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1 minute ago, G650 said:
I think most people have the correct opinion the EHX makes cool pedals that are built amazingly shitty. I've had a black Russian Muff since it was new. I love it, but I've had to repair it innumerable times, including just this past month. Had to have my buddy the pedal builder send me some 100k pots.
Surprised you are using reverb on a Bassman, they have so much natural resonance with that cab.
have you ever wanted to power strum one chord and let the six minute decay begin, set your guitar down for a little feedback, walk over to the other side of the room, and play something along with it on the piano or drums? because that's the perfect setup for doing so.
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jack white is definitely making a run at being the new joe bonamassa in the sense of an insane amount of digital ink being spilled over their merits as a guitarist/musician/etc... for someone i could not care less about. in the case of joe b, i literally had never heard of him before this site. in the case of jack white, i have never heard a song by the white stripes in my life that made me think "i need to hear that again, that was awesome."
not hating on jack white, don't really care. but i definitely am not a fan of the musical stylings coming from the white stripes. it was cool during the euros in 2012 when the fans started the whole seven nation army stadium chant theme. other than that, the biggest "meh" of all time.
as for fuzz, hate on electroharmonix all you want but i love my big muff...paired with a tube screamer or klon and a reverb/delay pedal through my fender 59 bassman, it is my favorite hard rock tone of all time (that i can make).
for today's outrage at the assault on human decency from the r.s. controversy-generation list, gibbons at 102, stevie vai at 127, and bill frisell at 154 feel a little offensive.
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That WR that just caught that TD for huskies is from Lufkin, Tx.
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This is a hell of a response drive from ducks.
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4 minutes ago, MrBig said:
Stupid question, but do they give out shirts to make the color checker pattern or does everyone just know what to wear based on the stadium section?
Emails all week
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So pumped for this game. Should be a great one.
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Between that one and the two blatant ones at the point of attack that weren’t called against ou last week, I’m starting to wonder if it is still against the rules to tackle a runner by the facemask.
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If you guys start doing cheese puns, I’m out.
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1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:28 minutes ago, Deej said:
"The middle picture is Dave Chappelle"
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Damnit, that's the one i used for my little RJ silly tune.
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22 minutes ago, Napoleon said:
I hope that we don’t have to ever read another “When Clapton saw _____ play, he left in frustration because he knew that he would never be able to play at that level.” comment again.
The video of the fat lady plucking away made me chuckle.
get it right...that idiotic mythology goes:
"when asked what it is like to be the world's best guitarist...clapton said 'ask prince.'"
list totally invalidated by not having @Goredho and @Celery Man in the top 50 imo.
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On 10/12/2023 at 7:20 AM, NoRagrets said:
Some Mac update has my Mac not connecting to my docking station (large screen and keyboard) not my USB mixer thing (Strindberg).
Help! Can’t record now…
you probably just need to check the manufacturer of your mixer to see if they have a driver update for osx sonoma.
any time you do one of the major osx updates from one name to another, you are usually going to slightly jack with those. it usually takes all the plugin and hardware companies about a month to update their software to play nice...so it is a good idea to wait for a month or two before updating your mac to new osx version if you are using it heavily for music.
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You knew it was coming...as will all the eye rolls of the lists' perceived slights and errors. But regardless...
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-guitarists-1234814010/chuck-berry-14-1234814185/
getting the outrage controversy started...my submission is the notion of SRV at 20 behind some of the people in front of him is silly.
i will go ahead and voice @BrickHorn's outrage of prince being 14 even thought it is one i'd probably agree with.
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Just now, G650 said:You are just doing what Brisket is in this post. These aren't the only two options. To engage in Realpolitik will take a lot more than this into account and choose a complex nuanced path of many actions.
In my opinion there have not been any true examples of realpolitik since the 19th century anyway, Kissinger and a few Soviets are the only one's who have even played footsie with realpolitik since.
you do make a fair point that there are an infinite number of alternative realpolitik paths that...frankly, would end much better than the current path. the u.s., the e.u., and the gulf states could impose some good alternatives. but it would be necessary to engage at a rational and practical level for those and that's simply not realistic in the short-term unfortunately given the impassioned moral and ideological states of the belligerents.
unfortunately, those are the choices once a direct response is executed. in any alternative you propose that isn't simply idealistic, there is certainly suffering.
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1 minute ago, G650 said:The issue is they don't pose a realpolitik inquiry, but absolute emotional impulse. Good and evil? Jesus.
