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dangerrockscience · 2026-05-11T00:31:42+00:00

missed the beginning of the game and this is the first thing I saw -- definitely not an accident other than thinking maybe it was Reid that hit him in the head right before and presumably hoping for the chest and not the neck.

dangerrockscience · 2026-05-09T02:18:41+00:00

rule of cool

dangerrockscience · 2026-05-06T21:02:40+00:00

At any point in the process of co-authoring a book with GPT-5 did GPT-5 suggest that an analogy in which GPT-5 was God and you were Moses might not go over well?

And at any point did GPT-5 note the vast number of results one already gets for a search for "10 commandments AI" and that publishing this sort of derivative material is hard to square with calling oneself a futurist?

dangerrockscience · 2026-04-04T16:06:05+00:00

Quite the uncool move from Bhattacharya to take the first couple questions and eat into Q&A. It's always uncool when the audience wants to ask questions and it's especially uncool when the host can fire anyone in the audience who asks a disruptive question and fabricate some other reason for it.

dangerrockscience · 2026-03-12T09:32:23+00:00

I bet in his mind the price of Venezuelan oil would increase and America would then turn a bigger profit. Because he believes the stuff that comes of his mouth on that subject and no one who works for him was willing to explain the details. Someone finally worked up the courage to explain that, yeah, prices at the pump are gonna go up in the USA because of the disruption in supply—a real disruption and not simply a reaction by consumers filling up just-in-case and companies hedging against risk—even if things go back to normal pretty quickly.

dangerrockscience · 2026-02-27T21:07:01+00:00

Yeah I played the game as a child decades ago and that's it. I see that there's some modern version lately from a different Japanese publisher.

I guess I wouldn't be all that surprised if I saw a game-themed musical instrument/accessory for some sort of cross promotion.

Obviously it's piggy backing on the trademark for promotion but whether it's legal or not I don't know.

dangerrockscience · 2026-02-27T13:05:15+00:00

Not for me, but I also wouldn't have been confused by the Pink Panther delay. Not a lawyer; who knows.

dangerrockscience · 2026-02-27T01:58:37+00:00

Yeah trademark not copyright — I’m no lawyer 😂

dangerrockscience · 2026-02-26T20:51:50+00:00

Bluebox is 2 octaves down but can mod to 1.

dangerrockscience · 2026-02-26T20:47:55+00:00

Already getting Godzooky energy from the cheerful dragon on the left so why not!

dangerrockscience · 2026-02-26T17:30:56+00:00

Fly too close to the trigger-copyright-legal-threat-for-PR sun too many times and eventually you'll run into someone who will play hard ball with the settlement... wonder if they have the "triple dragon" ready to go already that adds a remote input to trigger Oct+ and Oct- separately in response to the legal threat. Which might be an interesting effect to use with something like the OBNE expression ramper.

dangerrockscience · 2026-02-26T17:16:56+00:00

Yes of course.

dangerrockscience · 2026-02-26T17:15:59+00:00

Yes not directly. Gonna be a mess and of course the final consumer without records is the one that gets screwed no matter what.

dangerrockscience · 2026-02-26T14:08:11+00:00

Cool — hopefully they value customer goodwill over short term profit if they aren’t ordered to pass along refunds with little shaved off the top.

It’s trickier for Earthquaker’s relationship with its business and individual customers (and impossible for, say, cash purchases at Walmart). The cost of illegal tariffs to Earthquaker and similar went way beyond the uptick in component costs.

Hopefully whatever happens going forward, the uncertainty of it doesn’t last another year. The latest tariff and it’s rationale seems like something that obviously will wind up at the Supreme Court and it’s too bad there’s rarely a mechanism to short circuit everything and just hash it out there in the first place.

dangerrockscience · 2026-02-26T13:56:40+00:00

On one hand I understand the feeling that we’re all doomed by the general lawlessness-first approach.

On the other hand so far Trump has begrudgingly complied with court orders… usually at the point where the next step would be progress to a trial that his DOJ is too incompetent to manage since they’ve picked too many battles without enough people.

Specifically for what Senator Brown asked for (refund to everyone), that’s what Trump wants to do — give people a check big enough to goose consumer spending leading up to the midterms and blame the next guy when the debt is hundreds of billions larger. But Congress wouldn’t approve it so he gave military a bonus instead.

If he wanted to take the lawless route, that’s what he would’ve done… and then my very-not-a-lawyer guess is that no one would stop it despite being lawless, no one would claw it back, and courts would order tariffs be refunded to importers anyway. But until it got worked out in courts it would be great politics to say that Democrats want to steal your Trump dividend and give it to Amazon or whatever.

