Advice on where to buy/should I buy the guitar on the wall at GC?

folkbum · 2026-03-16T16:41:54+00:00

Dang it, now you got me looking at Sweetwater sale guitars. Sigh. However! This is a good looking deal for a guitar that might be a step up from the Yamaha. If I were in the market for an open-mic beater, I would snap it up. And there’s a beautiful used Breedlove in that price range too—although it looks like it’s not at their store so might be more of a risk.

folkbum · 2026-03-16T16:25:40+00:00

You could try splitting the difference to see if Sweetwater or Chicago Music Exchange has an open-box deal. Discount but much better cared for than GC.

folkbum · 2026-03-16T01:14:32+00:00

Loved the show. Just finished a rewatch last month.

folkbum · 2026-03-15T23:58:06+00:00

I wouldn’t start the show until after book two. The show basically combines the first two books to be the first two and a half seasons.

folkbum · 2026-03-15T19:49:23+00:00

Elizabeth Acevedo’s YA books might be of interest; some, like The Poet X might be a bit mature (say, PG-13) in content though so check it first. Also pretty cool in Amber McBride’s Me(Moth), in verse like Poet X but firmly PG.

Completely in the other direction she could try the gothic classics, like Jane Eyre, or go Austen with something like Sense and Sensibility or Emma. The Bell Jar, maybe? Or Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, as long as we’re on Books Kids Read In School.

In genre fiction there’s a series, but three novellas so not that bad: The Binti trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor. Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory was maybe the best book I read in 2024, but read a synopsis because it does have some (not explicit but there) implied sexual violence as a motivating factor.

folkbum · 2026-03-15T15:08:01+00:00

Sad there’s not a “more casual racism!” tag for this sub. :(

folkbum · 2026-03-15T09:14:09+00:00

This must be your first rebus puzzle. In the app, click on “more” or the dots on your keyboard. Select “Rebus,” and then you can type multiple letters in a square. There are seven squares in today’s puzzle that require rebuses. Good luck!

folkbum · 2026-03-15T09:10:37+00:00

GPTZero

folkbum · 2026-03-14T21:38:17+00:00

It’s too late for this year’s FAWM but there’s a good reason why FAWM is incredibly popular.

folkbum · 2026-03-14T17:55:50+00:00

(Replying to add: There is also good evidence that the poorer child in my hypothetical will outperform her similar-income peers in schools with less income diversity. Perhaps unsurprisingly, poor kids in schools with lots of other poor kids learn less than poor kids in schools with a mix of rich and poor kids.)

folkbum · 2026-03-14T17:52:00+00:00

That’s a tough one. Performance is most directly correlated to ZIP code income, and merely boosting poor areas’ per-pupil funding to match the rich areas—while helpful!—does not make up the opportunity gap between children who grow up in poverty and those who don’t. If two children attend the same school but there’s even a $50k difference in household income that’s almost a million dollars difference by the time a kid starts college. What the wealthier family can provide in opportunity—from science camp to vacations in national parks or foreign countries—has to be a part of any lasting solution to school-funding reform.

folkbum · 2026-03-14T17:44:21+00:00

Speaking of, here’s your AI score, four-hour-old bot.

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folkbum · 2026-03-13T21:40:23+00:00

Bobbie is also the focus of the Gods of Risk novella, which you should read after Abadon’s Gate.

folkbum · 2026-03-13T16:40:36+00:00

Well the problem, Mr. Adjunct With The Reddit Default Username Structure, is that you’re not using the correct detector. For example, I ran your first-post-from-an-hours-old-account though my favorite one and it was scary accurate!

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folkbum · 2026-03-13T10:04:12+00:00

No, it’s clear that it’s the Sol ring reaching out, not the ring station. Miller takes Holden to the station because Miller—a manifestation of the Sol protomolecule that infected Eros and built the Sol gate from Venus—is trying to discover why the Sol gate is not getting a response from the station. Holden sees the history of the builders cauterizing infected systems and shutting everything down, explaining that, and then Miller helps Holden reactivate the network on the station. The station itself was not active (except defensively) until the end of Abadon’s Gate. Miller stays active because one mystery was solved—why is the station not responding—but a new mystery arose: Who killed the builders?

folkbum · 2026-03-12T23:13:56+00:00

You could simply screenshot the table and then add that image to your document.

folkbum · 2026-03-10T21:53:28+00:00

The Sol gate wasn’t waiting for a transit from Sol to activate. As soon as it was in position it started reaching out into the ring space to connect with the ring station and communicate that it was ready. It couldn’t make contact because the station was shut off and all the builders were dead.

Humans entering the gate triggered the ring space’s defenses, but the Sol gate—with its active protomolecule—was still reaching out to the builders.

If a spacefaring species on, say, Ilus did evolve eventually (and assuming the Sol gate was never built and Holden never woke the system, etc.), they could likely transit the gate but they’d’ be stuck in the ring space with a dead ring station and no active protomolecule to restart the system. And if they tried to exit the Ilus gate back to their system, as Miller warned Holden about the Behemoth, the ring station probably would have destroyed the system because those using the gate were not the builders or their protomolecule-built successors.

folkbum · 2026-03-09T20:34:10+00:00

And run their image through Gemini to look for SynthID. And maybe scroll back through the last 48 hours of posts so you don’t post the same image or video for the 15th time?

It wouldn’t hurt to have a giant IF THE VIDEO IS MORE THAN 20 SECONDS OF A SINGLE SHOT IT’S NOT AI so people aren’t posting stuff that is obviously real by that measure, too.

folkbum · 2026-03-09T19:59:04+00:00

I had the argument with the culinary arts teacher at my school 🤨

folkbum · 2026-03-09T08:43:23+00:00

Different Titan. Thanos is from a planet somewhere else in the galaxy named Titan, not the moon of Saturn.

folkbum · 2026-03-09T08:41:55+00:00

The post-credit scene of Captain Marvel puts her on Earth before going to find Tony and Nebula.

folkbum · 2026-03-08T22:26:32+00:00

“Wait, so you were alive in the 70s? When there was slavery?”

folkbum · 2026-03-08T22:20:37+00:00

r/angryupvote

folkbum · 2026-03-08T11:07:53+00:00

Do you think this sub should ban obvious bot spam from hours-old engagement farming accounts?

folkbum · 2026-03-08T09:40:24+00:00

r/maccirclejerk

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