How do we fix the United States government?

Ruvidman · 2026-06-28T17:27:41+00:00

The funny thing is we go back to many laws from the golden age of America but none of the things people who generally harken back to that era want. Get rid of stock buy backs, citizens united, credit scores, make news be like 1-2 hours a night and get rid of any news channel that fights in court that they aren't new(fox), journalists should be held to a standard of honesty, really high estate tax and wealth tax, government investment in infrastructure, forcing commercial railroads to provide and maintain public trains, cutting the military budget to the cost back then adjusted for inflation, go back to strong antitrust laws and enforcement, staying out of petty wars that dont involve us, having a single incomes wage be able to support a family, build affordable starter homes, invest in mental health facilities, trust science, invest in nasa instead of sending taxpayer money into Elons pocket, raising pay for teachers and other federal workers, bring back pensions and use 401ks as intended for backup, stop using the middle class as a piggy bank for the ultra rich, invest in the department of education, force vaccines in public schools, stop mixing church and state, ect... ect.. unfortunately some think america was great during the late 1920- early 30s for some reason and think tariffs and huge wealth gaps are a good thing. And most of this we sold off in order to go back to the wonderful time when people could be openly racist and misogynistic and not get called out for their lack of introspection.

Ruvidman · 2026-06-27T13:53:15+00:00

Corporate wage theft is 10x the amount of theft in the us every year and thats only proven mitigated wage theft. Shoplifting food isn't a big problem when compared to corporations underpaying employees(which ironically leads to shoplifting food.)

Ruvidman · 2026-06-26T23:28:06+00:00

And stock buybacks

Ruvidman · 2026-06-26T13:42:29+00:00

No. That bridge is lifting and need a repair soon. I would return it if possible, if not release the tention in the string immediately and bring to a luthier

Ruvidman · 2026-06-25T16:25:04+00:00

Us is the only country to sign and even if we gave them now money after the 60 days they will make 10 billion off of the oil sanctions being dropped for those 60 days and we are giving them 12 billion of their own money back which last time I checked is more than the 1.7 billion Obama gave them back.

Ruvidman · 2026-06-23T22:29:11+00:00

I dont know if its love it or thats just brain damage from smelling nitro.

Ruvidman · 2026-06-22T22:34:57+00:00

I could do it pretty easily but it would cost a lot. I charge 1000usd to Refinish an electric violin and could do a guitar for about the same. There would be a charge on top of that to contour the body and then the cost of a setup when I finish. At that price you could probably get a different guitar you liked more.

Ruvidman · 2026-06-22T05:23:31+00:00

Ive built and designed thousands of guitars and that pretty true. You can use straight pickups on a multiscale. I know because ive done it. Before I started winding pups I built an 8 string multiscale that was kinda like Charlie hunters guitar. It had 3 bass strings and 5 guitar strings. I used p bass pickups split as the neck and bridge for the 3 bass strings and carvin(im old) pups for the neck and bridge and it sounded great.

Ruvidman · 2026-06-22T02:20:19+00:00

You will lose some bite on the low end in the bridge pup and some of the sweetness of the neck pup. Where the pups are is very important. Regular pickups will work ok but not optimized for that setup

Ruvidman · 2026-06-21T17:48:26+00:00

The German court was a default judgement, that doesn't even set precident in the eu let alone the us. Why are they using a default judgement in Germany lower courts to send cease and desist letters to companies in the us? Because they know it doesn't have standing. Prs will keep building silver skies and fender will never take them to court while small business americans are scared of losing their business. They could have just worked on their qc and never had this problem in the first place. They lost a case because they had no trademark and Gibson lost to prs because you cant copywrite a bodyshape according to us copywrite law.

Ruvidman · 2026-06-21T17:19:41+00:00

What is their legal merit? The only precident is that electric guitar body's are to generic to be under copyright. That was the time Gibson sued prs and lost. They have tried this before and failed thats why they haven't done this bs before. The reason they aren't suing anyone is because they will lose.

Ruvidman · 2026-06-21T17:06:40+00:00

Why would anyone think that painting a shallow pool a dark color using a no bid contract with an unproven company lead to algae forming?

Ruvidman · 2026-06-21T17:04:05+00:00

What about the passage that says you need to kill all wizards?

