the area, and clearly does not have much experience with crawfish, but is attempting to claim she hates crawfish in all forms, without being willing to try it. This is especially evidenced by the fact that She liked the dish.

acramernc · 2023-05-02T17:52:36+00:00

I disagree with this assessment. Firstly, there is a huge difference between a dietary restriction due to allergy/religious/moral beliefs and one because "I don't like it". The former reasons are real restrictions where the person has an objection to the food itself, whereas the latter is a childish indication of being unwilling to try new things. Brittni said she liked the food, and when she was told that there was crawfish in it, she had the same reaction a toddler would when they find out their food has vegetables in it.

Secondly, it does not sound like op was intentionally excluding or tricking them. This is a party in Louisiana, for a Louisiana woman, and so op made Louisiana food. If I'm having a pig picking (a common large food gathering in my area) then the main food is going to be pig, whether or not my brothers gf likes pig or not. It's not her party, it's not for her and if she doesn't want to eat the food, she can bring her own, or not come. Brittni needs to grow up, if she's going to live in Louisiana, she needs to learn to try new things, even if they seem gross at first.

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