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Goredho

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  1. For you surly law dogs, can a judge order that a defendant be fitted with a shock collar so they can be issued a mild correction whenever they fall asleep at their own criminal trial?
  2. Someone should have told him "Fat, MAGA drunk & stupid is no way to go through life, son."
  3. By the way, for all you snowflake conservatives that believe you'll get negged to death in the cloakroom if you don't march lock step with the "liberal hive mind" here, this conversation is proof that you are full of shit
  4. Not at all. I'm arguing that while Trump's leadership was objectively shitty, the populist anti-establishment response to the pandemic -- eschewing social distancing, not masking up, not getting vaccinated -- did not come from the top/Donald Trump. They arrived at their beliefs elsewhere, and they are who made the pandemic what it was in the US.
  5. Something we can all agree on! How many people were harmed during Covid from injecting themselves with bleach as Trump suggested might be a treatment? How many injected themselves with horse paste as was circulating online as a proper treatment? I know a ton of people that didn't vaccinate, didn't mask up and didn't social distance, and it had absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump. And Donald Trump being wise, sensical and Presidential would not have gotten them to carry themselves otherwise. They didn't vaccinate, mask up or social distance because they exceeded some critical threshold of stupidity and/or distrust of government that allowed them to fall victim of a digital grass roots movement promoting conspiracies, lies and misinformation online. One thing I think is under appreciated here is that it is not Trump leading these people astray. He's their figurehead, but these people were already fucking astray. And to the degree they've been led there, they've been led by their pastor, their family member, their friend, the community around them telling them, "Hey, you need to be aware this is going on" while passing them some bullshit meme, blog post, YouTube video or the content thereof. It is at least as influential in their mental context as a steady diet of Fox News.
  6. I knew it was going to be a popular take. I think there are a shit ton of people in this country that are a dangerous combination of A) stupid and B) irrationally distrustful of things like the federal government, science, medicine and education. They were both consumers and purveyors of disinformation related to the pandemic and they are who made the pandemic what it was in this country. They are who filled the covid death stat sheet for the US. They were going to be stupid, distrustful and not follow guidelines and mandates regardless of who was elected in 2016. Do you all honestly think Joe Dirt would have happily practiced social distancing, masked up when out and taken the vaccine like a good citizen if Hilary Clinton or Joe Biden was in the White House being all Presidential and shit? Fuck no. Has the Republican party done a lot to ensure we have an unhealthy population of manipulatable idiots that are irrationally distrustful of societal institutions like government, science, health care and education? Absolutely. But Donald Trump wasn't involved with the Republican Party before 2015 or so and the post I responded to stated Donald Trump should be held criminally liable for covid deaths in the US. I still completely disagree. January 6th, yes. Georgia vote manufacturing pressure, yes. Covid deaths, no.
  7. I agree 100% with #1 and #2. I disagree about #3. Trump's public displays of leadership during covid were about what you could expect from a reality TV star running a superpower during a no-shit global crisis, but covid was going to come to the US and kill a million plus no matter who was in the white house. And for all of his public fumbling, Trump largely allowed "the deep state" to do what they had planned for this scenario. Even if he just kind of left a lot of the actual response to the states, lockdowns and mask mandates happened, and a vaccine got developed and deployed in a pretty astonishing feat of governmental and industrial cooperation. A lot of lives were saved as a result of those efforts directed primarily by federal technocrats like Fauci and other public health officials below the federal level. Neither Trump or Biden had much to do with it. The movement against vaccines and public health measures to deal with covid didn't come from the oval office and seemed largely grass roots to me. If anyone is to blame for that, its probably social media companies and their algorithms to amplify content among clusters of the population regardless of its veracity and nation states unfriendly to the US that would have seen it as another great opportunity to sow discord amongst our citizens using their varied means.
  8. Goredho