Funny you bring it up though because I was considering trolling Brisket with an Bismark reference but thought better of it.
of course it does. maybe brisket's hyper-emotional and dramatic language characterizing a revelations like battle for the soul of humankind confuses it, sure...but there remains a legitimate inquiry.
you've been ruthlessly attacked by an aggressor. that aggressor strategically retreats behind civilians. you hold categorically that above all things, no civilians can be harmed.
you're then faced with the inquiry...accept the violence perpetrated and say sorry as chainsaw has suggested or respond in-kind with violence knowing civilians will be inevitably harmed as brisket suggests?
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56 minutes ago, 'stache said:Germany? Japan? Italy? I agree humans are shit but there are levels of shittiness. Circumstances are very different and I don’t have the bandwidth to go through them all, but this post is solely in response to your very broad statement that evil societies can’t change. Seems like it was only a decade or two that German society went from eradicating Jews and trying to take over the world to having their culture celebrated worldwide during Oktoberfest. Like one of Norm McDonalds best bits, “you’d think they wouldn’t be allowed to be a country anymore,” but I guess they got their genocidal tendencies out and are now a world economic power.
52 minutes ago, Helobious said:What about what happened in Germany and Japan? Two nations each heading a couple of the most bloodthirsty campaigns in history. You’d have no idea looking at their societies even 20 years later.
hate getting dragged into this because there is no right and wrong on all of this unfortunately...just posturing (lots of it sanctimonious) from every angle from largely unaffected observers leveraging this for entertainment and to pass the time.
however, to this specific point...germany and japan were brought to heel by annihilation with literally (not figuratively) the most destructive force the world has ever seen and the complete and utter slaughter of civilians to devastating effect and subsequently, were effectively neutered for half a century by the rest of the world imposing violent threat. at least 25,000 people were killed in dresden alone. across all the bombing campaigns, at least 350,000 german civilians. 200,000-300,000 people were killed in hiroshima and nagasaki alone. what the world was willing to do to "rehabilitate" germany and japan far exceeded the atrocities of anything ever since. and there is a very strong and persuasive argument that they were justified...as well as strong and persuasive arguments that they were not. but at the end of the day, their societal "evil" was snuffed out by learning in the grossest possible way that they could not impose violence as effectively as their adversaries...and it was their fault. but if you are going to point to germany and japan as wonderful test cases of rehabilitation, you cannot ignore the violence perpetrated on them to bring them there...which is what israel would absolutely love to do right now.
just keep that in mind while waxing poetic about the nature of humanity...particularly when you have never been faced with legitimate threats to survival.
@SydneyCarton's post above generally captures to reality here imo. brisket and others are acting emotionally. no doubt about it. but they do pose a realpolitik inquiry that is just being conveniently ignored by those who have the luxury of projecting self-righteousness on this message board and saying "well i don't need to answer your question because i can't." no rational person wants civilians to die, that's a given. note: when i say rational person, that does not include the many pieces of shit we have on this board that get off to the idea of palestinian genocide.
but if one accepts that hamas is strategically utilizing civilians as shields and that hamas has acted belligerently in a barbaric way...and then impose the notion of "you are not allowed to have any civilian collateral damage under any circumstances," then one is truly at an impasse. and so what is israel to do if one believes they have a right to respond...when the only response inevitably includes collateral damage due to the tactics of the adversary? dispassionately stating categorically and unequivocally that israel should not kill palestinian civilians does not make you righteous, particularly from the comforts of the other side of the globe. it is a basic position of any decent person and it is what any reasonable person believes. but if one adopts that categorical imperative in a context in which hamas has demonstrated a willingness to strike at your civilians violently and then retreat behind the walls of hospitals to avoid reprisal, then one is faced with the question...what can israel reasonably do? don't hide behind not being a "military strategist." you have to confront that reality: either israel can do nothing in service of avoiding civilian casualties at all costs given hamas's strategy and must just absorb the violence as a reprisal for their past sins (which are many)...or you have to allow for some gross consequences that will undoubtedly be abused by an emotional aggressor that has just been severely hurt.
and of course, EVERYTHING i just said can be reasonably flipped on the other side in this particular scenario. to huckleberry and wildcat's point...if you are a member of an oppressed and abused underclass of society and you unjustly exist in a prison-esque state of apartheid for generations, one is faced with the realpolitik inquiry of do you demonstrate a willingness to impose violence en masse to your oppressors to impose change and are your barbaric acts justified by that? strong and persuasive argument for. strong and persuasive argument that you should also not indiscriminately murder children.
it's tragically why this is so nasty and has been for a very long time. it is one of the worst manifestations of humanity we have conjured in our time. and unfortunately, it will continue to be until i become king and euthanize everyone on the planet besides me and all the italian women that look like monica bellucci, the spanish women that look like penelope cruz, the south american women that look like ana de armas.
tldr: i love hot mediterranean and south american women and everyone else should leave them and me alone.