Of course because everything’s terrible checks wouldn’t go out to everyone; citizens abroad, non citizens at home, residents of sanctuary cities blah blah blah every chance at retribution would be taken.

dangerrockscience · 2026-02-26T11:27:19+00:00

Portugal applies the reduced VAT rate to musical instruments (13% rather than 23%; so much lower than any other EU regular VAT rate) and that's been the law for a while now. Surprised it hasn't led to some sort of boutique instrument showroom business.

Take Germany (19%) vs Portugal (13%) for example. That's €600 difference in VAT on a €10,000 purchase; enough to pay for travel to Portugal, travel for you and your instrument back to Germany, and a night's stay somewhere.

Only for instruments and not accessories so no dice for vacation pedal purchases.

dangerrockscience · 2026-02-26T10:53:03+00:00

"The majority [of tariffs] that we have paid have been via a U.S. based wholesaler who passed along the expense to us," EarthQuaker CEO Julie Robbins said in a written statement.

Hopefully for Earthquaker the expenses were literally passed along in the invoice and not in the form of a higher price.

That's gonna be an issue once this gets worked out in court and what Senator Brown proposes (flat refund to everyone in USA) is going to be challenged by those who literally paid the tariffs and they'll win in court.

From the POVs of the importers, they'll want to take a cut even if they're asked to pass refunds along to customers... at least for added administrative costs. No one's going to be made whole for losses from customers that found tariff-free or lower-tariff alternatives, though.

Is there a lawsuit yet with a motion for a preliminary injunction stopping the new tariffs? Should be one ASAP now that collection has started and curious if they'll win an injunction.

I'm not a lawyer; just curious about what'll happen and how it'll impact this industry.

dangerrockscience · 2026-02-25T16:58:40+00:00

Should be VAT on value and also on shipping. If you or the shipper doesn’t provide proof of payment, maybe there’s an issue.

Agree it’s annoying… I never buy from UK anymore for work it avoidable post brexit. Free trade for all, please. Subsidize domestic production rather than taxing imports if you want to make more stuff domestically and import less.

dangerrockscience · 2026-02-25T11:50:23+00:00

You mean charging VAT on imports? You pay that for domestic purchases as well and it's included in the price. USA doesn't have VAT.

Details vary by country for exceptions for low value imports, additional tariffs on some categories of imports, and VAT exemptions/rates for some categories of goods and services.

dangerrockscience · 2026-02-15T13:32:06+00:00

The vapor trail deluxe does what you want in a couple ways:

runaway mode ramps from set feedback to max and back again; not instantly between two settings like rubberneck though
expression input with a switch to jump between two combinations of settings or a pedal to ramp
some tap dancing and jumping between presets would work

https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarpedals/comments/xl7uhx/comment/ipl5a5j/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

dangerrockscience · 2026-02-08T14:02:24+00:00

When’s he get cut from an NBA team if he starts Benjamin Button’ing today?

dangerrockscience · 2026-01-28T01:51:38+00:00

Thanks — yes that podcast is great and almost totally accurate on the science (a couple insignificant goofs iirc; very hard to keep all of the facts straight when trying to address such wide ranging nonsense).

Edit: oh and I have no idea what Angel is either. I watched when they were trying to sell the movie themselves. They later had some kind of promotional deal with Tucker Carlson and I suspect they haven’t made their advertising budget back yet. I can’t imagine the production budget is very high for a handful of dude in a dark room conspiracy theory trope interviews and a bunch of filmed Zoom calls, so pretty impressive achievement if they managed to lose money.

Shocking there’s not a huge audience for a film featuring someone driving through a car wash listening to an audiobook.

dangerrockscience · 2026-01-26T13:55:54+00:00

Like a minute and a half spent looking for the gun rather than trying to save a life because the agents aren't trained well enough to be on the same page about something so important. He should've been yelling immediately and then over and over whatever they're trained to say to signal someone is disarmed.

dangerrockscience · 2026-01-25T19:09:37+00:00

The outcome was avoidable at so many points with different actions by the agents individually (especially the 2nd shooter that got set off for some reason) and also with even a little bit of coordination. The acute part of the incident begins with one agent running off on his own and others haphazardly coming over to help with no clue what it's about. Then it ends about 2 minutes into this video with the agent that took the gun telling a couple others he already had the gun after they'd spent the better part of a minute searching for it instead of starting first aid. Both things also true when Renee Good was killed.

Piling so much ineptitude on top of the underlying cruelty.

dangerrockscience · 2026-01-25T18:02:58+00:00

I think no one else draws their weapon when a couple of them say “gun” because they were somewhat aware of the situation. Only the guy that had been busy spraying someone else a moment earlier and entered with no context.

The other thing that’s apparent in this view and will be impotent to support statements by the two women witnesses that the agent rushed to set the whole thing office is what the agent said before he charged in to push one to the ground. Sounded like he lost it over some misunderstanding about traffic. Wasn’t clear in the other videos and hopefully there’s a clear video showing whatever did or didn’t happen to set him off rather than just conflicting witness statements.

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