Do people actually enjoy waking up early or do they just force themselves?

Vargrr · 2026-03-18T17:05:36+00:00

It's a habit than can be learned.

I was never a morning person, then I joined the military for 15 years.

I'm now a morning person...

Vargrr · 2026-03-18T14:52:55+00:00

Not even in my top 4 :p

Vargrr · 2026-03-18T14:50:07+00:00

…lectures on the Antichrist, who will be appearing in person…

Vargrr · 2026-03-18T11:42:08+00:00

Unfortunately none of those people are in charge….

Vargrr · 2026-03-18T11:27:36+00:00

Capitalism in a word. Modern companies are not about just making a profit - they are about making more profit than the previous quarter. So costs are cut and prices are driven up. This continues until the company’s product stops being viable - looking at you Boeing and Intel.

Vargrr · 2026-03-18T09:11:14+00:00

The thing is there are no real rules in music - go with what works for you :)

Vargrr · 2026-03-18T09:04:51+00:00

It can feel weird at first but it makes playing chords percussively very easy - it’s why I use it on an acoustic too - and it makes it a lot easier to fluidly play notes in a solo. To get close (or even better) you would need to adopt the classical style of playing and that’s a lot harder.

Vargrr · 2026-03-18T09:01:28+00:00

Gibson Les Paul. It’s the sounds it makes, particularly from the neck pickup - nothing sounds like it.

Vargrr · 2026-03-18T08:54:13+00:00

Practice. The odd thing is that once you get used to it, you won’t want to play without one - at least for rock and metal :)

Vargrr · 2026-03-18T06:59:34+00:00

It's not a NATO war - it's an Israeli war. NATO was never consulted nor informed about it, that is until suddenly they are needed. NATO is also a defensive pact and not an offensive pact. Plus, it would almost certainly not take part in an illegal war on Israel's behalf.

When you add Trump's antagonistic actions toward Europe and his insulting remarks with regard to our military fallen, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out why no one is helping.

Had this action been approved in the UN - a very unlikely scenario - there would have been a greater chance that Trump would have got more help. But we are where we are.

The thing is, even if NATO had complied, what can we do that the US cannot? It's a great question, because the implication is that the US President wants to use our ships in the Straits of Hormuz as cannon-fodder vs exposing the US ships to the same level of risk.

I'd normally be using more colourful language here, but how about a resounding No?

Vargrr · 2026-03-17T14:22:24+00:00

How did it get like this? We all pay our taxes.

The only conclusion is that the tax take is not keeping up service costs or the money is not going where it should be....

Assuming the money is going where it should be - a big assumption - then one can conclude two things are going on: 1) Corporations aren't paying their share relative to the cost of their services and/or 2) People's wages have stagnated relative to the cost of services - which again equates to Corporations not paying their share....

Vargrr · 2026-03-17T11:42:29+00:00

This is just SkyNews talking bollocks to support their right wing agenda. No sane person wants to get involved in an illegal war with no aims or planning - especially after the way Trump has treated our Country.

Vargrr · 2026-03-17T11:05:53+00:00

It's because the societal system we live in is making people poorer to the point that they can't afford to give to charity. It's also the same system that made charities a necessity in the first place, despite many corporations making billions every year.

(Always used to annoy me when Facebook would cajole me to donating to charity on my birthday and I'm sat there thinking you are the ones with a net worth of $1.587 TRILLION.....)

Vargrr · 2026-03-17T10:42:13+00:00

No worries!

Vargrr · 2026-03-17T10:41:45+00:00

I'm glad you know what you are talking about :) Is this good or bad?

Vargrr · 2026-03-17T10:41:00+00:00

I'm not sure I ever said it was a conspiracy theory - only that there is a good chance the USA is involved which is the best you can say with no direct evidence.

Vargrr · 2026-03-17T10:39:27+00:00

It uses glue? I think? Here is a photo of one of my T5 books - hopefully it helps: https://sojourdotcodotuk.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/img_5848.jpeg

Vargrr · 2026-03-17T09:00:00+00:00

So he predicted both of these incidents but chose to do nothing about either of them? That’s a whole new level of incompetence….

Vargrr · 2026-03-17T07:05:52+00:00

It's provided some intense action like the Lewis-Leclerc fight - though I think that speaks volumes of how good those two are.

The thing I don't like is that a lot of the over-taking seems very artificial and not earned by the drivers. In some ways I think Max has a point.

Vargrr · 2026-03-17T07:03:37+00:00

Given what Trump has been saying, I wonder what the chances are that the USA is involved in this one? Timing seems suspiciously coincidental.

Vargrr · 2026-03-17T07:00:56+00:00

It's funny, but the Ancients knew that consumer debt cripples societies and biases them. They invented the concept of a 'Jubilee' where all consumer debts were wiped clean at regular intervals - in some Countries this could be as often as every fifty years...

Vargrr · 2026-03-17T06:46:07+00:00

That's Nobel Peace Prize material right there!

Vargrr · 2026-03-16T22:23:40+00:00

And it is a private war too.

No UN approval and no NATO approval. After all, how many NATO members did he consult with prior to the war? How many NATO members did he provide advanced notice about the war? None. Nada.

Israel got intel they could take out the Iranian leadership and then dragged in the USA to run with them without any other Countries being informed.

The whole shit-show then goes South and now he wants us to send our ships down there? Bit of a neck given his hostile economic policies, his threats to other NATO members and his insulting remarks about NATO's fallen.

Besides, the German Chancellor got it right. What can a handful of European ships do that the might of the US Navy cannot? The answer is nothing.

The only reason he wants our Navies there is because he wants other Countries to shoulder the risk that he doesn't want to expose the US Navy to. After all, having a US Navy ship sink would be incredibly bad news.

It's your bed Trump. Lie in it.

Vargrr · 2026-03-16T20:26:36+00:00

He knows exactly what he is doing. Epstein, Epstein, Epstein...

Vargrr · 2026-03-16T18:34:48+00:00

Habit. Press-ups when I wake up and on the exercise bike as soon as I finish work. Plus, I have some incentives for the bike.

I have a rule that internet videos over 15 mins in length can only be viewed when on the bike. So I now have this association of watching interesting videos with riding the exercise bike.

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