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Posts posted by Goredho
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On 7/3/2025 at 2:34 PM, BrickHorn said:
I fucking love that song. Outside of LZ and LZII, it’s the best blues-inspired song they recorded.
But I’d lump it in with Bring it on Home (another favorite of mine) as a hybrid. The front half is heavy, reverb soaked blues, but the original parts are pure rock.
The first two albums include some straight up blues arrangements, just with a harder edge. Lemon Song, You Shook Me, and How Many More Times are good examples.
Your post reminded me of one the things about When The Levee Breaks harmonica that I love. That’s just how big and raw it is, matching up to how big that beat is. Much different than how typical blues harmonica is rendered. Plant played it into a mic and through an amp and they recorded that so it had some saturation/overdrive to it. It was also recorded a half step above and then taken down through tape manipulation to give it more of a deeper resonate timbre. One of Zep/Page’s many clever production choices.
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10 hours ago, Planet Houston said:
As far as positive news, there are a bunch of La Junta counselors that are absolute heroes. Stories will come out. Miraculous that there weren’t fatalities there.
This does not surprise me in the least. Most of the counselors were former campers, and the development campers receive at La Junta is the kind of stuff that would make them capable of this as young adults.
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47 minutes ago, Slacks said:
I wonder if this dude realizes he got used, quite bigly, and really can't do shit about it except be a hoe on the internet.
I think he realizes he got used. I doubt he realizes he can't really do shit about it.
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41 minutes ago, Captainant said:Parents, counselors, and campers are victims in all of this. State and local leadership are the ones responsible for this mass casualty event
I generally agree, but I think you left out one culpable party -- voters. People that vote for the leadership who say they are going to keep government expenditures as small as possible. The leadership that decided $1 million was just too much for an emergency warning service in Kerr county. You can say that leadership is negligent and the guilty party, but really, they are just carrying out the desires of the majority of their constituents. The people in these areas putting this leadership in place are ultimately to blame for the leadership you all suffer under.
This is an uncomfortable conversation that needs to happen with people you know that vote for that leadership. Otherwise, you're just gonna keep getting underfunded incompetence at the state and local level every time shit gets real. Or you can avoid places like Kerr County and Texas as a whole and go to where the majority of people value funded competence in their local and state government.
I wish it was different, but it is what it is.
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The outro solo on this is maybe my favorite of all time. The last chord in the progression is out of key and Knopfler uses that harmonic context brilliantly.
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Just now, South Austin said:
It'll matter in that a group of wealthy families of deceased campers will lobby the legislature for some reform, and the legislature will pass some performative bill that won't do shit.
🤷♂️ We'll see.
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1 minute ago, Hagbard Celine said:
if i were one of the parents my price would be "all heads roll or we turn the state blue"
podium barbie had to look down while trashing the nws - the regime is concerned
Exactly. This is fundamentally different than Uvalde. Kids from the wealthiest & most powerful families in Texas were in grave danger and some died. It shouldn't matter, but it does.
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2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
I guarantee the overwhelming majority of families sending their kids to Mystic don't have Hunt money. We're talking a lot of west Austin attorneys, etc. They'll have a price.
Well, obviously not everyone at Mystic has Hunt money, but there is a dead Hunt kid at Mystic and if that family wants real answers, they will get them. Knowing some of them personally, I think they will.
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Just now, jimmyjazz said:
I think the broad expectation is that these families will have a price. It will be high, but they'll have a price.
Maybe, but my experience with such families is that they generally don't have a price when it comes to their own. The Hunt's have 25 billion dollars. Money means very little to them.
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A 9 year old from the Hunt family died in this. It isn't going to just be swept under the rug.
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Those camps are definitely like the greek system tailored to kids. They do a great job of providing coming-of-age experiences and connectivity for the next generation of Texas bankers, businessmen, socialites, politicians, etc... And the families of means looking to move into those circles. You can view that as cynically as you want, but the last names of campers there read like a list of surnames of those with power and influence inside the state of Texas. Cost insures its exclusivity. This is one reason I don't think this will all be hand waved away like Uvalde. When people with last names like Hunt or Kroenke or Kerr have questions, they will get answers.
