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Paul Wesley

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  1. You understand that none of this is an argument against vaccines, right? I mean, let's consider an outcome where the whole world gets vaccinated. There would likely be a handful of deaths from cavernous sinus thrombosis or DVT or anaphylaxis. Maybe. AND THEN ALMOST NO ONE ON THE PLANET DIES FROM COVID-19 (you know, in EXACTLY the same way that we don't die from polio and we don't die from smallpox). Furthermore, even if a vaccinated person passes the delta variant to another vaccinated person (which is unlikely), no one dies from that either. Contrast that to a world where no one gets vaccinated, and we continue to suffer socially and economically with years and years of masks and distancing and "hey, kids, don't go near Grandma!" Sporting events and religious ceremonies are life-threatening endeavors. Educating an entire generation is problematic to say the least. Healthcare workers leave the field in droves (which is already happening). And we'll have TENS OF MILLIONS OF MORE DEATHS. But hey, everyone, look at the bright side! THOSE OF US WHO SURVIVE OUR COVID INFECTIONS AND HAVE ANTIBODIES MIGHT BE LESS LIKELY TO GET THE DELTA VARIANT! AS IF THAT WOULD BE A MEANINGFUL FUCKING METRIC. And it also ignores the fact that in an unvaccinated world, there is going to be a lot more delta variant and every other variant bouncing around for generations to come. Your post is an excellent example of how anti-vaxxers will always find conspiracies, half-truths, and fallacious arguments, and they'll repeat all of them to anyone who will listen... despite overwhelming evidence that they're wrong. Apologies to the board for engaging the obvious troll, but there might be a few people out there on the fence of whether to take the vaccine, and I wouldn't want those people to mistake GRHorn's nonsense for a meaningful argument. Thank God we got smallpox off the table a few decades before the trolls got broadband. We'll never do anything like that again.
  2. Yeah, I have a good friend who is a big sports fan... MLB, NFL, NHL... everything except for NBA basketball. He says the randomness and inconsistency of officiating ruins the game for him. This game would certainly bolster his argument. Oh... and he's from Milwaukee.
  3. Booker jumping up looking for the call... I don't have the words.
  4. Crowder is getting calls like he's Jordan. Three very iffy calls in the past few minutes, and he got them all.
  5. And for decades, I’m pretty sure that what the conservatives cement into textbooks in this state— that spills widely into other states, because Texas is a 500-pound gorilla when it comes to ordering textbooks.
  6. Ambitious and cool. Keep chopping.
  7. Then it wasn't fentanyl. You really shouldn't argue this.
  8. I rarely dive into these debates, but this right-wing talking point about George Floyd is 100% fucking horse shit. Fentanyl is a very short-acting drug. If you overdose on it, you *immediately* go unconscious and stop breathing. That's it. It doesn't sneak up on you an hour later. The idea that Floyd took a "lethal amount," and was walking around a convenience store, then arguing with officers, then resisting getting into a police car with such force that numerous officers were unable to shove him in there, then just suddenly died from fentanyl (while an officer was kneeling on his neck)... it's just profoundly stupid. If someone is gasping "I can't breathe," then you can be 100% sure they are not dying from fucking fentanyl.
  9. Agreed. And they look more like years of commando-style raids and terroristic violence. There's a podcast called "It could happen here" that lays out some plausible scenarios. I would say one (of many) step we could take is to stop using bullshit flags (Blue Lives Matter or the Confederate battle flag) like we saw on January 6. Do we agree to live in and support an American democracy? Great, then we can debate policy and decide what we want our country to look like, but that's the only fucking flag anyone needs.
  10. "Indoctrinate?" Are you fucking kidding me? Yeah, don't "indoctrinate" them with science while they're enrolled in a University that prides itself on research prowess.
  11. All day I've been trying to wrap my head around choosing to *not* vaccinating a bunch of 21-year olds who are going to bars/parties/practices/classes/etc.... while trying to win a national championship. I mean, it's just profoundly stupid. Out of curiosity - and because maybe I'm an asshole - I looked at a map of their campus to see how hard it would have been. There's a CVS about 500 feet from their stadium, giving FREE VACCINES WITH NO APPOINTMENT. So now I gotta either root for those fucking idiots to overcome Darwin's attempt to take them out of the gene pool *OR* the SEC!SEC!SEC! team that's going to fail upwards into the finals. Just as an aside here... as of about a month ago, the covid rate among unvaccinated people was roughly the same as some of the worst months of 2020. In other words, the numbers look really good, because the vaccinated people are still in the denominator, but they're overwhelmingly not getting sick, or they're getting very mild cases. Take them out, and the numbers suddenly don't look so great. Somebody send this screenshot to the NC State coaches:
  12. That stat kills me. And Greg Bown, whatever his faults are, is a very aggressive rebounder, and one of the most athletic guys on the court (I mean, the five minutes or so he was on the court).
