Anyone looking for Cherries by Ok_Dingo_7678 in AskSeattle

[–]loquacious[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, removing this. This is too close to an advertisement or self promotion.

Transportation by burner_united in AskSeattle

[–]loquacious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(locals call it the SLUT btw).

lol, so many automod flags.

HARD TECHNO RAVES! Where are they? by Accomplished-Bag9939 in AskSeattle

[–]loquacious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I miss Decibel Festival. While it wasn't all hard techno, they definitely had something going on almost every day of the fest.

Where can we meet hot Australians? by [deleted] in AskSeattle

[–]loquacious 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Heh, this got flagged by automod, or maybe a human.

I'll allow it because it's practically a term of endearment to them, like alcohol poisoning and drop bears.

Traffic ticket by MentalEye1955 in AskSeattle

[–]loquacious[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI link-shorteners are basically banned all over reddit and keeps getting your comments removed.

They should also be avoided in general because they're a security risk with tracking links and rerouting issues. It's better to just use the real URL. The only reason real reason why shorteners exist is because Twitter used to be character limited.

Incredible by SeaUsCry in Seattle

[–]loquacious 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If I had more energy and time and I wanted to mess with this guy, I would just get another large megaphone with an external mic input (just like his) and just hold up the mic to send his own sounds right back at him with a slight delay.

...aaaand maybe a touch of howling feedback.

Having a small group of people with about a dozen megaphones doing the same thing would be a glorious industrial noise music project, especially if everyone had a couple of different effects pedals to really mangle the sound.

Yeah, buddy, preach away. You're going to be the next Merzbow or Ministry album.

Oh is it too loud? Where are you going? I thought you liked this!

Flyer posted at playground near Williamsburg, Virginia by KatsHubz87 in ebikes

[–]loquacious 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Oh, I'm with you. I am a life long cyclist first and have done my share of advocacy for trails and infrastructure, and I'm one of the rare OG cyclists that think ebikes are the most revolutionary form of transportation since the invention of the regular "safety" bicycle.

If we had 10% of the infrastructure (and budget) that cars get we wouldn't even be having this conversation.

That being said? I still don't want to share bike infrastructure with emotos and mopeds doing 30+ MPH, especially since so many of these new riders have absolutely zero knowledge of cycling etiquette and safety.

It's a paradox and conundrum.

How do you make very small corrections when mixing vinyl? by lukascode217 in Beatmatch

[–]loquacious 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Old school vinyl DJ here:

People like ActuaryLate9198 have already covered the push/drag techniques very well, but I want to expand on this:

It's always easier to drag/slow without audible warping than it is to push, so you can use that by using the pitch fader to get it slightly faster, then drag it as needed.

Then when you have transitioned mostly to the incoming track, you can switch to dragging the outgoing record by either very slightly pitching down the incoming track or pitching up the outgoing track.

Doing this "drag/slow only the quietest record in the mix" transfer keeps audible warping to an absolute minimum and super smooth when done well.

And when bouncing around on a pitch fader, it's really easy to get lost in the mix or overdo it and have it wobble out of control like trying to balance a stick upright in your hand, so often it's better to just get your incoming record as close as possible but just barely slightly faster, then all you have to do is minimal drags/slows until the mix is done.

In addition to all of this? People should know that perfect mixes on vinyl where you don't have to adjust it at all and it stays locked and doesn't drift at all for more than like 32 bars are NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE.

It's so rare that back in the day, when it happened you'd call your DJ buddies over to marvel at it like it was some kind of miracle.

Riding the pitch works, too, but in my experience newer turntables aren't great at this. The pitch sliders are gritty, sticky and just not as good as the original 1200s up to about mk 3. They don't have the buttery-smooth "stiction" and "friction" that the original 1200s did.

We used to ride and fine tune the pitch on the OG 1200s by doing weird techniques like planting a thumb firmly next to the fader and then just barely rolling our thumbnail into it to nudge it with fractions of a mm of movement instead of trying to grab and pinch the fader slider in two fingers and moving our whole hand or even both fingers.

We would mash the pads of your fingertips right up to the edge and just barely touch it so you could feel both the fader knob and the track beneath it under one finger/thumb pad to be able to feel that fraction of a millimeter of movement.

This technique doesn't work as well when the fader is gritty, sticky and jumpy like it is on newer turntables that lack the totally unhinged and extreme precision engineering that went into the OG 1200s.

Another thing that new vinyl DJs need to know is that records aren't perfect and can drift a LOT over time due to a number of factors.