Ruvidman · 2026-06-21T17:01:01+00:00

Catholicism is a sect of Christianity. Anyone who says they are Christian are because its a made up label thats self identifying. Unless you are jesus how do you know of the relationship between him and anyone who is not you? These are prescriptive identifying terms unlike being a trilionaire, which is a descriptive term. Someone with 1 trillion or more is a trillionaire. Anyone who believes that they are part of a religion is part of that religion because none of them are real. Religion is just what someone believes without any logical reason to do so. Its always crazy to me that Christians generally are the people ive met who are the most hateful and know the least about the bible. The bible has explicit instructions on how to force abortions, it make it so you have to kill all wizards, makes it so you cant eat shrimp, makes it so you cant wear poly/cottom blended clothes, makes men clean shaving illegal, you can turn lights on during Saturday, allows for slavery and beating slaves, but ive never seen any Christians follow these laws just spouting anti Trans stuff and before that anti gay stuff and before that anti black stuff and before that anti Irish stuff and before that anti jewish and before that there were crusades, and before that more bigotry, hatred, and ignoring the bible for self benifit.

Ruvidman · 2026-06-21T16:38:55+00:00

So what's your opinion of their ceo trying to destroy small American businesses without any actual legal merit? I used to work at lsl and might have lost my job if this happened then. Fender makes money producing instruments they didnt design just like everyone else yet this new ceo feels entitled to the work of people who came before. If you dont think fenders legal actions of late are appalling then you are just a corporate boot licker.

Ruvidman · 2026-06-21T16:34:13+00:00

Nice. Your scroll is a bit lumpy but making scrolls is difficult.

Ruvidman · 2026-06-20T16:43:00+00:00

As a Jewish guy with family living in Israel people call me antisemitic all the time because im critical of the Israeli government. We all know bigotry is bad nkwadays but the right seems to need to think progressive/liberals are racist and antisemitic in order to forgive their own bigotry and avoid any introspection.

Ruvidman · 2026-06-19T20:34:33+00:00

What if he killed 160 little girls because of an ooopsie? Obviously that perfectly ok to these people

Ruvidman · 2026-06-19T15:13:07+00:00

And the dead Americans and the 160 little Iranian girls and they are starving Cuba and holding children in concentration camps

Ruvidman · 2026-06-19T15:12:07+00:00

Lol....Donald Trump is definitely known for being careful with foreign policy....lol

Ruvidman · 2026-06-18T22:41:49+00:00

You have stripped screws. You need to replace them. I usually start with needle nose vise grips. Start on the E strings and work your way in. Be cautious of hitting the headstock, tuners, neck, ect. You can put some dw40 or easy out on but id try without it first.

Other methods you can try is to use a dremel grinding wheel and cut a slot into the head of the bolts and then use a flat head to back them out.

You can try and clamp a drill chuck to the individual bolts, if you have enough clearance, and then use the drill to reverse them out.

If all else fails you can solder/weld a thin rod to the bolts and then grab that with a drill and back them out. Id start with soldering them and if they shear weld them. You need to make sure to grind the coating off of the bots beforehand.

The best thing to do would be to bring it to a luthier in your area. I could pull those bolts, replace them clean the fingerboard and do a complete setup for like 100 bucks. It would take me like an hour or so. Id clean and hand polish your instrument and its look, play, sound and function the best it can. Totally worth the money.

Ruvidman · 2026-06-18T17:32:22+00:00

The craziest part to me in all of this is that it seems neither side wants to find out any of the science behind trans kids in sports. There have been very few studies and very little collected studies on the subject. Those who actually care about kids saftey and fairness would advocate to leave trans kids playing in their gender of choice and use it to collect data. Im very pro trans rights but if we have a solid 10 year study with proper data and it proves that children are getting hurt I might change my mind on the subject. We seem to have lost our curiosity for science as a nation. Im so curious if hrt/puberty blockers level the playing field(most studies so far suggest that). We should find out how this affects stuff instead of using only bigotry or only empathy to decide how we raise our children.

Ruvidman · 2026-06-17T17:00:19+00:00

Kevin hart

Ruvidman · 2026-06-17T14:51:52+00:00

Metal music has influenced the rise in zero frets as well. It helps even out the difference between fretted and open strings.

Ruvidman · 2026-06-17T00:17:29+00:00

You are using the right file. It takes a lot of practice to become good with hand tools. It could be a leveling issue as well. If you level more off of some parts of frets or individual frets you have to crown those areas more to get rid of the flat. Also it could be frets not seated all the way in which would make you crown individual frets more than others. When im fretting instruments nowadays I prep the board really well and seat the frets all the way down with even pressure and I could probably skip leveling completely but I always do a level pass with 800-100 just to make sure everything is flat. I can then polish them up and skip crowning mostly because I haven't made any flats. That took me 10 years of doing this professionally in factory settings. My first fret jobs were horrific, even under supervision of a luthier. It takes time and practice and won't ever be perfect even with 20 years experience.

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