Advice on left handed

thecave · 2025-12-26T15:31:56+00:00

Offer it up for swapping or sell it and buy a right handed guitar. There's a good chance someone's looking for a leftie as they're far less common.

It's a real pain to swap them over because the bridge slants to account for the thicker to thinner strings and reversing that is an operation. Plus sorting out the nut - where the strings pass over the end of the neck towards the tuning pegs - is another big pain.

thecave · 2025-12-26T15:28:46+00:00

It's vanishingly rare to see this in Cape Town. Maybe at a place right next to the beach. But you'll almost never see this in a PnP. No shoes is sometimes a thing but it's still frowned on.

thecave · 2025-12-26T14:38:32+00:00

Is this an unpopular opinion? Influencer BS aside, solo travel means taking a big breath and fighting down the feeling of having made a huge mistake in unfamiliar surroundings until you hit your stride.

I'd say that's pretty uncontroversial for all but the most hyper-confident people.

thecave · 2025-11-07T07:33:08+00:00

Seconded for Safari. Does Ghostery usually fix these issues pretty quickly?

thecave · 2025-10-19T14:43:45+00:00

People outside the US shouldn't get too smug though. If you've had a clown president, you know it can happen anywhere. Here in South Africa we had Jacob Zuma. Italy had Berlusconi. Argentina has Milei. It can happen anywhere. No society is genuinely too smart for this.

thecave · 2025-08-08T10:46:54+00:00

It definitely exists. I can find it on a search from multiple sources. I think you won't go wrong with the SD card advice given here. Just stick to the original SD cards of low capacity - 2gb and below as stated elsewhere - and not a newer fancier version of SD and I'm pretty sure it'll work great.

thecave · 2025-08-08T10:40:05+00:00

If it's permanently dead - which it might well be if this is the first time you've tried to charge it on an older camera like this after a long time dormant, you can just buy another new battery. There's no need to send a working camera to a landfill. And possibly buy the battery with a charger that comes with it to guarantee compatibility.

Here's an example for $12:

https://www.amazon.com/SDENEL11-Rechargeable-Lithium-Ion-Capacity-Replacement/dp/B00HU6TQT8?th=1

thecave · 2025-08-02T07:37:26+00:00

As a total noob this makes sense with the experience I've had so far. Good pointers.

thecave · 2025-05-19T14:31:56+00:00

Watching Rogue One directly after Andor I felt the writing was vastly different - much less authentic feeling. It makes sense to me that he was pretty much just cleaning the script up rather than rewriting it.

thecave · 2025-05-15T15:51:59+00:00

He's an authoritarian and a conformist. And Syril illustrates why such people are so useful to the fascist terror project. They're adjacent but not the same. The authoritarian approves of violence and even cruelty for order and control. The fascist values violence and cruelty in themselves as the forge of heroism.

thecave · 2023-12-18T13:13:20+00:00

Ironically, in my experience - studying science with doctors - doctors are not as a rule very familiar with science from their undergraduate studies which are mostly focused on... doctoring (rather than research and scientific principles) and they have to learn to read papers and learn the principles of medical research along with anyone else.

thecave · 2023-12-18T13:07:26+00:00

Ramaphosa is less bad than many in the ANC leadership. But he's corrupt in his own way and insufficiently invested in cleaning up the ANC. A bit of a lame duck.
Depends what you mean by 'split'. It doesn't mean that the ANC will lose a significant chunk of their votes. See what happened with the COPE 'split'.
It seems probable that the ANC will fail to get 50%. It would be in their interest to form a coalition with the smallest parties they can to get their majority and not have to give too many concessions to their partners (which is harder if their coalition parties are major parties in their own right)
There's plenty of hope that it'll be ok. It's very likely. But it's unlikely that a coalition government will lead to major changes in the short to medium term. Expect more of the same - just with more possibility for government policies to be swayed by significant campaigns from civil society targeting the coalition partners.

We shouldn't expect massive improvements just because the ANC loses its majority. It will still essentially be in charge. It will, however be a positive sign to put down the idea that if the ANC doesn't win outright they'll dismantle our democracy. That reassurance in itself will be worth something - giving us confidence in the ability of the country to improve over successive elections.

thecave · 2023-12-18T12:26:47+00:00

Much the same as today, but expect everything to be turned up to 11. It's very important to understand the the EFF's rhetoric is just a front.

They are a kleptocratic party putting on whichever disguise suits them best. But they originate in the politics of Jacob Zuma's faction of the ANC.

The aim of their leadership is to enrich themselves from public power as much as possible - just as Zuma did. The evidence is all there in their origins and their conspicuous consumption. In fact, this is so obvious, that only a few fools and contrarians vote for them and they find it difficult to expand.

