Posts posted by jimmyjazz
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Beware of the rabbit hole . . . you'll end up finding a zillion arguments about whether the bottom head should be tuned higher than, equal to, or lower than the top head. At that point my eyes cross and I give up. Pick one -- probably not "equal to" each other -- and try it out. Try it different another day. The kid has a lifetime to tweak.
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Nice kit, 'cruser.
topochico, I'm not a drummer, but I've watched plenty of them tune drums. One trick that seems to help get the heads to settle in without so much tail-chasing is to approach them as one would tighten lugnuts on a wheel. Don't go around the head one lug after the next -- cross over in an alternating "star" pattern. (It won't be a star in most cases because not many drums have only 5 lugs, but you get the point.)
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8 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:
Love Manhattan. And any of you who worry too much need to look at what the country’s metro areas look like. There’s definitely hope, brothers.
Rural deplorables will absolutely not win this fight. And of course there’s good people on both sides (in this case), but we all know where the majority of Dotard’s trashy base hails from. Fuck them and their shithole towns.
I don't know what part of Oklahoma you grew up in, but I grew up in a small Missouri college town, and because of the university, I existed in what turned out to be a bubble of rational, moderate thought. It was only after I left and viewed the entire area and populace from afar that I realized how "deplorable" many people in that part of the country actually are. I didn't hang out with racists and ignorant rednecks -- I knew they were there, but in my world they were well out-numbered. I just didn't realize that my world was the exception, not the rule.
I have no problem characterizing the majority of flyover country as being stocked with deplorables. Are there good people there? Absolutely. They're the minority.
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4 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
Should American citizens be able to decide on removing voting and candidate rights due to ethnicity or gender? Seems like we’ve been down this road before and the people decide for a more egalitarian democracy/society.
Say you set an age restriction but then there’s some crazy medical breakthrough that allows people to live for another 100 years in good physical and mental health. What then?
You didn't answer my question.
I'll answer yours: medical breakthroughs could reasonably trigger changes in standards for the office.
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1 minute ago, texastough said:
They can impeach for anything that he does while in office. I think the assumption is the financials will show crimes he committed before he was elected
That's not my assumption whatsoever. Hence, my statement yesterday that anyone thinking he shelved his financial malfeasance once elected is a fool.
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7 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
The American experiment is founded on the idea of citizens deciding their own leaders. Any restriction that gets in the way of that I consider borderline un-American.
Then why shouldn't the citizens be able to define limits and standards to the office of the Presidency? I assume you feel the same way about the natural born citizen and residency requirements?
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Half the country screams about how 29 YO AOC is just a dumb young bartender and that she has no life experience, yet they would vote for Jacob Wohl (age 21) for POTUS in a heartbeat.
I'm fine with the 35 YO bar for President. It should be higher. I wouldn't have a problem with a 70 YO cutoff, either. You have to project out 8 years, and just as some 14 YOs are probably fine to drive, we don't (in general) let them. Some 78 YO might be sharp as a tack, but Trump has already descended below "functional moron" by 73.
I don't trust the voters. At all.
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23 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:
Anyway, the whole thing resulted in a positive change for me, which is I will no longer shy away from discussions about those “weird” kids, whether gay or trans or depressed or whatever, because it’s uncomfortable. I’ll stand up for them and advocate where I can. Because in the end they are like you and me, they are sons and daughters, friends, classmates... They are human. That was made abundantly clear.
Well, maybe that's a positive. I have a bunch of family members, most not by blood, but some are, who struggle with clinically diagnosed depression, anxiety, and OCD, and all of those can seemingly make it easier to head down a dark path. I'd like to think my actions, were I to be more positive and outwardly express love, would help . . . but I fear that's a bit presumptuous. The fact is that depression can be very deep and hard to reach, even for close family members and professionals. It can also hide, or at least be somewhat hidden.
I believe you and I agree that what you are advocating for is a "must" for involved, compassionate members of society, but this is a big problem and it probably needs a multi-pronged "solution", and even that won't be enough for some people.


Post a pic that makes you lol
in Lulz
And JMac would waste most modern tennis players in his prime. He was cat quick and had a drive to win that these putzes can't even begin to emulate.