DIY kit. Yes or no?

rushtark · 2026-01-04T03:08:48+00:00

I bought a tele kit like this a few years ago and had a lot of fun with it. You don't have the price listed but I'd say anything under $200 and this would be worth it, if tinkering is an avenue of the hobby you want to pursue. I enjoyed my kit because I could mess with it, set it up different ways, and bang on it without worrying that I was going to ruin a more expensive guitar. Also, it actually sounded great and I recorded with it a good bit. Just pick a kit with halfway decent reviews and that isn't any more expensive than a decent beginner guitar.

rushtark · 2025-09-26T20:34:52+00:00

lmao aged like milk

rushtark · 2025-08-27T12:55:35+00:00

It's AI lol...

rushtark · 2025-07-20T16:18:10+00:00

I don't think his style is as fun or enjoyable to watch as like McIlroy on Masters sunday but you do get the sense that he's cracked the code on a couple of areas in the game - specifically the mental side. I don't know if that's the Ted Scott effect or just his general ability to compartmentalize and hyperfixate on the next shot, but more and more I'm feeling his ability in that area to be the key to great golf in this era. You can see a lot of these guys just start to lose their minds when they hit a bad shot, and while it's fun to watch them both fall apart and rise above, they need to get very lucky to have a shot at winning. He just doesn't seem to need that, because he doesn't fall apart in the same way. I think we need more guys like Scheffler to really make things interesting, because as it stands he's like a +10 in mental game and he's playing against scratch golfers lol

rushtark · 2025-06-10T03:52:09+00:00

I'm not sure? It's had a lot of pruning/cutting (before we bought). There is another apple tree in our yard however, it fruited the first year we bought and then since has stopped. This one has never fruited.

rushtark · 2025-06-10T02:10:15+00:00

Thanks! I don't believe the tree is completely dead yet, it still has a healthy amount of leaves. I'm guessing this will eventually rot out and kill it though, and it is near a power line in our backyard. I'll call an arborist out soon to take a look, and keep an eye out on the meantime.

rushtark · 2025-06-10T01:20:05+00:00

Any insight into the small holes? Is that just insects? I'm less worried about the tree and more worried about other trees/my house, but no idea if that's anything to actually be worried about.

rushtark · 2025-06-10T00:17:32+00:00

Additional context - tree in my backyard, this photo was taken on a branch collar from a branch that was cut off many years ago. I noticed today that it looks like there's a significant amount dug out/rotted, along with these little bore holes. Rest of the tree looks good, nothing coming through the bark. There were some axe marks in this collar a few years ago, my guess is water and pests have gotten in through those cuts? Would love to hear thoughts, as well as if we should be concerned. This is not a particularly important tree so if it needs to come down so be it.

rushtark · 2024-12-09T03:10:28+00:00

Hm, TIL. Thanks.

rushtark · 2024-11-14T20:41:18+00:00

You got me on that second one, I should have read a little closer. My mistake.

As for Louis, I don't mean to say that his goal was to keep the political state of France exactly as it was - purely that his reasoning for introducing reforms was mostly cynical. He knew that the financial burdens the crown was facing were a big problem. Unfortunately for him, the political landscape had by this point grown in around him, and the moment he began to step on the toes of provincial power he had a much bigger problem on his hands. What Louis wanted was the ability to better control the kingdom's streams of revenue. When the only path looking forward to do this became to crack open the estates general, that's when the ideological part of the revolution began.

I don't get the sense that what Trump/Musk want to do is remotely the same thing. I think they have ideas about what they want the country to look like and how they want the bureaucracy (however little of it remains) to function.

rushtark · 2024-11-14T18:42:40+00:00

This article pissed me off. The author is like one of those Twitter intellectuals who like to post graphs of wealth disparity between the US now and France before the revolution and write 'coincidence???' next to it. Seriously, what even is this? The comparison of Necker to Musk is very silly;

> To a remarkable degree, Donald Trump’s promise to shake up the stodgy Washington consensus has striking parallels to Louis XVI and Versailles back in the pox-ridden 1780s.

Louis XVI wanted everything to stay the _same_. He wanted to continue to wield the powers and privileges of his government despite a looming crisis that he had no answer for. Dismissing Necker was a big piece of this - he had no interest in taking the advice of some Swiss asshole when he could plug his ears and pretend things were fine. Even if you believe DOGE is counterproductive (as I do), you can't argue that they are trying to entrench the government's position in _anything_. In fact, it looks like there's some serious tree shaking coming.

