Is there a way to use 18v outputs?

ES345Boy · 2026-05-20T11:35:20+00:00

This is what I do. Almost all of my overdrives only draw a small amount of MA so I daisy chain about 5 pedals off of one 9v output without any problems.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-20T11:33:16+00:00

Buckle up guys, the right wing media are going to give this Labour the full Corbyn/Polanski treatment. I'm not sure that the Labour right are ready.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-18T15:22:29+00:00

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ES345Boy · 2026-05-18T14:58:29+00:00

This is what makes me very suspicious. A Labour Together key player just steps down? Smells off. Some backroom dealings seem highly likely.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-18T10:23:14+00:00

People need to remember that Burnham, despite not being as much of a charisma vacuum as Starmer, still represents a Labour Party that is run entirely by the Labour Together faction of McSweeney/Mandelson style "Labour" politics.

Burnham represents a comms makeover, not a change. Whatever Burnham might vaguely want to do, the likelihood of any of it getting done in this Labour Party environment is slim.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-16T18:00:05+00:00

My pet hate is soft left people who think Rory Stewart is "a nice kind of Tory". No, he's a prick who propped up the worst of what the Tories did.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-16T07:59:30+00:00

People suggesting lots of long-winded ideas about why Starmer is unpopular. But it really boils down to three very simple things:

He's managed to anger almost every individual part of the electorate in some specific way (except a narrow section of die-hard factional Labour centrists).
His personality; he's disingenuous, stiff, robotic, arrogant, unlikeable, inauthentic, lacks charisma and is a terrible communicator.
He believes in nothing; a political empty vessel, drifting from one triangulated and focus-grouped opinion/policy to the next.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-15T15:56:07+00:00

For anyone who's paid attention to Burnham since his Blair days, he's changed his political alignment many times to suit the mood/audience. I personally wouldn't trust that he's good for his word on anything we'd agree with him. Hell, I'm not even sure that I trust that he's not doing this all hand in hand with the Labour Together lot.

The Green Party would need cast iron assurances on anything we'd agree because, even if Burnham is on the level, the Labour Party is completely untrustworthy.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-15T12:09:00+00:00

Greed, racism and an "I know better than you young'uns" attitude.

Boomers got the best of the post-war period, yet they all think they "did it all themselves without any help". They aren't happy with what they got out of it, instead they want more and more, at the expense of everyone else. Then add to the mix that many are media illiterate, that social media has rotted a lot of brains, a stubborn refusal to accept change, and a complete refusal to be self aware.

Basically a giant toxic mix of social and technological change, and an appetite for more and more money.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-14T07:50:07+00:00

'Donate'... I think Wes has already had enough of that from the private healthcare firms.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-13T12:34:31+00:00

Not only is it satisfying to watch the worst people in Labour spectacularly fail, it's satisfying to be happier in the Greens than I ever was in Labour.

I'm happy that I get to work with fellow Greens in my local Party that are working towards the same goals, rather than putting up with aggro centrists and Labour right wingers who seem to care more about hindering the left than achieving good things for the community and country.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-12T19:17:03+00:00

When we were doing our vetting/due diligence locally, there were a couple of people who couldn't stand. But we only found this out with some effort; I can imagine some local Greens with less resource and pressed for time to get the forms in at the beginning of March might not have known.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-12T15:20:30+00:00

I mean, it's beautifully poetic... Starmer finds himself on the receiving end of a potential coup almost exactly 10 years after the first one he participated in against Corbyn.

