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Thermos H. Christ

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  1. Generally not the biggest fan of the huge arena type productions. Most of my favorite/most memorable shows have been at clubs and such (SXSW is amazing for seeing great acts in intimate venues). And I can't separate "best show" from "show I was the most into while I was there," except that I have to give extra points to any show that left a big enough impression to change the direction of my musical taste for a while. But anyway here's what jumps to mind in chronological order. 

    Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Emo's in 2003

    White Stripes at Stubb's in 2003

    Shapestatic/Kri in the forest somewhere outside of Austin in 2005

    Lemurians at Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors NYC 2006 

    Clipse and Re-Up Gang at Mohawk SXSW 2008

    Girl Talk at 40 Acres Fest 2010

    Neutral Milk Hotel at Fun Fun Fun Fest 2014

    Cherry Glazerr at Cheer Up Charlie's SXSW 2017

    White Reaper at 21st Street Coop SXSW 2018

  2. 49 minutes ago, TexasEd said:

    Any tips on a beginner's looper pedal on a budget?  I've thought about saving for a better amp, but they are harder to sneak in the house.

     

    Zoom G1on and B1on both have a fully functional looper, a very basic drum machine, a great tuner, and like 100 other effects ranging from crummy to surprisingly decent, all for 60 bucks. You can easily spend more than that on a pedal tuner alone, so probably worth a shot. Really it's a great beginner's anything on a budget, at the very least it lets you experiment with all kinds of things and figure out if that's something where you'd want to invest in a non-beginner non-budget version.

    For a little more you can get one with an expression pedal. I'm sure you can get one from somewhere with a return policy if you have doubts.

  3. I've been using a Zoom B1on as my only pedal with my bass rig, almost exclusively as an always-on compressor. I've been thinking I want to add a very mild/transparent drive to give me just a little hint of breakup, and I've also thought I wouldn't mind having a better compressor.

    So I've ordered a used Durham Electronics Sex Drive.

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    Can do that mild grit thing AND it has a compressor that is very well-regarded, even if it's not adjustable (one switch that toggles between soft, hard, and off). I'm ok with not having a ton of control over every parameter if the alternative is "you turn it on and it sounds good." A compressor good enough that the ovni lab guy said instantly became one of his favorites has to be good enough for my amateur punk rocking bullshit. And shelling out $140 for TWO boutique effects that happen to be the exact ones I want doesn't seem too crazy to me. I'm excited for it to arrive.

    Would've preferred to find one of the older, larger ones just because I think they look cooler, but the above is what was available in good condition at the right price at the right time. Old one for reference:

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  4. Remember in 2016 when Trump won an election that no other GOP primary candidate would have won by going to the rust belt and pretending to be Michael Moore? Promising affordable universal health care and generally presenting himself as the champion fighting for the interests of the working class over the big businesses who sold them out? Predictably, the Trump/Ryan/McConnell machine has done nothing except reduce access to healthcare, favor big business over workers and consumers, and generally do their very best to make life harder for poor people whenever possible.

    Bernie also did pretty well in the rust belt/midwest primaries.

    That's why the good people of the DNC, after absorbing the hard lessons of their unfathomable pants-shitting faceplant in the 2016 election, have concluded that populist candidates have no chance and the party's only hope of returning to relevance is running tepid corporate-owned centrists (ideally a Kennedy or a Rockefeller or somesuch if possible) and being "civil." Now that the highest-ranking Dem in Congress got primaried by a left-leaning populist, they're doubling down and telling us that we might as well just give up on ever winning the midwest if such people are even going to have a seat at the table in a hypothetical Dem congress. Because they so clearly have their finger on the pulse of that region.

    How did these become the only viable options? And how hard did the Simpsons nail it on this one (DNC vs RNC) lo those many years ago?

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  5. Poor Ron Paul just accidentally keeps putting his name on wildly racist stuff. Weird. Even if he honest-to-goodness had nothing to do with any of it and it was all employees and aides putting stuff out under his name, perhaps he should examine why he has these racist people around him and speaking on his behalf.

    Then again, at least it's honest. As if anyone warning against the evils of "cultural marxism" is not primarily concerned with maintaining the supremacy of the white Anglo-American heterosexual male in all possible spheres of existence.

  6. 22 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    That's a fair point, if you simply go from CEO to President, there is a tremendous amount of on-the-job training that one would undergo that is not ideal.

    And there's already going to be more on-the-job learning than one would probably like, just because basically nobody has experience being the President. I'm sure there's a lot of concepts that carry over from being the governor of a state but it's most definitely not the same job. Pretty much everyone who's ever been in a position to comment, including Trump I believe, has said that it's harder than they figured it would be.

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  7. 10 minutes ago, Tony Soprano said:

    I don't even know what color you are. It doesn't matter. Everything is not about race. 

    Of course everything is not about race. But race is a thing. Enough of a thing that people categorized as being different races often don't have the luxury of just acting like it isn't. How willfully dense do you have to be to think hundreds years of slavery and systematic official oppression, not to mention widespread and pervasive prejudice, just vaporized in less than the space of one lifetime and everything got reset to zero where it's a level playing field?

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  8. Alt-left is like, twitter tankies, not Bill Fucking Clinton. 

    e: Also most of the women in the vagina yelling picture look like they'd be attractive when not actively making a rage-shout face.

