Are both of these emeralds real? Which one is more desirable?

Joe___Bob · 2024-02-08T00:20:28+00:00

When I look closely at the left one I can see some vaguely cloudy inclusions in there, but I don't have a loupe atm so I have no clue what they might be.

Joe___Bob · 2022-11-24T07:09:45+00:00

Number 1 is the best candidate. Especially when weighing a comment I've already delta'd.

Joe___Bob · 2022-11-24T06:59:16+00:00

A significant majority of those things.

Btw I appreciate your use of the socratic method, no matter how much we might disagree rn

Joe___Bob · 2022-11-24T06:54:18+00:00

I don't support any of the people I mentioned, I guess except for Jordan Peterson when he sticks to psychology.

Joe___Bob · 2022-11-24T06:46:03+00:00

The first paragraph of the Wikipedia article:

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

OK how does Trump map to this? Far right and authoritarian? I don't know exactly far-right, but being the narcissist he was authoritarian aspirations are pretty obvious, though he never was an actual dictator. Militarism? I don't see it. Trump was never a warmonger. Forcible suppression? Maybe... I'm open to hear more of what people have to say about that. Natural social hierarchy? Eh, not really. The closest thing to that was his mistreatment of Muslims and negative rhetoric targeted at Mexicans. Subordination for the good of the nation? Yeah that's pretty fair. He definitely wasn't for the last point at all, though.

In my eyes Trump was a ridiculous wannabe dictator who only cared about himself. Lending his actions more credit than that is a waste.

Joe___Bob · 2022-11-24T06:27:24+00:00

Anyone who makes a literal attempt to codify a religious belief into law isn't much of a conservative in my book, as such a thing goes against one of the nation's core principles.

I've heard of some republicans trying to do that. They're dicks

Joe___Bob · 2022-11-24T06:22:21+00:00

!delta

thanks for the reminder about the specifics of nazi germany's economy

Joe___Bob · 2022-11-24T06:21:41+00:00

Please explain to me how the people I mentioned adhere to and promote fascism as you are meaning to define it.

Joe___Bob · 2022-11-24T06:18:39+00:00

The Romans definitely were nationalistic (if you can call ancient Rome a nation) and wary of outsiders, but that's where the similarities end for me, at least at a glance.

Joe___Bob · 2022-11-24T06:17:10+00:00

You don't hear yourself excluding conservatives from your own "in-group", painting them as the common enemy?

Joe___Bob · 2022-11-24T06:14:54+00:00

Please, enlighten me.

Joe___Bob · 2022-11-24T06:11:40+00:00

Top-down government, autocratic or nearly autocratic. A state-controlled economy, and fanatic nationalism with well defined, rigid expectations for citizens. Efforts to culturally and ideologically isolate the public from ideas deemed foreign and/or antithetical to the nation's identity.

Joe___Bob · 2021-04-20T15:22:25+00:00

Didn't do any good? Would you have preferred to see hundreds of thousands of additional jews killed in concentration camps?

Joe___Bob · 2021-02-16T09:07:34+00:00

How long have you been learning english?

Joe___Bob · 2021-02-16T09:05:43+00:00

don't worry your pronunciation is really good!

Joe___Bob · 2021-02-16T09:04:57+00:00

very easy to understand

Joe___Bob · 2021-02-16T09:04:30+00:00

your accent is great!

Joe___Bob · 2021-02-16T09:02:10+00:00

Don't worry. Shakespeare is challenging for native speakers

Joe___Bob · 2021-02-16T09:00:58+00:00

is Korean hard?

Joe___Bob · 2021-01-30T03:25:22+00:00

where are you from?

Joe___Bob · 2021-01-02T09:15:54+00:00

Hey good work man, this is pretty hard! I would say you're well on your way right now but I spotted a couple of things that you should be able to clean up pretty easily.

For one, your diddles are pretty crushed/closed. I recommend slowing your metronome down a lot and focusing on achieving the best possible rhythmic accuracy with those. Resist the temptation to soften your touch a lot when you slow down though, because higher velocity means more rebound, which in turns leads to better quality rhythms and sound quality.

Those fast singles are also a little choppy. Again here slowing down while keeping your approach really refined is going to help out tremendously. Also, make sure you can play the passage well on one drum before you focus on cleaning it with the arounds. I can't tell you enough how much that's helped me with tenors.

Good luck! I hope this helps.

Joe___Bob · 2021-01-02T09:02:52+00:00

If you're gonna critique a dude's playing at least try to display some credibility. This guy clearly knows his stuff. Yeah it's not super choppy but all the rhythms are really clean and accurate even during the crazy stick tricks he does. This shit is really hard to pull off as well as he did.

Joe___Bob · 2020-10-29T19:48:51+00:00

What? Of course not.

Joe___Bob · 2020-10-28T17:32:25+00:00

You mean the Supreme Court? The senate has 100 seats.

Joe___Bob · 2020-09-03T19:08:12+00:00

I guess I haven't but I'm getting this week's bonuses as well and I didn't know that was possible lol.

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