  13. Good post, but this last part sounded really familiar. Any chance that in some other lifetime you were Bill in Sinton?
  14. Yeah, that was my first reaction. I've seen both Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo separately, but 2 hours of that band would have been pretty bad ass. I saw the Joshua Tree tour in Austin that year. Great show. I saw the Cars on the tour before this one (Heartbeat City), and like everyone else pointed out, it was a pretty low-energy show. Several of these acts I've seen multiple times (Petty, Clapton). The two hall-of-famer acts on there that I never saw live are Bowie and Rush. My sleeper would be the double bill of Billy Idol (who I think is an underrated songwriter) and the Cult (who wrote a lot of great rock songs in the 80's). In fact, I might put that one above Rush.
  15. That's cool.
  16. Yeah, it would simplify your signal path by a lot.
  17. Fantastic. Looks like fun. I need a Volante. You need a Mobius.
  18. I was about to say the same thing. Just endless fucking blathering, one story after another after another after another.
  19. Friend of mine who was a Dallas native took me to see them in Houston in the early 90's. Fantastic bar band.
  20. Love that mini vent. If I had a pedalboard the size of a ping pong table, that would definitely be on it.
  21. I think y'all saw it upstream, but here it is again: I think this photo is a couple years old. Y'all have seen it before. There have been some additions and subtractions since then. 80% of these pedals are permanent. The board itself is from custompedalboards.co.uk They make boards that are exactly sized to use with some of the common pedal switchers like gigrig and Boss. I cut and soldered all my own cables. In order of signal path: COMPRESSION/BOOST That Cali76 is an 1176-style compressor. I'm working on a funk project, and using a Strat with bridge pickup into that gets you to Nile Rogers territory. Outside of trying to be Nile, the Sex Drive has all the compression I would otherwise want. So the Cali76 sometimes gets pulled in favor of an Empress parametric EQ (if the EQ on the amp isn't getting me there) or a little EP boost. OVERDRIVE Love the King of Tone. It's perfect for what I want to do... Very natural low and medium gains that can be combined with the amp's overdrive to add just a bit more hair. Thorpy FX Fallout Cloud - My favorite fuzz. It replaced an analogman sun face (for half as much money), and I think it gives you that sound in a slightly more controlled way (less hiss, squealing, chaos). As much as I love it, it doesn't get stepped on all that often, and I might get a little more use out of another dual overdrive like Duellist or Protein. MODULATION That white pedal on the top right is a Walrus Audio octave pedal -- like a POG with a much smaller footprint -- and I think it tracks better and sounds better than a POG. Thorpy FX Deep Oggin - has already been sold. It's cool, but too expensive and rarely got used. It got replaced by a Boss Dimension C. Because the 80's. Empress phaser - Again, I've been working on a funk record, and this one has some settings with envelope filters so it can quack like a meatball. This is the only pedal where I think, "Too many modes, too many knobs, takes too long to dial something in." Mobius - Damn, I'm impressed with this thing. I'll admit that it can't mimic *every* phaser/flanger/chorus pedal ever made, but I think it gets reeeeeeaaal close to almost all of them... without spending hours deep in the menus. It will never come off the board. DELAY/REVERB Strymon Timeline - Seems like it's become ubiquitous. Hall of Fame Reverb - Kind of "meh" on it, but I have a couple amps that don't have reverb, so I need something there at the end of the chain. Sometimes I take off a modulation pedal and add a second delay, and set that one to a short slap. I also have an old TC Electronic Novadelay, that I think sounds fantastic and has a very simple interface and layout, but it's A) a big footprint, and B) it has a weird voltage requirement (requires its own power supply under the board, which is a pain in the ass). Those two factors make it inconvenient. I should probably sell it. POWER SUPPLY Hidden under that middle row of pedals is a Walrus Audio Phoenix. I wish it had a couple more outputs that provide high amps for all the modern digital stuff, because that is often a limiting factor on what can live on the board at the same time. But I ain't starting over again. ----- My skill as a guitarist falls well short of being worthy of this board. I think I'm a decent songwriter and singer, but I am definitely not any sort of guitar wizard. For me, it's a writing tool, and a source of inspiration... certain pedal combinations and sounds lead to riffs and melodies that I would otherwise never come upon.
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