  9. 5 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    You are the same rotting flesh as the rest of us.  This moment isn’t special.  America will be here tomorrow and the next day.  You aren’t special.  There are a myriad of opportunities in this country waiting to be taken.  Wake up and do your fucking job.  

    I do fine, not 1% or anything but comfortable. Professional, very low 6 figures, homeowner, all that. It’s not about me personally deserving more. I have plenty. Now. I didn’t always. It’s not about what I personally need anymore. It’s about all the people who don’t have what they need. It’s about wanting to live in a society that’s better than this. It’s about not being another useful idiot making $100k who has been suckered into thinking they have more in common with the billionaire class than with people who make $25k.

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  10. Don’t stop. They’ve felt untouchable for so long. They’re not. They need to know that. They need to know we’ve got them surrounded, hundreds of millions of us, and they who have for so long been insulated from the consequences of their actions are starting to feel a little smaller and more human and vulnerable right now.

    Keep going everybody. Don’t let up. And let useless fucking go-along-to-get-along Democrats hear from you too. How fucking shameful is it that a handful of pissed off people have brought more consequences to bear on Trump and his collaborators than the entire Democratic Party?

    This has gone far enough. They need to feel the heat. All of them. Every day. 

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  11. 51 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

     the majority of trump supporters have never left their local communities or states.  

    Nobody ever went broke telling older Americans to be terrified of the world beyond their driveway.

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  12. 4 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Wearing a MAGA hat in public is dumber than wearing a jersey in public.

     Politics are not a sport's team. Also, grown human beings in jerseys is stupid. Therefore, stupidity.

    Kind of the whole disease we see in our voters/media/political class. Too many think the political process is about something other than the real consequences of policy (and rhetoric) in the real lives of human beings, and it really shows.

  13. 28 minutes ago, Aphelion said:

    Regarding the maga hats, what if a patron was wearing a Republican party shirt that did not reference Trump?  Someone many find that offensive these days; would that be sufficient for refusing service or do you think an owner would be out of line for tossing someone over that?

     Regarding informing family members to keep political shit to themselves, I think there is a time for that and certain lines that need to be drawn if they bring it up relentlessly, but I think politely but firmly engaging is the better option.  It's not likely that you will change their mind, but it is good for them to see that there are good people who simply don't see things the way they do.  I don't think we should be encouraging shunning and isolation; this only entrenches people and makes it easier for each side to vilify the other.  

    

    As to the Republican party shirt that didn't reference Trump, if I were a restaurant owner I don't see myself telling someone they have to remove it or leave, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it would be unethical. As to whether that would be "out of line," to me it would probably depend on what kind of business we're talking about and who the clientele/employees are. If someone wears a pro-GOP t-shirt and gets turned away by the bouncer at a NYC gay bar then that doesn't seem out of line at all, the t-shirt wearer is the one who is out of line. If it's a gas station in LA and they're telling someone they can't fill up because of their GOP t-shirt (or damn near any t-shirt), I would personally consider that unreasonable.

    With the family member thing, I was kind of building in the assumption that reasoning with them had previously been tried and failed. And that it would also naturally be a part of whatever discussion there would be about actually you are not invited to Thanksgiving this year. I certainly wouldn't go so far as to say people have some moral/ethical obligation to do that. Biting your tongue while relatives say reprehensible/racist shit is a longstanding Thanksgiving tradition in itself, after all. But I wouldn't blame anyone who did, either.

  14. 1 hour ago, Bill Clinton said:

    Why did they get rid of Saddam again?

    The truly amazing thing is, I'm still not sure we know. We know it wasn't the pretextual reasons they gave. It was and is blatantly obvious that they were doing everything they could to make a case for something they already wanted to do, meaning they knew that the real reasons they wanted to do it wouldn't persuade the American people or even the meager number of allies we managed to bring in on that.

    I think the most likely answer is simple imperialism, they thought they could create a friendly client-state that would control extremely valuable resources and deal with us on favorable terms. Potentially also had to do with W having a personal desire to finish something his dad started. Or to bring about the final battle of Armageddon and set the stage for return of Christ - remember that in W's era fundamentalism/evangelicalism was HUGE and very politically prominent. W being on a mission from God and needing to go to war to fulfill prophecies was a small but very real part of the overall conversation in the leadup to that war.

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  15. 17 hours ago, Aphelion said:

    Do you think restaurants and other service businesses should refuse service only to people directly working for/collaborating with Trump or does this extend to anyone who supports Trump or the republicans in any capacity (e.g. those who vote R)?  

    I would stop short of businesses refusing service to people just voting R, although I don't know how a business would even know something like that. If it's the sort of thing a random business would be aware of, it's probably enough (e.g. prominent donor or somesuch). Certainly I think a business would be more than justified in telling someone they can't wear a MAGA hat on the premises, much like any other article of clothing that might reasonably be expected to make a meaningful number of patrons/employees feel offended, annoyed, or even threatened.

    But with mere voters, I think pressure is much more appropriate in the personal arena than the commercial one. Don't date/fuck Trump voters or supporters (already widely adopted in most metro areas, extremely common to see dating profiles saying Trump voters need not apply). Tell family members to, at a bare minimum, keep that shit to themselves or you're not interested in speaking to them. That stuff matters.

  16. 1 minute ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Remember, President Trump has repeatedly said he's a big fan of using eminent domain. And not just for Government projects. He really loves the Kelo decision, for example. 

    Well of course he does. Why should anybody be allowed to tell Donnie no, to anything, for any reason?

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