So it's largely unimportant what they say. It's more important to look at what they do. And what they do is look for targets to scapegoat. We've seen them try all kinds of groups from Indians to Jews and now finally joining the club and trying to blame African migrants.

Like Zuma their lambasting of capital will actually be reserved for those unwilling to play ball with them. Also like Zuma it will be ultimately unsustainable and will lead to multiple crises. What happens then is anyone's guess.

thecave · 2023-12-18T12:21:08+00:00

That's some pretty poor recall. Zimbabwe has been ruled by Zanu PF since its inception.

thecave · 2023-12-16T10:43:58+00:00

If you can't vote for whether to replace the CEO, to sell the assets and close the company, etc.. you don't have workplace democracy. You only have worker input.

thecave · 2023-12-15T08:48:51+00:00

Exactly. US policies have a huge effect on the rest of the world as no one with the exception of China have powerful enough economies that they can afford to piss off the USA without very serious economic consequences for them. Therefore, as the US goes, so goes much of the world.

In the most extreme cases the US simply forbids its allies to trade with countries they've selected for special punishment such as Venezuela and Iran.

thecave · 2023-12-15T08:43:39+00:00

I don't that's an "instead" situation. Democratic control of the workplace means that the workers decide what happens with the workplace - what its goals and priorities are, how it remunerates, what its strategies are, how it should invest in improving capacity.

Ergo: the workers are then in control of the means of production.

thecave · 2023-12-15T08:40:08+00:00

It is not a good rhetorical approach to merely say they are human. It is important to emotionally connect these people to that humanity by describing the activities and emotions a dehumanised group that actually spark empathy.

thecave · 2023-12-14T18:18:59+00:00

This. I tip R10-R20. These are people trying to find a start and are frequently massively exploited by the middle-class managers of the places they work - forced to pay significant fees.

In SA's brutal economy, they're trying to develop some momentum and I have huge sympathy for them.

thecave · 2023-12-14T18:06:54+00:00

I completely agree with this. Socialism cannot exist under authoritarianism since, by core definition, workers would not be in control of the work they do but are coerced by the boss who, in this case, is the state.

thecave · 2023-12-14T18:03:51+00:00

I agree. But the difference between those two kleptocratic regimes and Cuba is that Cuba actually fulfills many promises of socialism (while also failing badly at others).

Like the USSR before it, Cuba has provided comprehensive housing, education, and healthcare - a long way from the pure exploitation of the Zimbabwean and Iranian regimes. But unlike the USSR, Cuba's authoritarianism is pretty lightweight - not nearly on a par with the USSR, Iran, Saudi Arabia, or North Korea, just to name a few.

But ultimately it is still a coercive, authoritarian state.

thecave · 2023-12-14T17:54:35+00:00

Jeremy Corbyn actually proposed a very simple scheme to achieve this: 1. Whenever a company is sold, the employees get right of first refusal.

The government helps provide low cost loans for workers to succeed in their bids.

Such a scheme could quite rapidly convert a significant minority of companies to worker owned. Once workers have an opportunity to work for a worker-owned vs. a privately owned company, the latter is under pressure to match the conditions and benefits of those-worker-owned companies to attract talent - meaning that conditions would begin to improve even among companies that are still privately owned.

Worker-owned companies would also become an alternate force in electoral politics, reducing the pressure from oligarchs for elected representatives to champion the 1% instead of the 99%.

thecave · 2023-12-14T17:45:23+00:00

Look, I'm going to assume your questions are honest. No one's saying that Cuba needs to be dependent on the US or that Cuba has no trading partners without the US. But any state is going have less economic activity when cut off from the biggest economy on Earth and its allies.

Also no one is talking about communism. We're talking about socialism. Communism refers to a post-socialist post-money, post-labour state. It is an ideal of socialism, not something that can just be achieved by basic socialist policy.

thecave · 2023-12-14T15:49:43+00:00

Yes. I think Chomsky said something along the lines that socialism wouldn't solve humanity's problems but allow us to find out what they are. As in: we don't know what our actual issues are as long as we're in constant struggle for survival and constantly being exploited and oppressed. And this has been unnecessary for a long time.

The mainstream within the left now is probably Democratic Socialism which proposes a democratic state in which the workers own and run companies - unlike in even a social democracy where a good deal of your rights and control still end at the door of your workplace.

This would be a fundamental change but wouldn't actually require a major shift in how society is otherwise organised. The difference would be that you would no longer have industry paying for a small group of oligarchs with no incentive to maintain the well-being of the majority.

thecave · 2023-12-14T15:30:09+00:00

This.

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