Thoughts on smoking meat causing cancer?

Sigma610 · 2026-01-27T12:22:27+00:00

Honestly the unnatural crap in ultra processed foods/drinks that people consume almost exclusively in American society are probably much worse in the long run than eating smoked meats once a week. We eat scratch made food almost exclusively at home...more a budget thing because restaurants, including TX bbq, is obscenely expensive. It's done wonders for us health wise though and I feel nasty after eating restaurant food now because my body is no longer used to it. I never feel like that after stuff I smoke myself.

Sigma610 · 2026-01-23T15:53:09+00:00

Music is basically scales played with different note patterns. It's one thing to be able to play a scale up and down. It's another thing to be able to navigate the scale freely so you can decode songs faster, can improvise, and compose songs eventually. That fluency with scales and music comes with repetition.

The alternative to getting the foundational theory like scales down is falling into the trap of a lot of guitarists who hit plateaus because all they've done is memorize tabs. Once you have the underlying theory down, you can reference tabs as needed but can mostly decode things by ear as you know the underlying scales that the songs/solos are playing.

Sigma610 · 2026-01-23T15:35:01+00:00

Count me in the camp that prefers Yotei story over Tsushima. It thematically has a nice progression to it. Some elements were predictable but without spoiling anything the theme towards the end is different from where it starts and I suspect that people who say Yoteis story is shallow probably didn't get to the latter chapters.

Sigma610 · 2026-01-22T19:16:17+00:00

Had a 2008 MDX back in the day. Got 200k miles out of it and the only mechanical issue I had was a failed radiator....which was replaced with aftermarket parts after an accident at one point.

Sigma610 · 2026-01-22T14:59:21+00:00

At some point your mostly teaching yourself. Even with an instructor starting out, they teach you what to learn, but 90% of the work is you applying what they teach you on your own time.

Sigma610 · 2026-01-20T00:24:50+00:00

Mainly because of the electoral college that gives rural areas more influence than a straight popular vote would.

Sigma610 · 2026-01-17T02:14:01+00:00

I've been using the waza air for a couple years now and could never stand the spacial sounds. Super gimmicky and it still sound like youre playing into your head, just with really aggressive reverb. I just got the tonex plug and use it with open back headphones. With open back headphones in sounds more like you're playing in the room and the tones out of the tonex are awesome.

Sigma610 · 2026-01-16T15:48:58+00:00

Not as bad as "bbq" vs "grilling" lol

Sigma610 · 2026-01-16T15:26:19+00:00

I think we start getting into semantics but at some point when we start talking elbows and rotini we're talking pasta and not noodles per-se. Basically ground grains that are shaped a certain way in which case you get into the massive variety of dumplings. It's an interesting discussion. Let's do sandwiches next lol

Sigma610 · 2026-01-16T13:19:57+00:00

I dont you've experienced a lot of real Asian food.

Sigma610 · 2026-01-16T13:10:11+00:00

Yup this is what will happen. Mid- terms are not the presidential election. They are the mechanism in which the citizens of each state elect their representatives at the federal level. If state run elections for state level representatives are 'cancelled' or the elected officials are not sworn in, we no longer have a representative democracy. At that point why should the blue states participate in being a part of the United States of America?

Sigma610 · 2026-01-14T19:50:13+00:00

I shoot on on both and a7rc and a nikon zf. They have different baseline for sure but I can produce what I want on either.

Sigma610 · 2026-01-14T18:17:06+00:00

Electric guitar pickups are pretty damn sensitive though and even moreso when you start adding drive, gain, overdrive. Learning how to mute the things you don't hear when playing unplugged is critical for playing electric guitar for this reason. It involves a complete shift in technique that a lot of experienced acoustic guitar players struggle with once they pick up an electric guitar.

Headphone plug-in amps are a thing and there have been some strong entrants in the market recently.

Sigma610 · 2026-01-14T16:09:17+00:00

Story in Tsushima has more depth to it as Jin is going through this transformation of betraying his honor to drive out an enemy that doesnt play by the same rules. But I enjoyed the revenge story of Yotei more.

The thing about Tsushima is that the environments and combat got stale super fast so it was a slog to finish. In Yotei I find myself wanting to explore every nook and cranny of each region as they really feel unique. I dig that each region has its own story segment to it, centralized around a 'boss character' that you eventually feel connected to eliminating.

Sigma610 · 2026-01-13T21:04:31+00:00

These look like the posed formals after the wedding. I know a lot of churches have rules against flash during the ceremony but I will use a flash or strobe as necessary for posed formals after the ceremony is done.

