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Goredho

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  1. Saw it last night. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was not a big enough fan to understand that they had much more intent in their catchy songs that decorated my childhood than what they might provide at face value. Was cool to learn what they were really about and trying to achieve.
  2. I’m saying there are groups inside and outside this country that gain from our societal discord, that have no problem engineering societal discord where and when they can, and if they had the means to use gender dysphoria as a means to engineer societal discord, well… their morality and conscience certainly wouldn’t prevent them from doing it.
  3. Yeah, maybe. I mean, if you wanted to introduce rifts in conservative families between parents and kids to get the parent's riled up enough to support the overthrow of the established order, this would be a good way to do it. I don't doubt that there are people in power for whom the end justifies any means. The real question to me is are the tools available through online targeting, influencing, etc... to where they would have the means.
  4. From what I have personally seen, the conservatives who are the most pissed off and have a real, personal experience in the matter are those whose kids come up to them one day, state they are trans and start asking to be called by different pronouns. These parents blow a gasket and look for someone to blame. The conservative info-sphere is right there ready to provide them with targets. These families talk to their friends, their pastor, etc... about the experience. The conservative narrative is reinforced by experiences conservatives have with their own kids, or with friend's families that they know. Are these kids legitimately trans? In my opinion, knowing these kids, and knowing full well it's not my place to make such judgements, the answer is, pretty exclusively, no. So where are they getting the idea they are? Again, just from what I have personally seen, these kids are getting it from a combination of YouTube, teen gamer culture, discord, Minecraft servers, etc... They get it from their online hangouts, especially during lockdowns when everything else was shut down and kids were spending a lot more time than normal online. Places where it's "cool" to be trans and internet anonymity and disconnection provides a sense of safety. You can get as tinfoil hat as you want after that. Is this just the 2020's equivalent of a teen coming home with a tattoo in 1990 much to their parent's chagrin? Or is there a strategic effort to influence kids online and engineer these feelings within them and the resulting rifts in U.S. families as a means to weaken American societal cohesion? I dunno. The only thing I am certain of is that these kids sure as shit weren't groomed by the poor public school teacher just trying to not be an asshole when a kid came up to them after class questioning their gender because they know they could never talk to their conservative parents about it. They either go to private religious schools or are home schooled. If a kid's ultimate life's happiness as an adult lies in being trans, then I want them to be trans as fuck and not have that right be imposed on. This is just what I have seen from conservative families with kids experiencing gender dysphoria over the last few years. YMMV.
  5. Man, I gotta say, it's really nice to be in a position where there's a great anticipation for Longhorn's football before a season. I know there were the last year or two as well, but being in the playoffs two years in a row means it's not a fluke. What Sark is building is real, and going to endure for the foreseeable future. There will be a time when we get stuck in the doldrums of success, things start to degrade and we eventually have to go through another Charlie Strong/Tom Herman rebuilding era before we find the right guy to steward the program, but man, I don't see anything but good times on the 5 year horizon.
  6. Well, Frank Drebin is Frank Drebin, and I think you are correct in your Surly fetish assessment. I'm sure he and many others here would be like...
  7. More proof that AI should replace CEO's.
  8. We have different Roadhouse fantasies. I've always wanted to rip out someone's esophagus (and to play as well as Jeff Healey).
