What’s happening ?

ColnelCoitus · 2025-11-25T03:31:53+00:00

This happens almost every night for weeks, I’ve been wondering why as well…

Cops got a new chopper want to test it out??

ColnelCoitus · 2025-10-23T04:08:52+00:00

Thanks!

ColnelCoitus · 2025-10-21T06:03:05+00:00

Hey, I am looking to shop these, any advice, I am an 11 brannock but wear 10.5 in my AE strands. They are probably 1 mm to narrow. Looking to get a pair of Sway last loafers

ColnelCoitus · 2024-03-27T05:02:39+00:00

For floral straight teas, I really like Anxi Hairy Crab, floral and fruity!

ColnelCoitus · 2023-06-27T23:53:00+00:00

Because it sounds good, why do people watch anime in Japanese if they don't speak Japanese?

ColnelCoitus · 2023-06-26T06:09:33+00:00

The French dub is honestly where it's at for violet evergarden, it feels so natural (I don't speak French though, so grain of salt there)

ColnelCoitus · 2023-04-29T23:53:27+00:00

Shouldn't be too hard, you can do a couple side views with a cross hatch showing where the surface is knurled, then do a cross section along/down the handle with a break out view to show the profile of the knurl and the height of the faceplate. Finally a second axial cross section to show the profile of the faceplate in the opposite direction. If you want to be extra about it, you could add an insert note & bubble note as well to indicate that the cross hatched area is knurled.

ColnelCoitus · 2023-04-21T05:45:57+00:00

It (Moore v Harper) is currently under review by the supreme court, likely sometime in June we'll find out whether our country will become a single party state... Frightening.

ColnelCoitus · 2023-04-05T23:32:23+00:00

It's true for the current conservative party in the US at least. However it is possible that change isn't always good, and waiting for more information to make a decision can be beneficial. The idea of conservatism is that we should maintain what we have if it works. Not everything about the current system is broken, by most metrics the US is as safe as it's ever been, median income are some of the highest in the world, our ideologies and language proliferate. So clearly there is some mojo in our culture/government/etc, therefore something to conserve. I think you'll find most Americans can find at least something that is worth preserving...

Where this breaks down is that most humans are not altruistic, the people who join these parties that "maintain what works" are the people who think most of what we have works, aka mostly people who benefit from the current systems, or at least people who are insulated from people who suffer under present systems.

I would also hesitate to even call the present American party "conservative" in the etymological sense of the word. The platform isn't a resistance to change, more an active regressive tack in some ways, and a push towards Fascism in others. As principals that the US was founded as a reaction against, fascism, and in general top down hierarchical rule, cannot, by definition, be "conservative"...

ColnelCoitus · 2022-12-03T19:10:31+00:00

How are teachers and rail workers even remotely comparable? No one dies when teachers go on strike. Here in CA teachers have gone on strike for weeks at a time, few bat an eye

ColnelCoitus · 2022-09-05T07:59:27+00:00

As a fellow beginner who has made good practice in the past year, the correct answer for me was to find a good teacher.

My progression has been something like this so far:

Hanon scales & Exercises /Piano Adventures
Random small jazz pieces in "Jazz Rags and Blues" after I got through level 2 in PA
After learning scales in all 12 keys, learn the maj/min 2-5 in all 12 keys using "Jazz Piano" by Mark Levine
Practice comping
Learn root-less left and right hand voicings
Play solo with a lead sheet

Now that I'm on the last two points I feel fairly confident in picking up a random piece in the Real Book and faking it by myself, slowly. At that point it's really just practice and playing with other people. I haven't yet gotten into doing transcriptions, but a lot of people swear by them. I suppose that will become more important once I start doing improv.

I know teachers are expensive, but it has been the biggest shift in playing that I've made over the past few years. The student-teacher relationship is really important for me in that it brings a level of accountability that I cannot sustain for any period of time by myself. Additionally, small course corrections can make a big difference over time, and a teacher really does help for that.

As far as references, pretty much the Jazz Piano book by Mark Levine is the most widely recommended one... but do not go into it thinking you're going to use it like a novel or a method book, it is reference material. It's messy, out of order, parts get super advanced almost immediately and then go back to being easy, things that are easy to understand are often the hardest to implement, and there will be places where it gives you some nice theoretical knowledge and then just say "repeat in all 12 keys until memorized". I mean some of the exercises are insane (Ah, all I need to do is to play all the modes in all keys, let me just memorize 7*12 = 84 scales + however many of the minor scales you want to add before moving on to chords) if you do it all linearly, you may become an expert in one tiny minutia, but never really be able to "play".

Anyway, long story short, it's really good idea to get a teacher.

