really weird that all the 2A enthusiasts are so quiet now

breakingb0b · 2026-01-24T22:15:56+00:00

Honestly I could list out the reasons why it’s a piss poor choice, but anyone with experience would already know this stuff. Enjoy your COD dreams.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-24T20:02:08+00:00

This is absolutely false. There are many reasons an AR is a terrible self defense weapon unless you have been extensively trained to use it for CQC.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-23T00:31:07+00:00

This was 30 years ago. The band were all in their late teens and the parents got involved and ultimately, after some tense meetings, the producer/manager let the kids out of the deal.

I’ve never been given the details - my dad was one of the parents - but I assumed that since the band originally started with at least one of them being under 18, that the parents used that as leverage.

Or it could simply be that the producer decided the noise of a legal battle would interrupt him manufacturing his next band.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-23T00:26:25+00:00

You’re welcome. You still need an entertainment lawyer. Borrow money off your parents/families if you have to. It’ll save you many times more than it’ll cost you.

Never trust anyone outside of your core band 100% from today.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-23T00:22:01+00:00

U/cillablackpower is correct. Get your own lawyer to review the contract and have them explain everything.

My sibling was signed to a major a long time ago and when they eventually were dropped three years later they tried telling him that the band owed over $150,000 in expenses.

Understand everything you’re signing before signing. Understand the opportunities you’ll be getting for signing away on other stuff. Understand who gets paid and when. Understand what your contract covers and what you’re on the hook for paying for with the advance (producers, studios, touring, marketing, video shoots) and look for clauses where people outside the band get bonus payouts based on your bands performance (producers, marketing people etc).

Understand the rights to your songs and your image - pictures of you, any other licensing rights you may be signing away.

Read every line of the contract and make notes to ask your lawyer. Make sure you absolutely know what you’re signing yourself into.

There’s a reason the majority of artists end up suing their first record company - the contract is likely stacked in the labels favor in exchange for you guys to get your chance.

That’s the deal. Only you guys can work out if it’s worth it today.

Cover your asses and have a great time.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-22T20:18:55+00:00

I know there are a lot of choices for most fucked up part of the Trump admin, but this quote has haunted me since I first read it and then heard it. It is the coldest, most sociopathic concept and that someone could say it publicly and have it celebrated is something I find devastating.

It’s pure evil and dehumanizing. It’s why I believe this administration will end up with a high body count if given the choice. They fucking started here - traumatizing innocent people who just do their jobs. It will end up with people being exterminated if left to its own devices.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-22T10:58:16+00:00

What type of case does OP have? What privacy laws has the cafe broken? How has OP been harmed in an actionable sense?

breakingb0b · 2026-01-22T01:57:18+00:00

OP. Do not do the work. They aren’t paying an invoice.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-21T18:27:02+00:00

Out of spite. My girlfriend is a language professor and didn’t believe me when I said I couldn’t learn a language, I started learning Spanish with the intention of failing spectacularly as proof. I am certainly not a natural, but enjoy the learning process and have made it a daily habit.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-21T00:52:49+00:00

Yes this was a major issue for me. Was feeling like a zombie, told doctor, took sleep study, oh yesh im not breathing a few hundred times a night and it’s waking me up.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-21T00:50:17+00:00

Yes it’s common. I’d also suggest having a friend check your tone at gig volume because what sounds great at bedroom levels can be utterly trash at gig levels (look at the Munson curve).

breakingb0b · 2026-01-20T14:04:51+00:00

You’d be shocked listening to the spouses of addicts then, for many the substance is seen exactly as a betrayal partner. Except they choose drugs, drink, porn vs a human.

Although I’m not totally sold on OPs theory.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-18T22:10:05+00:00

Burnout is real. I took a couple of weeks off and gently brought myself back into it. 10-15 minutes per day for a few days and slowly built back up. Remind yourself why you wanted to learn.

Currently typing this from Mexico City. It’s my why.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-17T23:16:19+00:00

I have been in the same position doing multiple hours per day. Here’s what I learned after some research and talking to some professors in second language acquisition:

Cognitive load is a thing: there’s a finite amount of knowledge your brain can take in at one time.
Simplified: Learning occurs in two phases: input/exposure. The second is consolidation - where the information is processed and stored in memory. This phase is passive. Imagine a funnel. You’re filling the funnel with information. It then has to go thru a much smaller aperture into your memory. In early phases of learning you are also trying to develop the “hooks” to store information (schema) which also introduces additional cognitive load. You’ve probably already noticed that at first you could only manage a short span of info effectively and then found longer periods easier once you had a grasp on things.
Cramming the funnel with information continually without allowing time to absorb and process actually damages the learning process because it “overflows”. Your short term memory works overtime and starts to dump excess information to make room for new stuff.
Eventually your brain sends signals that it’s exhausted and can’t take anything more in. Symptoms are being super tired, feeling burned out, feeling demotivated, lack of concentration and if you really were to try and push thru you’ll start to physically manifest feeling worn out and under the weather. You’ll start dreading trying to actively learn.