  9. You are correct, economic populism is the way. 82-88% (reports vary) of US citizens have a net worth less than a million dollars, a figure which is becoming worth less and less by the day under Trump 2.0. The economics of that 82-88% should be the D platform, full stop. Nothing else should matter to them until they quit getting their ass demolished by the combination of populist Trump and their own milquetoast politics-as-usual approach. I've never seen an organization more in need of turnover at the top than the democratic party. That needed to happen in 2015 so a new, charismatic leader could emerge to convey this new message. Someone who can sit down with a blue collar worker, make them feel comfortable and hold a conversation with them without coming off as condescending. Calling people deplorable is no way to win friends and influence them. Oh, there isn't anyone in the bullpen that fits the bill? That's just more evidence that the current D leadership is a fatally flawed joke with regards to political strategy in this new era of politics where the people outside the "pool of likely voters" are now likely voters. Get rid of the inept and complicit at the top. They are a large net negative. And Democrats need to realize they aren't going to reach the people they need to reach to flip this script through traditional means. An interview on 60 minutes doesn't mean shit compared to an interview on Seth Rogan's podcast. They need to emerge from the traditional, safe venues where they are asked polite questions with decorum. They need to enter the lion's den and show that they are A) not afraid of Trump/MAGA and B) not what they are portrayed as in the skewed conservative informational vacuum. EN-FUCKING-GAGE. Democrats have lost the faith of the working class everyman and need to earn it back, at the same time the opposition will be doing everything in their power to undermine any re-emergence of trust. So what? The only good solution was to never allow yourself to be maneuvered into this corner. Yet here you are. If the new Democratic party is worth a damn and not complicit, they will find a way to overcome that shit. I fully expect them to do none of the above meaningfully, but would love to be happily surprised otherwise. We'll see.
  10. I've tried lots of permutations of gear, and one thing I've found is that I really like to stay analog for things that go in front of my preamp (or facsimile of a preamp in my case) in a signal chain. Fuzz, dist, OD, phaser, envelope filter, etc... Just my experience that the digital replicants are exposed as such at the head of a signal chain. Digital modulation, delay, reverb, etc.... in an effects loop (or after your amp/cab facsimile), I don't have any issues with -- these are like having effects loaded on a channel strip of a recorded track in a studio. But being super impressed with Tonex for emulating amps and cabs, I am very interested to try out some of their stomp box captures in front of an amp (real or modeled). If it works well, it might be good as a wildcard dirt box that could be used for tones outside my core analog dirt pedals. This video shows them switching back and forth between real pedals and tonex captures of the pedals, and I can't hear much difference. But it's YouTube sound quality, and it's not testing things like reactions to rolling off the volume knob and such. But I have a tonex one here at the house, I might have to just download some of these captures and try them out.
  11. Just seems like fuzz kind of lives in its own world. I hear much bigger differences between the flavors of fuzz than I do with, say, flavors of overdrive. Fuzz face, big muff, tonebender, octavia ,etc... all seem to have their own distinct sound and characteristics. ODs do, too, but not to the same degree. They also seem to really favor certain pairings with pickups and/or amps. Like, I hate the bridge strat pickup. But get some dark fuzz on it, and all the sudden its a usable, musical thing. Put that same dark fuzz on a humbucker, and its sounds like a bowl of oatmeal. My current favorite fuzz, tonebender style, in a mini format. Can get as wooly as I'd ever want, tone knob to dial out darkness, it cleans up superbly with a guitar's volume knob and sounds good with most pickups. That last thing I sent you, @G650, used this with the volume knob rolled to 3-4 w/neck & middle strat pickups.
  12. Seems like we could have a nice long discussion about fuzz here.
  13. Killer sounding pedal, and nice playing to boot!
  14. With how I see AI being pushed onto white collar workers, if a neural link provides a productivity improvement through a direct brain to AI integration, you'll have to do it to remain competitive against the people who will do it gleefully. So fucking glad I'm 55 vs 25.
  15. Trump can't exist in a context of a content and pacified populace. He's got to drum up new reasons for his base to be outraged even as their wildest dreams are being realized. He wants something like Portland's 2020 BLM riots going on in democrat controlled cities so the conservative information machine can drum up new fears and anger in the base. It will be a reverse Kent State event for them, something that galvanizes the people that love him into supporting more authoritarian measures. Just don't take the bait.
  16. No virtuoso, but I might take you up on that next time I'm in ATX. Enjoy the new guitar!
  17. Awesome! You know we are going to want to hear it, right?
  18. A hot bridge P90 is pretty much the sound of rock & roll to me. Mississippi Queen.
  19. This thread is awesome. Ewers, Arch, Sark, VY, Simms, Applewhite, Ehlinger, victimization, victim blaming. We just need someone to post something political so it gets moved to the cloak room and it will officially be The Most Surly Thread In The World™.
  20. The real post NC fireworks celebration will be in this thread
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