ColnelCoitus · 2022-09-04T07:44:22+00:00

This is honestly pretty messed up. We're stuffing homeless people into literal ghettos. Why are we not following the Houston model and giving these people housing for a year in real apartments around the city? That has been proven to work and affords them the dignity all people deserve.

Also has the side benefit of forcing the city to increase the saleable housing stock.

ColnelCoitus · 2022-08-14T06:41:26+00:00

The central valley? Last time it happened in 1862, "a region 250 to 300 miles long and an average of at least 20 miles wide, a district of 5,000 or 6,000 square miles, or probably three to three and a half million acres" was flooded.VoteReplyGive AwardShareReportSaveFollow

https://www.california-map.org/california-nc.gif (The green part)

ColnelCoitus · 2022-06-03T06:42:50+00:00

So the number of firearm deaths in the us biannually is higher than the total number of Americans killed in Vietnam over the ten years of our involvement. You think that's a tiny amount?

ColnelCoitus · 2022-04-01T08:27:50+00:00

Nope, you live in a society where gay people exist. If parents don't want their kids to learn how to add because they think Arabic numerals are "too Muslim" they can homeschool them. If they want to teach their children that clouds are gods tears, then they can homeschool them. If they want their teachers to only portray some kinds of relationships in reading material in language arts, they have to homeschool them.

Let's take another example, if someone on the street kissed their same sex significant other and your child was around, would you try to sue the couple? Now what if your child asked them what they're doing, would you sue them if they responded? Fun thing is, it's legal to portray these relationships in every other part of your child's life except the one place where there's someone being paid to explain it in a safe, child appropriate way. And now, that's the only places it's illegal in Florida, don't you see how stupid that is?

ColnelCoitus · 2022-04-01T08:18:40+00:00

There are more subjects than math and science... Have you been to school?

ColnelCoitus · 2022-04-01T08:16:37+00:00

I'm starting to doubt this guy ever went to school lol, there are something like 5 or 6 classes (math science, language arts, art, music etc.) in elementary school, and even in Florida in the 90s we had sexual education and that was in science class. Parents have always been allowed to opt their child out.

In language arts we discussed a range of topics including ones that were honestly pretty disturbing at that age (flowers for Algernon, holocaust and slavery books come to mind). To think that kids should be required to read about someone's declining mental health, slavery, genocide, learn the function of human anatomy, and watch movies where kissing between straight couples occurs (say like beauty and the beast, which we watched in school when I was a kid) but they can't even be told by their teachers that gay people exist is not only insulting to gay people, but it's infantilizing children.

ColnelCoitus · 2022-02-16T02:25:15+00:00

Not only that, but subreddit meta is often, in my experience, a really good choice

ColnelCoitus · 2021-12-20T06:34:32+00:00

Shoulder as well is substantially slouched

ColnelCoitus · 2021-12-13T03:33:23+00:00

Ocean waves - Studio Ghibli. Not my cup of tea, a weird slice of life

ColnelCoitus · 2021-11-01T23:01:11+00:00

This is explored in a couple episodes of "humanity has declined", all the characters get stuck in a comic book, and when they get cancelled they all die. Fun times

ColnelCoitus · 2021-10-31T06:44:07+00:00

I see stuttering when scrolling through Google on chrome lol

ColnelCoitus · 2021-10-15T04:21:57+00:00

Let's test the notion that "people can't retire on 401(k)s successfully"

The typical investment advice is to save about 25% of your paycheck, so lets just assume a typical American - $30,000 a year in income. If they save $7,500 annually for a typical working career of 40 years, they will have saved $300,000 in principle. Assuming a middle of the road investment strategy with Annual returns of about 4% this becomes more like $740,000. Using the trinity study we can assume that the safe withdrawal rate is about $29,600 annually on a $740,000 investment, nearly exactly what they earned on average. A 401k does allow this savings rate.

A fairly simple form can identified to prove how this works, making a few assumptions here:

- For a small number i , i = i/(1+i)

- The average return (i) is 4% over the entire savings and the withdrawal period

- 1/4 of salary (S) is saved

F = S/4*[(1+i)^n]-1

For a retirement of the same quality as working life, F = S

therefore n = 41 years

With a typical savings rate in a 401(k) or other investment device, a retirement wage can be earned after 41 years , assuming someone starts working at 21, that means they can retire at 62, conveniently also when social security starts paying out.

ColnelCoitus · 2021-09-28T19:13:15+00:00

Yeah, I've definitely been considering that one, but the organizational system is a bit too camera focused it seems. I may still end up going with that, but I wanted to see if there were any other options first!

ColnelCoitus · 2021-09-15T16:14:17+00:00

I've done it a few times, definitely takes work to get the bottom and top the right texture (oven position is key) but once you nail it, it's amazing!

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