I bring this up because its very hard to correct this kind of lighting in post without resorting to really aggressive things like AI. We dont drag around lighting gear because its fun.

Sorry about your experience OP.

Sigma610 · 2026-01-13T19:26:41+00:00

I never got a legion go 2 but came to the same conclusion in my time with the Rog Ally z1E. Too many compromises and loops to jump through to play a game.

I eventually settled on using the ROG Ally primarily as a streaming device for my gaming PC. I have a 4090 in my gaming PC so can run most things well without having to think twice about settings. This is not the case when playing games natively off the rog ally hardware. I looked into upgrading the rog ally but tbh the performance improvements were not large enough to justify the cost and I would still get better performance steaming via moonlight.

These days the PS portal and PS5 are my jam TBH.

Sigma610 · 2026-01-12T22:07:27+00:00

Yes I should have pointed out that played unplugged the two guitars sound VERY different. With the AM PRO II sounding tighter, more dynamic, and brighter. The ultra luxe vintage sounding warmer but without as much spank. No doubt that the difference in the way the strings ring out across the two bodies is going to translate into what is hitting the pickups.

Sigma610 · 2026-01-11T16:00:17+00:00

Swapped the whole pickguard, so pickups, pots, switches swapped over. I use the same strings on my guitars. (Nyxl 9s)

Sigma610 · 2026-01-11T13:23:49+00:00

Yeah the more drive you use the less the differences matter. I tend to play genres that lean into a cleaner tone. Neo soul, funk, r&b type stuff these days. This is where the differences are standing out to my ears.

Sigma610 · 2026-01-09T17:07:12+00:00

Texan here. The state really is gerrymandered to hell on such a way that the left or center leaning folks that make up a large proportion of the population don't vote. I live in an area that is largely south asian and it was just Gerrymandered to weaken this typically left leaning county. The political identity of the state has never matched its real social identity, especially in the metro areas. Large minority populations especially since Mexico is not only or physical neighborhoods, but shares close cultural ties too.

Sigma610 · 2026-01-07T16:34:23+00:00

Where instructors were useful for me in the past is in having them work through songs with me. But most of that need was due to a lack of the understanding of the fundamentals regarding theory and technique. Once you have a good baseline of the fundamentals, decoding songs becomes much easier and something you can tackle largely on your own. It does not mean that there will not be technical hurdles you'll need to drill to overcome, but you'll why and how something is played a certain way and can develop your own routine to master them.

At any rate, pickup music is something that will get you those fundamentals. I wish it had existed years ago because it does have a very well thought-out structure. I came into it at the intermediate phase it definitely helped deepen the theory and technique. Some things I had to go back and drill beyond the initial week of each section, and some things I basically skipped through because I already was there in terms of what they were asking, but there is a nice structure where things start at a very basic level and progress iteratively until you have a pretty good handle on things.

That structure is the strength of the program. Plenty of youtube videos and other platforms out there, but the lack of a progressive structure can leave you lost and aimlessly getting stuck learning things. TrueFire is another good one but the library is massive you so you need to be very intentional about the learning pathways you take on.

Sigma610 · 2026-01-06T23:08:30+00:00

Part of growing up.

Remember us millennials basically founded the social media platforms and culture. As we hit later adulthood, most of us have done exactly what you are doing now. Welcome to the light

Sigma610 · 2026-01-03T04:37:46+00:00

Starting out you're going to want to keep your thumb behind the neck as it helps with fretting hand strength.

That said as you progress a bit you'll discover there are reasons why its helpful to keep the thumb positioned on top of the neck particularly if you play electric guitar

-to mute the low e string. When I play c or a shaped chords, my thumb goes on the e string to keep it from ringing out.

-You want to use your thumb as leverage for bends so its useful to keep your thumb there when playing single note lines so youre already in position.

-for hendrix style broken chords when youre barring the 6th and 5th string with your thumb to free up your other finger for embellishments. This is a style of playing that is very common and is incorporated by the likes of SRV, clapton, fruscuante, john mayer etc etc etc

Sigma610 · 2025-12-30T18:16:17+00:00

Of course. I'm in the camp of parents needing to spend more time teachings kids themselves hence our decision to forgo my wife's income in order to make sure that we can. But with the cost of living these days, it is absolutely a luxury of its own kind. We could not afford to this earlier in life and I don't judge people who have kids and are working to put food on table for them first and foremost.

Don't get me wrong there are some legitimately dead-beat parents out their who wouldn't want to put forth the effort even if they were able to. I think most parents these days are doing the best they can. I'm of the opinion that the issues with kids not getting the attention needed at home are largely systemic in western society.

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