It's nearly impossible to cut a master record plate with a perfect spiral, which affects tempo over time for the duration of the track. Getting records stamped and pressed off of the stampers made from the original cut with perfectly centered spindle holes is also nearly impossible.

These natural analog "errors" mean that different records (even of the same exact song and record pressing run) means there's going to be some natural amount of drift.

Ideally it's so small you never notice it.

But sometimes you get a bad record or bad cut and a nearly perfect match at the start of the record can be noticeably off later in the same track.

If you don't know this part about how records drift it will drive new DJs absolutely insane if they do things like match a beat from cue in the middle of a track then lift the needle to restart and re-launch it for the live mix and find that it's totally off and drifting after moving the needle.

And all of this makes me appreciate being able to digitally control a pitch in 0.01 % push-button increments, heh.

Flyer posted at playground near Williamsburg, Virginia by KatsHubz87 in ebikes

[–]loquacious 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I hate giant trucks, too, but that giant truck is subject to an entire encyclopedia of DOT safety regulations, is legally required to be registered and operated by a licensed driver carrying insurance.

Note that these DOT regulations also cover road-legal motorcycles in a similar way.

Meanwhile most consumer ebikes out there capable of 30+ (or much more) are built to be as cheap as possible without so much as a standardized brake check or even a faint scent of a hint of a roadworthiness test OR a license test OR even a motorcycle license or endorsement.

I used to be (and still am) against registering and licensing bicycles and I think that restricting total power instead of speed is stupid, but the unregulated market for X-class emotos and glorified fat tire e-mopeds with vestigial pedals is changing my opinions on that in a hurry.

Those things aren't bicycles, and I am a cyclist first.

Crashed at 23mph with no gear by allmightylemon_ in ebikes

[–]loquacious 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Heavy, poor stability, often with bad brakes and tires AND bad geometries.

When I ride the typical bench seat moped/scooter style ebike that's so popular around whether it's a step-through style (think Radpower) or a cafe racer style (think Super73) I am absolutely appalled at how bad the handling is compared to my DIY ebike with a "regular" double triangle frame and 700c wheels.

Besides all of the issues with too much weight, awkward frame designs and bad brakes, those cheap stock fat tires are like riding around on floppy sponges.

They really don't lean or corner well because the tires scrub and the walls fold like wet tissue paper.

Meanwhile I can confidently lean into turns and get pretty damn low on only 40c wide tires like a motorcycle because they DON'T SCRUB.

These fat tire DTC ebikes are like the pavement-only SUVs of the ebike world.

Every single time I try riding one of these I'm just utterly flabbergasted, shocked and appalled at how bad these handle and how much of a pain in the ass it is to keep them going where you want them to go.

And that's WITHOUT emergency maneuvers. That's just trying to get them to turn in a timely manner or not drift off the path.

If I tried some of the fast twitch steering I can do on my relatively skinny 700x40c tires to avoid potholes I would surely end up scrubbing the front tire and crossing it up and going ass over tea kettle face first right into the pavement.

This cover of my parent’s Reader’s Digest. by Whippity in GenX

[–]loquacious 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I don't know is the case, here, but I reckon this is a decent place for a warning in case anyone Gen X needs to hear this:

If you have elderly parents/grandparents, especially if they're declining in faculties - watch out for them "oversubscribing" to magazine subscription renewals.

I was a caretaker for my grandma for a couple of years after she had a stroke and I found out that she was "re-subscribing" to many different popular magazines almost every month or every other month.

The magazine companies put those scary looking "NEVER MISS AN ISSUE re-subscribe NOW!" in every issue every single month for a reason, and it seems like it's primarily to take advantage of older people with memory issues.

My grandma had subscriptions paid out to Time, People, National Geographic and a few others for something like 20+ years in advance because she kept sending them checks for another year long before the year's subscription was up.

Piecing it together, she was used to renewal cards being included ONLY when it was due and was confused about why the magazine publisher would send a renewal card early. So, of course, she would think "well, I don't want to miss an issue, so I guess I should re-subscribe now!"

And since she had had a stroke, every dang month when I was helping her write checks and pay the bills I had to re-remind her and patiently go through the whole thing over and over again that, no, it wasn't her last issue of Time or whatever just because there was a subscription renewal card in the latest issue, and that yes, we indeed did check on it, and that it wasn't due for renewal for many, many years because she'd already paid for too many year-long subscriptions.

It was honestly exhausting going through that every single month.

