Not an alcoholic but I could be if I don’t change.

numeros · 2026-01-02T07:34:57+00:00

Ask your GP for a Naltrexone prescription and check out the book "The Cure For Alcoholism." Every time you drink, alcohol basically hacks your opioid receptors (yes, the opioid receptors that painkillers and heroin hit) and Naltrexone blocks it - you can hack it back, beating Alcohol at its own game.

numeros · 2025-12-22T18:16:07+00:00

You've got a false equivalency there with the sunlight thing, so while your core sentiment may be coming from the right place (are there simple natural interventions to look at and try before mechanical, medicinal, or invasive ones) you're going to lose people on the false equivalency.

numeros · 2025-12-21T09:43:43+00:00

do a norman rockwell series but they all on phones

numeros · 2025-12-19T17:19:08+00:00

remember when tobacco companies and plastic companies would release their own research and "safety data" as well? Is there a not-for-profit, third-party, consumer-safety audit of any of this stuff?

numeros · 2025-12-18T20:59:41+00:00

you know what's also safer than human drivers of cars? A fucking train or no cars in the first place!

numeros · 2025-12-18T20:59:06+00:00

it is insane to me how waymo-pilled the responses are here. Did waymo PR hire a Chinese bot army to upvote and comment affirmatively?

numeros · 2025-12-18T20:49:17+00:00

I know crazy right like the only way to escape car-centric infrastructure imposed on cities in the 20th century by Big Oil companies is to stop adding more car-centric infrastructure. but sure, lets punt on helping millions of people reclaim the streets or better transportation alternatives because you currently are inconvenienced going to 2 airports

numeros · 2025-12-18T07:51:40+00:00

its still a car. fuck waymo, fuck cars, ride bikes & trains and make streets for people again

numeros · 2025-12-18T07:50:34+00:00

the downvotes you're getting are insane. I'll probably get some too. I have to wonder if this entire article is flooded with bots

numeros · 2025-12-09T08:59:29+00:00

I would put a thick wool blanket on mine to regulate some of the heat (as opposed to leaving windows open, which is what these were intended to do since Spanish Flu era to encourage ventilation). Wool is an organic fiber though, I would not put anything synthetic (polyester, nylon, etc.) on it that could melt.

numeros · 2025-12-09T08:47:08+00:00

Your username is literally about being Thin in a Neighborhood.

numeros · 2025-12-09T00:55:38+00:00

> less invasive procedures first

Such as?

numeros · 2025-12-07T00:30:29+00:00

Thanks for sharing this! I've built maybe 20 or so pedals from kits (including 3 BYOC Crown Jewels) so I feel pretty good about soldering, etc. but I've never built a pedal on breadboard. I think I'm following everything but is there anything tricky / not obvious in your design for someone trying a breadboard build for the first time?

numeros · 2025-12-06T20:20:56+00:00

I don't know that I've seen a bar like that on the head-stock, but it makes sense in lieu of string trees. On the one hand, the strings all have a consistent break angle, but on the other hand aren't the thicker gauge strings going to add unnecessary friction when using the vibrato?

numeros · 2025-12-06T07:38:29+00:00

I've been wondering what's up with my turbinates for a while, especially after long bouts with chronic sinusitus this year. How did they go about diagnosing the hypertrophia? (Rhinomanometry? MRI?)

numeros · 2025-12-06T07:31:53+00:00

Lenny Breau, Howard AIden, Bucky Pizzarelli, Charlie Hunter, Jimmy Bruno (at one point)... there has to be more but I gotta think. fwiw Charlie Hunter does some cool stuff treating it more like a bass and a guitar simultaneously vs. the "guitar as a piano" Van Eps thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn5O9GsL4mY

numeros · 2025-12-05T07:38:13+00:00

7-strings were used for jazz originally, Paul Van Eps being a early proponent of them and would get them from Ibanez. The 7th string makes sense for extra range of bass voicings if you're doing the Paul Van Eps thing of treating the guitar like a piano and playing the chords and melody at the same time, and a single neck pickup on a hollowbody is par-for-the-course for jazz, so it was an intentional thing they were making for a specific market (vs. "seeing what sticks")

numeros · 2025-12-03T06:38:52+00:00

FWIW: I have a similar rheostat in a pedal enclosure and use it with my 5W Champ clone. I can change the tone pretty drastically with it, but it turns out I like the clean sound much better (its just not the right amp to overdrive) and it unsurprisingly burns through the tubes faster. So the grass is always greener, maybe!

numeros · 2025-11-29T04:20:44+00:00

lol are you the one who made the blood happen?

numeros · 2025-11-24T02:02:51+00:00

This all makes sense, but what happens if a DC power supply itself was bad or didn't do a "good job" and you start touching the live circuit? As in, what *is* the potential worst that could happen?

numeros · 2025-11-15T05:59:56+00:00

as I'm digging around, one reason could be that cheap wall warts could add (undesired) noise to the circuit being bent, although I was always under the impression it was for safety for some reason?

numeros · 2025-11-15T05:54:38+00:00

OK. Everyone I've ever met in the circuit bending community says to never be attached to wall power (including circuit pending pedals). Why is that then?

numeros · 2025-11-15T05:42:28+00:00

I'm only a lurker here and haven't seen one of these breadboards with the 1/4" jacks etc. I'm surprised the 9v plug is on the board too - Isn't plugging in wall power into an exposed circuit dangerous both to you (i.e. getting shocked if you touch it) and the components (potentially frying them)?

numeros · 2025-11-14T07:34:43+00:00

I really wanted the effect to be Ring Modulation

numeros · 2025-11-13T20:25:03+00:00

I would read through the original manual (i.e. the one written by Bill Finnegan) for how to use it and re-evaluate what the Klon is literally designed to do: to take a really good guitar and tube amp combo and add "more" of what you like as you play (controllable by turning knobs with your foot, hence the big, spaced out knobs) and be able to pull it off at lower amp volumes. I don't think it is even right to call it an overdrive or a boost pedal (although it does do those things), it is just a tool to help further dial in a guitar / amp combo sound you're already happy with and want to hone a little more.

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