I come from some privilege and went to La Junta for 4 summers in the late 70s/early 80s, and it was an absolute blast. For me personally, it was a great growth opportunity and I got a shit ton of confidence out of the experiences. I never parleyed it into any sort of adult status, I spent most of my 20s ripping the silver spoon from my mouth, but for those lucky/connected enough to go, they are better for the experiences they had at these camps.
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1 minute ago, Chad Fuck said:
Hahaha.
Man, you are the BEST at this thread! And life, apparently.This is a sub $500 guitar (used), nothing to envy, but it’s a solid mahogany/spruce dread that sounds and plays really good.
It’s gonna replace my cheap, old black Takamine that was my only guitar for a long time while kids were little. The one I put them to bed with. My daughter asked if she could have it and I’m giving it to her.
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43 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:
SIAP but this is just one piece of the puzzle in this unfathomable weather tragedy.
From The NY Times:
In an interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said the county did not have a warning system because such systems are expensive, and local residents are resistant to new spending.
“Taxpayers won’t pay for it,” Mr. Kelly said. Asked if people might reconsider in light of the catastrophe, he said, “I don’t know.”
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Kelly is the individual who early on Friday said all Mystic campers were accounted for.
I think that’s a significant point. You see it all over Colorado, too. The rural, non-resort areas have very low taxes, very few services and three out of every four people that live there likes it that way. The right (wrong?) wildfire event would play out in much the same way in these areas.
These local government officials are mostly guilty of providing the local government that locals want to pay for. So who is negligent and responsible here? That’s a debate for a different part of this site, but maybe people who disagree that emergency services are a cuttable cost should look to different areas for a sleepaway camp for their kids.
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12 hours ago, HenryJames said:6 hours ago, HenryJames said:
Such a messy divorce.
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This is a horrific tragedy, and I feel for everyone affected. I am compelled to post, but what is there to say? Word's haven't been invented to capture or convey the horror of an unknown number of dead kids. I went to La Junta until 13, and the memories I have from there are among the best of my childhood. My brothers did, too, and my sister went to Camp Mystic. Had timing been different, it could have been one of us who was swept away in a flood, leaving behind grieving parents and the lingering, unanswerable question of why.
I guess the one thing that might give some solace is that in the worst of tragedies we often see the best of men. It won't be from a politician. It will be from people there, doing what they can, at sacrifice or peril to themselves. You are already hearing allusions to it. How some of the counselors managed to guide their campers to safety. How posters here will be on their way to help in the recovery. Keep those stories coming, because they are the light in a time of darkness.
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3 hours ago, troph said:
meanwhile our robot bosses ….
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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:
I ALREADY VOLUNTEERED, GODDAMMIT!
Unless you start seeding your social media with dramatic readings of "Mein Kampf" in blackface, you will not be qualified.
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22 minutes ago, GenXer said:
I don’t see this at all. We must be in different industries.
I hear comments about how it’s impossible to plan with tariffs looming/shifting. I’ve heard this directly from our CEO and from a guy several offices over that was walking around and promoting tucker carlson and joe rogan.
The backlash about selling public lands was heard by congress and pulled out of BBB. This doesn’t happen if everyone is pleased with everything.
It’s more that I live in rural America and the people around me that I’m talking about, none of them are involved in a work context like you describe. They are rural, blue collar types, and they are as happy as a maggot in a warm pile of bullshit.
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24 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:
How many of them have been personally affected? That's all that reaches most of them. Something that directly causes them pain. Losing their job/insurance/ something bad happening to their kid(s).
Exactly. I see no epiphanies happening among Trump voters like these memes present. Medicaid cuts haven't happened yet, so no one is feeling the pain. The Trump voters I know are happy with how he's running things, are fully convinced we're in the start of his promised Golden age and remain relieved that Kamala didn't win. So I question whether anything in this thread that is presented as regret is real or indicative of any real movement in the minds of his voters.
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Do you all think these LEF memes and shit are real people? I mean, I know a decent number of Trump voters of varying income/education/intelligence levels, and none of them are regretting their vote.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
in Daily Texan
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So if Elon goes through with making a 3rd party, is it going to be right or left of Trump's MAGA party? Like, is it going to be tree hugging clean energy stuff, or nazi salute sieg heil stuff?