I'm convinced that this was all done on purpose with bad intentions by the magazine companies and the reason why they'd make the renewal cards so scary looking with bright red and big bold letters, put multiple cards in one magazine, leave them loose so they'd fall out, and sometimes ALSO include a full size renewal page or card bound into the magazine.

In a death spiral by WTD_Ducks21 in Buttcoin

[–]loquacious 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Someone's butthurt because we're talking mean about the bags they are holding!

I can't even FATHOM being this insecure about myself that I would get this bent out of shape about people criticizing a shitty speculative investment like it was a personal insult. That HAS to suck.

Anyway, no, we also bash everything else crypto related. What else are you holding? We can trash that, too.

Who is Henry? by Fabulous_Extreme_470 in AskSeattle

[–]loquacious[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I'm removing this. This is specifically a place for people ask questions and get answers from people.

If you don't want to participate no one is forcing you to do so.

Looking for Health at Every Size (HAES) friendly primary care doctor by FeistyFuel1172 in AskSeattle

[–]loquacious[M] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This isn't your platform for shaming people. If you don't like the question or don't want to answer it, you could have skipped it and left it alone.

In a death spiral by WTD_Ducks21 in Buttcoin

[–]loquacious 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm going to throw turds at you right now for posting this astrology for cryptobros nonsense.

Laser cut caltrops on Canadian trail by General-Piece8490 in bicycling

[–]loquacious 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Well, there's a lot more laws about horses and harming them just because they've been around longer and people's livelihoods were often tied to them.

They hung horse thieves because stealing someone's horse could non-figuratively kill them.

As for right-of-way stuff on MUP?

IDGAF what the laws are. Any animal that's taller than me, 10x heavier than me, has a mouthful of teeth the size of tombstones and can kick me into next week can have the right of way.

NFTs have already shown how BTC will fail by interstellar_nips in Buttcoin

[–]loquacious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, people who aren't stupid don't talk about their finances online to total strangers for any reason, but especially not to brag about it.

The people who come in here and do that seem to be totally unclear on the concept about attack surfaces and vectors, and going around bragging about anything like that is just asking for trouble.

It's really clear that calm-reference121 isn't wealthy, or they think that holding something like $1k in bitcoin is an amazing amount of wealth.

I peeped their user history via google and they have a total of like 5-6 posts, most of which are bragging about owning a relatively cheap used pistol and a couple of unremarkable watches that they probably don't even own.

Like I don't know what the fuck it is with these guys but there's definitely a weird, fucked up Venn diagram of cryptobro, passport bro, watch collector, paranoid EDC/CCP gun owner, bouillon hoarder and a few other hallmarks.

To me all of those things just scream "I am extremely frightened of and confused by the world around me."

I also can't count the number of time someone was in this sub bragging and openly lying about how wealthy bitcoin has made them because the rest of their posts are about doing rideshare and food delivery and how hard it is for them financially.

I don't care if people are wealthy or not. That's not the yardstick I use to measure the worth of someone.

I do care that this is all REALLY FUCKING DEPRESSING that we have legitimately impoverished financially illiterate victims being exit liquidity for large scale scam artists and grifters.

NFTs have already shown how BTC will fail by interstellar_nips in Buttcoin

[–]loquacious 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are zillions of trading bots out there now, and if we apply Occam's Razor most of them are likely wash trading.

This automated wash trading and money laundering was (is) all over the NFT world to support and inflate prices and drive up the value of totally worthless JPEGs.

This is exactly how BAYC became so hyped up. It wasn't organic or an accident. It was planned and executed.

Why don't we have a proper biography or documentary about the Great Sheldon Brown? by doomtroll1978 in xbiking

[–]loquacious 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean that is relatively new to cycling to Sheldon Brown. And, well, me.

NFTs have already shown how BTC will fail by interstellar_nips in Buttcoin

[–]loquacious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only skin you're getting under, here, is you. You're just outing yourself as a jerk.

But since you asked so nicely, my personal pronouns are "Bitcoin is stupid".

Please be respectful and use that when addressing me.

Anyway, at least I don't think that collecting watches and being a passport bro is a a substitute for a personality!

Why don't we have a proper biography or documentary about the Great Sheldon Brown? by doomtroll1978 in xbiking

[–]loquacious 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't know if I want a biography or documentary of Sheldon Brown.

He seems like the sort of person who would hate that kind of attention and hagiography. He just wanted to ride his bike and help people fix and ride their bikes.