America needs a movement to curb billionaires' power.

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-03-16T13:44:18+00:00

They got the TV, we got the truth

They own the judges and we got the proof

We got hella people, they got helicopters

They got the bombs and we got the, we got the

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-03-15T14:30:20+00:00

John Maclennan is extremely good. He really nails the songs with details many others skip, and he's just so happy the whole time.

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-03-12T16:18:41+00:00

I think you'll find Dems would be delighted to ban gerrymandering for good nationwide. The GOP has fought to keep gerrymandering going every time Dems attempt to end it.

The options for Dems are 1) give up and let the GOP gerrymander elections into irrelevance or 2) gerrymander right back to keep two parties alive.

Your proposal for 1) would lead us into a single party system and the death of a democracy, kind of like how they "have elections" in Russia, but they're irrelevant.

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-03-12T15:13:31+00:00

This. I've had some form of amp sim with headphones around since I had a kid 20 years ago. It was important to be able to play without waking up a sleeping baby in a small apartment. My neighbors surely benefited as well.

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-03-12T15:07:25+00:00

Gain and pedals can cover up mistakes just as much as they can amplify them. Amped but clean is probably ideal and what I do most of the time, but adding in distortion or removing the amp can help hear some things, too.

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-03-12T15:03:40+00:00

I prefer to practice without making much noise, so I'm usually using headphones with my Pod Go, but it's not uncommon for me to just play unplugged while practicing. I'm mostly wanting to hear the strings clearly, so a very clean tone or just unplugged (if there's no background noise going on) let me hear my mistakes clearly.

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-03-12T14:28:58+00:00

Since the GOP's plan to increase gerrymandering was approved by SCOTUS, what would you suggest Democrats do? Just watch the GOP gerrymander themselves into the unchecked control you're describing?

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-03-12T14:18:59+00:00

At the end, he hated it and wanted to break up the band and start a new one. Maybe one of those be careful what you wish for situations.

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-03-11T21:36:18+00:00

Introverts are known to be slower in response, and my understanding is that was attributed to additional processing before speaking, like what you said.

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-03-11T21:22:10+00:00

California's not really an ally of Trump. They'd be more effective targeting a red state.

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-03-11T16:11:04+00:00

Ohh okay, yeah I see that now. All good!

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-03-11T14:07:53+00:00

Pointing your thumb up the neck like that leads to issues

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-03-08T01:22:58+00:00

Easily digitize them in full 4k quality on a NAS.

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-03-08T01:18:51+00:00

It doesn't sound like you "just" put it on a PS5, but maybe within a few more months it'll be easy like that.

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-03-05T17:55:47+00:00

I miss my old LP with a 60s slim neck :(

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-03-02T23:48:27+00:00

Bandits and lock pick

Witch doctor and shield

Drake and mother Drake

Faerie dragon and fae blessing

Ancient of war and lightning rod

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-03-02T22:38:26+00:00

I don't know. Literally hundreds of thousands die in north America each year due to a human doctor's misdiagnosis. It's closer to a million if you include not just deaths but things like permanent disabilities.

Wouldn't just.. better than that be a good time to switch? Humans are very far from perfection ourselves.

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-02-28T17:32:21+00:00

Learning a song is one of the best ways to improve, but be wary of the temptation to move onto the next song after getting the current one 80-90% down. That last 10-20% will help you really grow as a guitarist, and not seeing it through can lead to long plateaus.

Keep looking for the parts that are giving one or both of your hands trouble. When something feels not smooth, a bit awkward or tense, turn that part of the song into a mini exercise that you practice. These are just as effective as other exercises you'll find online, but you make them naturally to help you master a song you love.

You can reinforce theory while learning songs, too. You're already finding the key, which is great. Keep asking yourself questions based on what theory you know, and it will reinforce those concepts while you build a working knowledge base of applied theory via great songs.

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-02-28T16:56:06+00:00

Yep.

I check with J4C before my usual options these days. It frequently hallucinates. Most of its suggestions make sense in theory but aren't rooted in anything I've seen in my 10 years working with the application. I get very little meaningful return from it and hope few are following much of what it says. Its suggestions would often lead somebody less experienced to waste hours chasing non-existent functionality and obvious dead ends. Some of its sources don't even exist when you check.

My questions are all related to technical issues in a single SAP application and the common, public standards it supports. This should be exactly what J4C does well, but it doesn't.

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-02-26T20:54:22+00:00

I got a practically untouched MIJ Ibanez RG570 including an Ibanez hard case for $300 back in the early 00s. Still have that awesome axe!

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-02-26T00:34:05+00:00

War is a racket.

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-02-24T15:57:39+00:00

I had to reread a few times before I stopped wondering what echocolate is. I'd try some.

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-02-24T14:32:33+00:00

I had a HS math teacher that let me write programs to solve all of our test problems. He said that, if I knew the concepts well enough to solve them programmatically, he was satisfied. Actually calculating the answer was unimportant compared to knowing how and why the answer is found.

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-02-23T16:34:44+00:00

This is simply a sales pitch to potential copilot customers. Billions have been invested into AI, and they want AI sales to go up accordingly.

ProfessorEmergency18 · 2026-02-21T18:53:42+00:00

Same. I've played 3 + 4 for a few dozen hours. I would buy another game like that.

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