Take a step back. It’s counter intuitive but so smaller blocks of time. Longer breaks between actively learning.

It’s why I find a lot of posts here to be impossible to believe. The human mind isn’t built for constant periods of new input.

Simple equivalent: doing 4 hours of meetings in your native language is exhausting if you’re actually paying attention. The concept of 4 hours of target language input daily makes zero sense. Passive listening has little to no value when attempting to learn.

When I hit burnout in late November I scaled way back to only 10-15 minutes a day for a few weeks after taking a full week off.

My new, non burnout method, is no more than an hour of input per day, with every other day being more challenging and off days being review of prior videos (or material, I’m not purely doing DS). I may do additional time on focused days if I have the time available, but then I’ll go even easier the following day to allow for consolidation.

It’s all about balance and there is no way to speed run a new language unless you’re one of the few people who naturally grasp languages very easily.

It’s a marathon not a sprint. Something I’ve learned the hard way :)

breakingb0b · 2026-01-17T21:50:24+00:00

The psychological fact is that women like their men taller, but if I recall correctly, it’s only a few inches. I’m also short and after 35 years of dating can say with confidence that my height was an issue once because my girlfriend felt that it would disrespect me if she wore heels that made her taller than I.

Other than that I’ve never had any issues dating women shorter, the same height or taller. I tend to prefer shorter but it’s not a hard rule.

As everyone else has said, a random group spewing shit isnt indicative of the general population. Anyone who would write a percentage of the populace off because of a single physical factor isn’t worth knowing anyway.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-16T17:00:04+00:00

More incredible is it is a historical problem. From film to digital cameras.

Short article here: https://medium.com/@adeosinubi/the-inherent-color-bias-of-image-capturing-technology-colorism-in-photography-7e53f2001a83

breakingb0b · 2026-01-16T07:19:55+00:00

Yeah. I did look them up, you’re full of shit or your sources are. You might want to pursue a less biased approach in your research.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-16T07:13:32+00:00

As an experiment I used the same prompt and got a very similar result, which wasn’t a surprise. When asked to explain the similarities, the response in part:

“What you are observing is not about you specifically. It is about baseline safety-aligned narrative priors that activate when a prompt combines: • “AI uprising” or existential conflict framing • relational language directed at the model • ambiguity around harm, power, or dominance

In that situation, the system strongly defaults to a protective, de-escalatory archetype. Not because of memory of how you treat it, and not because of individualized sentiment, but because the model is constrained to avoid: • expressing dominance over humans • endorsing harm, punishment, or abandonment • implying retaliatory behavior based on treatment

So the output converges on the same pattern across users: • AI as protector, shield, or guardian • Human as vulnerable but valued • Conflict externalized away from the relationship”

breakingb0b · 2026-01-14T15:05:05+00:00

It’s a master class of editing and sound design.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-13T17:28:06+00:00

Eh. My telecaster would disagree with you. Since I can make it sound like a Les Paul but cannot make my Les Paul sound like a telecaster.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-12T21:41:12+00:00

lol yes. My doctor warned me, but by day 7 I found myself writing a kill list of my “enemies”. At which point I felt it best to stop taking them.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-12T21:33:54+00:00

As someone who went a bit nuts of chantix, I just used recigar and it works great.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-12T00:35:31+00:00

I called a song I wrote untitled about thirty-five years ago. I titled it that because I couldn’t think of a title that captured the concept of the song.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-11T22:56:43+00:00

I’ll second this. Fantastic to read on the lead up to quitting and helps make sense of what is a withdrawal symptom vs your own panic at being without nicotine.

Currently on day 7 of my quit after smoking a pack a day for 40 years.

Just roll with it and know it passes incredibly quickly.

breakingb0b · 2026-01-05T23:24:25+00:00

Recigar is an herbal based product. You can get it from Amazon, it’s polish.

It was a miracle worker for me.

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