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3 minutes ago, utee94 said:
What the fuck is wrong with you, Twitter??
it exists in order to utilize useful idiots like the poster here to sow discord and make people scared.
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14 minutes ago, DixonHur said:I volunteer to be responsible for assessing exacerbated cleavages.
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8 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:
cross posting this from the cr thread in response to your tweet.
israel is faced with deciding whether it wants to buck the notion that there is no military solution to counterterrorism. it's not that there isn't a solution...it's just that it is not palatable to most of the western world. other parts of the world have less queasiness about it. ask the tamil tigers in sri lanka. but roughly 20k civilians were killed as a result.
if israel goes this route, they are going to have to be ready to go full out war because such action will result in a full engagement of iran not only through hamas but also from the north through hezbollah who has a whole bunch (between 100k-150k) of long range missiles that can overwhelm the iron dome...as well as militants in the west bank engaging. with that type of three front situation, israel will be potentially forced into engaging iran directly in order for it to pressure iran to call off its henchmen.
the magnitude of the civilian hostages that were seized makes the calculus much more complex in the near term. if third party back channels don't do a lot of work to get some resolution on this and finding some fall guy trophies, this is going to get even nastier. the u.s., gulf state, and iran unofficial lines of communication need to get something done.
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43 minutes ago, Porterhouse said:I just can’t believe that’s how anyone would look at the current developments and distill it down to this. This is an insane distortion of the facts who should bear culpability.
i think this line appropriately applies to anyone trying to distill anything related to israel and palestine to anything simple and one-sided. just a reminder...
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4 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:Besides SA making a statement that blames Israel, has there been anything else from them? They obviously have supported Hamas before, but as it has been mentioned, they are at odds with Iran.
A few years back I worked for a Saudi owned company and one reason I left is I didn’t like the idea of working for those fuckers (how women, Jews, etc are treated). And again, I find myself working with them (not for them) and I still don’t much like the idea.saudi arabia officially severed relations with hamas in 2007 and has not been friendly since. s.a. largely sees them as an arm of iran and the muslim brotherhood which they treat adversarial. that said, hamas has been making an effort to thaw relations with them for the last few months and they are both "sunni."
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israel is faced with deciding whether it wants to buck the notion that there is no military solution to counterterrorism. it's not that there isn't a solution...it's just that it is not palatable to most of the western world. other parts of the world have less queasiness about it. ask the tamil tigers in sri lanka. but roughly 20k civilians were killed as a result.
if israel goes this route, they are going to have to be ready to go full out war because such action will result in a full engagement of iran not only through hamas but also from the north through hezbollah who has a whole bunch (between 100k-150k) of long range missiles that can overwhelm the iron dome...as well as militants in the west bank engaging. with that type of three front situation, israel will be potentially forced into engaging iran directly in order for it to pressure iran to call off its henchmen.
the magnitude of the civilian hostages that were seized makes the calculus much more complex in the near term. if third party back channels don't do a lot of work to get some resolution on this and finding some fall guy trophies, this is going to get even nastier. the u.s., gulf state, and iran unofficial lines of communication need to get something done.
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1 minute ago, Pancho said:
Goggles’ crew had the Alabama game last year
you're right...campbell and alvarez look the same to me for some reason. /alittleracist
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1 minute ago, FirstTimeCaller said:
Google maps shows the distance as the crow flies at around 1,150 miles. As you see, I said just over a billion. I used San Diego because it is a large, well-known city. But yes, technically it would be around Yuma, AZ. Or if you go the other way, you can say Orlando, FL.
if you want to give me $150 million ameros, i will take them.
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Israel-Hamas war thread
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a fisherman always spots another fisherman from afar.
or in this case, a corrupt, autocratic, rights violating and fucked up government always spots another corrupt, autocratic, rights violating and fucked up government from afar.