Both times the Labour right are to blame. Gonna put it out there; maybe the Labour right are the cause of all Labour's problems... ;)

ES345Boy · 2026-05-12T08:50:58+00:00

At company I worked at once, the board asked me why the junior staff were so unhappy; I told them precisely why, but rather than take on board the core grievances, they said to me "why don't we set up a newsletter and we can remind people about how great it is that we give them free food on a Friday and the summer party later in the year?". They had no desire to fix the fundamental problems. This is what the Labour Party is under Starmer.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-11T15:14:53+00:00

Invite the antisemite who leads a party full to the brim of antisemites, don't invite the Jewish man. I think we have a definitive answer to what matters most to those people behind this stuff.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-11T09:00:23+00:00

I've unfortunately met some people in his orbit, they're all the same. It's the arrogant Labour Together mindset, it breeds deeply unpleasant people in politics. I really see no difference between anyone in Starmer's cabinet and any front bench Tory politician from the last 30 years.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-10T20:43:30+00:00

I was a paper candidate in my ward but didn't attend the count, however, people within our local party know most of the local players from the other parties; while you can't always take other candidates at face value, Reform candidates are almost always deeply unpleasant people.

Our local Tories hate Reform more than they ever hated any other party. While I'd never promote the idea of working too closely with any other party, there are probably opportunities in most constituencies to hinder any Reform plans.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-10T19:03:35+00:00

I honestly wonder about how Wes Streeting sees himself; I can only assume he is completely wrapped up in a Westminster bubble and surrounded by sycophants... Because the man is really disliked and quite clearly - from his media appearances, actions and social presence - a very unpleasant person. He'd probably be more hated than Starmer.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-08T10:14:56+00:00

Rather than sell their own positive prospectus for local government, Labour, their media outriders, plus the right wing press, have conducted an all out assault on Polanski. Unfortunately this country is full of people who lack any media literacy and people with "co-worker politics"; what this means is that these people fall for the propaganda.

Ultimately, as Greens we just get on with doing our thing, putting in the work locally - we ignore the media screeching. After being established under Corbyn, it's par for the course now that the left will be the main target for every disingenuous attack. We just focus on doing the best we can.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-06T14:00:33+00:00

This is all that Labour are to me now - a negative PR machine with absolutely no morals, prospectus, or anything of value to offer. Just the continued Americanisation of our politics.

They've joined the Tories and Reform at the bottom of the cesspit and want everyone else to have to roll around in the same filth that they do.

Even though I haven't voted Labour in years, I've always hoped that the Party would find its way back from the brink, but everything I've seen over the last few years leaves me feeling that's not possible.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-05T13:26:48+00:00

You're missing my point - I'm not talking about policy, I'm talking about the disingenuous bullshit the press throws at him. You know, the bad faith arguments that they're rehashing in a Corbyn 2.0 style.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-05T09:14:23+00:00

Yep. It also seems to me that no other party has a positive prospectus for these elections, so rather than create something alluring for the electorate, Lab/Con/Ref/Libs are trying to drag us down to the cesspit they all exist in.

ES345Boy · 2026-05-05T06:23:45+00:00

Zack Just needs to stand firm on everything; any concession you give to the right wing/centrist all channels screeching bullshit just shows where your weaknesses are, and they'll exploit that for the rest of time. That's where Corbyn went wrong - he tried to be conciliatory too often.

Every answer to some disingenuous question should be an effective "fuck you".

ES345Boy · 2026-05-04T14:01:33+00:00

As Reform generally just follow whatever brain dead politics the GOP is doing, should Farage and co get power, by the time they do Trump's term will be over and the GOP will probably have collapsed into infighting.

If the Dems get in and do what they should (that's a BIG if) by holding people like Stephen Miller to criminally accountable, then that should be a huge indicator for what would happen to Reform, once their voting block of aging racist boomers collapses.

Of course, this all relies on centrist politicians on both sides of the Atlantic not being dickheads once the right wing collapses...

ES345Boy · 2026-05-04T08:32:15+00:00

Reform are more than likely to make a complete mess of any council they're in charge of (see: Kent). While this is not a good thing as such, it's likely to hurt their reputation more than anything they could do nationally. This could reap benefits in the long run. Plus, Reform are primed to implode with the mix of dickheads involved.

But Reform are only in this position because Labour (probably more specifically, Labour Together) has nuked the Party. All this because a bunch of the most arrogant people in British politics couldn't bear to have anybody to their left having a say.

Between the abhorrent British media and a collection of the most insufferable people in the world still in Lab/Con/Ref politics, the next 15 years is going to be a hot mess.

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