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Goredho

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  1. Things we received from how we conducted ourselves in the world from Sept 2nd 1945 to Sept 10th 2001. This is in regard to our foreign policy, NATO, the UN and maintaining strong alliances with western democracies. - The most peaceful stretch of time for a state in the history of the world - The most prosperous stretch of time for a people in the history of the world - Significant humanitarian and civil rights gains here and abroad - Dozens of countries following our leadership and deferring to our policies - Dozens of countries willing to materially and militarily assist us whenever asked - An unassailable position as the world's lone super power (our downfall could only come from within) You do make an excellent point that this was all wasted on people like yourself.
  2. Now I see where he got the cyber truck's geometry from. It's him, rotated 90 degrees to be parallel to the ground.
  3. No idea. I mean, right now, the U.S. is as vocal about absorbing the rest of North America as Russia is about the Ukraine or China is about Taiwan. We seem to be heading into a new age of imperialism, where the U.S. aims to expand within the west, China in Asia and Russia in Europe. What might look appealing today outside this country may be a war ravaged hellscape in 5 years let alone 20. More than ever, this famous Lenin quote resonates with me: "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." We're in a time of tectonic geopolitical shifts. The best thing one can do is prepare to be agile and fluid vs cementing concrete plans.
  4. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/trump-national-forest-executive-order It'll be an own goal, but we'll just...
  5. I am transforming more and more into a finger picker. I mean, I’ll still use a pick but it’s maybe 10% of the time. As for age, I think for me it’s more that my interests and focus has changed over time. I am pretty ambivalent about flat picking 32nd notes and more interested in meaningful/memorable melody and note articulation these days. I’ll still play quick lines, but it’s mostly fingerpicked legato. Along with this are triads and arpeggios that are more economically played fingerstyle or hybrid picking.
  6. Where’s Rowdy Roddy Piper when you need him?
  7. IK just announced a new editor app for these pedals to be released March 13th. I guess they finally got tired of reading "Everything about the Tonex is great except that fucking app..." https://www.ikmultimedia.com/news/?id=IKAnnouncesTONEXEditor&srsltid=AfmBOoqSV21NZ0ZBtzR2wLxcC9VtZi05RKdfIiZk0Slal1Aqzvui6NTz
  8. She should pull herself up by her garter belt, become an escort and start an onlyfans. It not only won't cost her anything, she'll actually be paid to be fertilized. She needs to be quick, though. The going rate is inversely proportional to the price of eggs and other inflationary pressures.
  9. @Chad Fuck, you will be happy to learn that in less than 24 hours of me giving you shit for this post, I received this decorative wooden spoonocaster as a thoughtful gift. Mind sharing your address?
  10. What narrative happens to be the best for Ewers draft stock? That he played mediocrely when healthy or mediocrely while injured? Maybe he was injured all year and that was the only reason he struggled, but I would also expect these stories to protect his payday if it weren’t the case, too. We don’t know, and it will be NFL scouts, coaches and GMs to figure out whether it’s spin or legit.
  11. Attaching the same gif twice to an old man rant post really sells it.
  12. In this game of Axis & Allies Russia's Russia, The U.S. is Germany and Europe is Poland.
  13. Meanwhile, somewhere in Colorado these are being made… I guess those Firefly’s and Harley Benton’s have a use after all.
  14. Will be interesting to see what is eventually done with National park land without anyone to administer/steward them. The small government answer to national parks has been conservation easements in the past. Encumber the land with an easement held by a conservation group that prevents it from being subdivided or otherwise developed and get a tax break for the difference in its “highest and best use” value (developed) and its value with the encumbrance. Then you get to enjoy it as your own personal private wilderness with little/no cost of ownership. There is no stipulation that it needs to be open to the public, even though the public are indirectly paying for it through lost tax revenue. If it were up for auction and you had a serious tax liability and access to a few billion dollars, you could buy the Grand Canyon for several billion, put a conservation easement on it, get several billion in tax breaks and wind up owning it for treefiddy, more or less. Great little vacation spot for a billionaire.
  15. Did you appreciate not having the government interfere with your decision making?
  16. I like the Eastman's a lot at half the price of the equivalent Gibson. I've liked every Yamaha guitar I've ever laid my hands on, so I doubt you could go wrong with any of their models.
  17. Bought a couple Eastman’s for this year’s gigging as part of a jazz quartet. Essentially ES-335 and an ES-330/Casino knockoffs from China. They have a nice, fat 1.72” nut width for extra string spacing for jazz chords. Eastman’s are a pretty killer value relative to Gibson (at least before tariffs). Resale sucks.
  18. Trump’s a figurehead for a movement. He’s just signing executive orders that others have authored and playing golf.
  19. Do you leave the Tonex on all of the time? How are you liking the EQ? I'm looking for something like that on my pedal steel board. So for question 1, I am using the tonex one in dual mode, with basically a green and red setting that I toggle between. They are the same amp model (60s Vox AC30), but the green is clean and the red is sorta crunchy. The vast majority of the time I'm on green and using combinations of the blues mood and ratsbane to drive it, but if I want higher gain than I can get from that, I go to the red and use both pedals to push it. The little parametric eq works great for what I want. It's super quiet, does not color the tone with everything set at unity, and gives you control over a single band from 50hz to 5Khz. You can make that band as wide as you want, and boost or cut, and it's got an overall volume knob, too, so it could even be used as a boost pedal. If you just want to cut a single problem area, or boost an area for certain passages (like hitting a TS for its mid hump in a solo), it's great. If you want something to more comprehensively sculpt the signal, you'd want something like an Empress Para EQ MK II (which I also have and is great, but not for this little gigging board).
  20. Needs a turret or two.
  21. Oh, it's coming, alright.
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