    RIP Dickey Betts

    One of the greatest in one of my favorite bands, and it is still kind of mind blowing he probably wasn't even the best guitarist in his own band. Gonna be playing In Memory of Dickie Betts on the guitar tonight.
  9. The government winds up... delivers the pitch... Trump swings... and misses! That brings the count to two and three... ...million five hundred sixty eight thousand four hundred ninety three.
  10. Six? I only needed sheeeit said:
  11. He drives you crazy OOOH! OOOH!
  12. I have a friend like this, a guy I played sports with and did all the sporty esprit-de-corps things with. So we've been tight, almost lifelong friends. He's a self-described libertarian that has gone way down the conspiracy rabbit hole and is now basically working to try to bring about the downfall of the US. His legitimate business failed and he is rebounding by starting a podcast and writing two books simultaneously "with the help of AI." It's all aimed at promoting conspiracies and at least indirectly undermining confidence in our governmental institutions. His social media used to be full of stuff about sports and his kids and real life. Now it's just a stream of conspiracy nonsense that no one reacts to. It's like he's posting in a vacuum. Last time I saw him, I just hugged him and told him I loved him and said that if he ever wants to come back I'll help him. He just blinked in surprise and said, "I love you, too man, but... what do you mean? Come back from what?"
  13. If they are true, produce the evidence. Currently, the only thing presented in this thread is a political op-ed piece stating this as fact. I think it mentioned documents proving all this? I would love to read them.
  14. I think quarterback intelligence boils down to the ability to quickly proceed through a decision tree under duress, which isn't the same thing as general intelligence.
  15. Always best to play before you buy if you can. I live 2 hours from the nearest gear store, so I tend to try to buy used at a used price, have it shipped to me, treat my ownership as an extended demo, and if I ultimately don’t like it, I sell for roughly the same used price and the shipping costs and reverb cut are my rental/demo fees. That holds true for all brands, but it might take longer to resell something that doesn’t have Fender or Gibson on the headstock. I really think quality control is something that varies on a brand by brand (maybe even factory by factory?) basis. I agree there’s a good standard of quality from USA Fender and Gibson. I’ve also seen really good QC from PRS SE line, Eastman and Reverend which are made overseas but set up and inspected in the US before they go to retailers. Reverend in particular is probably my favorite ~$1000 new “value brand”. Absolutely on par with US made Fender and Gibson in terms of quality, playability, tone. I’d have no qualms buying any of those other brands sight unseen.
  16. I was really hoping that burly copy was going to start saying, "I've seen a lot of spinals, dude. And this guys a fake. A fucking goldbricker. This guy fucking walks. I've never been more certain of anything in my life..." followed by
  17. I think he had a combination of vision and tolerable sociopathy that made him a successful CEO for quite awhile. I don't know what happened, but something has robbed him of that vision, and all he has left is an increasingly intolerable sociopathy.
  18. Missed this one. I've owned an Eastman slope-shoulder Gibson J45 knockoff and a 335 knock off. Both were great for just under a grand each at the time. I've played some J45s and owned a couple of 335s and I'd say they were roughly on par with a Gibson standard equivalent. They are made with a similar level of care and quality of component. They don't hold value like a Gibson, but if you buy used, someone else has already taken that hit for you. I ultimately sold them, but it was not because they sucked.
  19. This Little Shop of Horror's remake looks fucking awful.
  20. Its been awhile, but a 1970 Martin 00-18 came across my radar. That's my birth year, so I took it as sort of a cosmological sign that I was meant to have the guitar. Its not mint or anything, pretty much player grade with some wear and bracing fixes. I am getting the bridge reaffixed (it showed signs of starting to lift), but should be able to pick it up next week. Here's a video the owner sent me. Martin0018.mov
  21. Yeah, I kind of expected Wolfgang to just be EVH's kid riding his dad's name to some notoriety/cash, but he's a hell of a multi-instrumentalist and a pretty damn good song writer with his own thing going on. I mean, he'll pay homage to his dad and drop some killer guitar work that sounds a lot like his old man, but that's not his only or main thing. I'm glad he's out there making his music and creating his own shadow.
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