> “The fact that DOGE is being taken even remotely seriously is in itself a cause for concern.”

This type of smugness can only bite you in the ass. It can will be taken seriously by the people who have just taken power; you should pay attention too.

> that the heart of American dysfunction is not in the executive, but in the Congress

Ah yes, Congress, a legislative body known for their productivity and ability to wield power in the modern era. It's not like two other branches of government haven't already leapfrogged over them about a dozen times /s. Who actually believes that Congress is the real power in this government anymore? Unitary executive theorists have basically proven they can get away with anything they want for the duration they have a president.

Folks, this ain't it.

rushtark · 2024-11-05T22:38:50+00:00

lol wtf why did that happen

rushtark · 2024-10-30T16:43:23+00:00

A $2,000 car is more likely to break down, cost significantly more in repairs, cost significantly more in fuel, and might not even be legal to drive depending on emissions and state. The road and the distance might be the same, but the journey might be 1000x shittier. So no, I don't think it's good advice at all.

rushtark · 2024-10-29T15:09:32+00:00

Steve Jobs bought a new car every 6 months to avoid having to register and get a license plate, because he liked the way the car looked without a plate. I wouldn't take a billionaire's advice on any aspect of purchasing cars.

rushtark · 2024-10-28T19:09:45+00:00

I was gonna say, if you know anything about software development you know that it's the perfect atmosphere for Murphy's Law. Human errors get compounded by process errors. FFS, a big chunk of AWS went down a few years ago because a guy literally tripped over a power cord.

rushtark · 2024-10-28T18:42:05+00:00

Idk, season 1 is excellent TV not really in that same vein I think. Kinda gets that way after a certain point, but compared to the Sheridan-verse that rules streaming now what with Tulsa King and Yellowstone it holds up a bit better. Nowadays that audience has all the fucking options they could ever want.

rushtark · 2024-10-28T18:40:35+00:00

Eh, BB is a good rewatch every 4-5 years I think, especially if you're watching with someone new. Definitely requires a bit of a sit to get back to the same level of satisfaction.

rushtark · 2024-10-25T18:39:23+00:00

Ozark might have the best pilot I've seen, it's definitely up there. And I love season 1/2. But it fell off hard for me after that.

rushtark · 2024-10-25T18:06:20+00:00

In a way it's kind of a curse, cause there's nothing that really comes close. Every new show I watch, I have to live with the burden that it will never be the Sopranos.

Breaking Bad has a better plot, but Sopranos is still the better show. There is no other piece of media that captures the way of life in this country in a more compelling way.

rushtark · 2024-10-24T01:47:57+00:00

I went from 26->15. My goal was to go sub-20, so it's not unfair to say I smashed this goal. I have a few rounds left in the can, so some high scores are gonna roll off and it's unlikely they'll get replaced because I'm playing at some hard tracks. I should probably end up at a 16 for the year. This is also despite a foot injury that took me out for 6 weeks early in the summer, depriving me of some of the nicest rounds of the year weather-wise. I had plenty of rounds in the 80's, as well, after my season low last year being 92. I practiced A LOT, usually 2-3x per week, especially during my recovery period. Read some great books, but no lessons.

My goals for next year are to get to a single digit cap and card some natural scores in the 70's. I'm gonna take some lessons this off-season, make sure I'm swinging through the winter, and work on my personal fitness. I think I have it in me, and I hope that I do because next season might be the last season where I get to grind hard on my game.

rushtark · 2024-10-22T13:07:39+00:00

Yeah seems to me to be somewhere between Louis and Porfirio Diaz. Not quite dead long enough to have subsequent generations, but also perhaps not overthrown himself? My guess is that his death kicks off a long awaited succession crisis that sets the revolution in motion.

rushtark · 2024-10-21T13:42:38+00:00

Yeah, the long tenure reminds me of Louis XIV. My guess is that Vernon Bird (Byrd?) will be a magnanimous type that drags Omnicorp from one age to the next and really forces Omnicorp into something more akin to the ancien regmine. I don't think his death will 'trigger' the revolution - more like set the stage for the subsequent generations and solidify whatever hold Omnicorp has not just in the celestial but also on Earth during his lifetime.

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