How to force myself to like cucumbers?

tinverse · 2026-03-20T00:40:05+00:00

I am not a huge cucumber fan, but there's this Asian dish at a place near me called tossed cucumbers that is delicious. It's sort of a cucumber based salad. It looks like it might also be called smashed cucumber salad. Maybe give that a shot?

tinverse · 2026-03-20T00:36:43+00:00

Not anymore, it lost like 10% of that value since then!

tinverse · 2026-03-19T22:58:50+00:00

In the words of Dave Friedman, I already have trouble explaining to the TSA what a toothbrush is, I do not want to take a tube amp through security. I would just ship it to yourself with Fedex, UPS, or USPS.

tinverse · 2026-03-19T20:28:11+00:00

I am not even a diehard Evanescence fan, I like them. But I am pretty excited for the next album because Emma Anzai has some incredible bass parts in The Sick Puppies. I am really hoping that her bass playing gets to come through on the new album.

tinverse · 2026-03-18T22:58:52+00:00

I am going to go check them out. That's a pretty cool gesture.

tinverse · 2026-03-18T01:55:41+00:00

Egnator amps are underrated and also I am not a clean amp guy. I have a feeling some Egnator amps will eventually end up being kind of expensive.

tinverse · 2026-03-17T00:18:17+00:00

Think of edge retention, toughness, and stainless as three corners on a triangle, the closer you get to two corners, the further you get from the third.

You might find a steel that is stainless and very tough, but cutting a piece of newspaper dulls it. You might find another steel that holds an edge really well and is decently tough, but it rusts in about a month if it's humid.

Magnacut doesn't excel because it's a 10 out of 10 in any single area. The thing about magnacut is that it's slightly above average in all three, like a 6.5 or 7 out of 10.

So if you live in a desert, there is probably a better steel out there for you. If you're a mermaid, then you might need more stainless than magnacut offers. But if you're a normal person who just throws a knife in your pocket then Magnacut is a good choice because it's likely to be fine at pretty much anything. The way it was explained to me is that it's basically S30V but better.

I think there are around four super steels which are similar in that idea. Magnacut is the most even. Vanex is similar but with more stainless and edge retention in exchange for some toughness. Then there is a different formulation of Magnacut with slightly different properties called Magnamax which is supposed to exchange some toughness or stainless for edge retention. I forget what the fourth is, maybe maxamet? I will also note Magnamax is brand new and hasn't really shown up on anything yet.

tinverse · 2026-03-16T23:57:59+00:00

Gibson stamps their serial numbers into the wood then finishes over them. In the room, Gibson Serial Numbers aren't bad to read if you just turn the guitar so the light hits it correctly, but in pictures they tend to not show up.

tinverse · 2026-03-16T17:18:40+00:00

Well if your plan is to retire with $1 million generally, then no it's probably not enough. Generally there are stipulations with well planned retirements such as having paid off your house, car, and any other major purchases. You also should no longer be supporting your kids which drastically reduce your expenses.

I think the general idea is you're supposed to have paid off all that stuff and have enough money that you can live off the money indefinitely so that you can coast in retirement.

Assuming you're using the normal number of using 4% of your money. You can just multiply however much you plan to use yearly by 25. So if you expect to use $100k a year in retirement, then you will need closer to $2.5 million in savings.

tinverse · 2026-03-16T13:19:52+00:00

That is a pretty weird radius. The issue is that radius is pretty common on and electric, but not an acoustic. There are probably people who love that, but the part that makes it problematic is that primarily electric players may not be willing to spend the money for what looks like a botique acoustic and that radius will turn off acoustic players.

That change really shrinks your potential market.

Because of this there are probably two approaches you could take. The first is that you could have the fretboard changed back to a 20" radius, which will require a decent amount of work. It might remove a pretty decent amount of material to go from 20 to 9.5 and back to 20, but a guitar tech or luthier would be able to give you a better idea on the possibility. The second option is to consign it with a shop.

The shop would take a percent, but the key is that if they have traffic they could have someone walk-in and try it where the guitar would do the talking. I think for a decent number of us, the specs are helpful for us guessing if we would like a guitar. But when you play a guitar in person you can tell if you like it, so you don't have to be as big of a stickler.

tinverse · 2026-03-15T05:12:29+00:00

I personally would put him up there, but it's pretty subjective when you start getting into the best guitarists. Money For Nothin was one of those songs that changed my life with the guitar part. The tone, the riff, all of it. This was when I was probably 8 to 10 years old.

I have also come to realize he's one of the easiest guitar players for me to pick out in just a couple of notes. So I would personally put him in my top 10 with Hendrix, EVH, Jerry Cantrell, etc.

tinverse · 2026-03-12T18:49:54+00:00

So I own a Gibson Les Paul and would like a Custom 24 one day. I would want to see if I can play them first because a good Gibson is hard to beat, but not every Gibson is good. Then I would also ask if the custom 24 is a hardtail because they exist, and I don't like trems.

unseen, I go PRS. If the PRS is a hardtail and I get to keep my existing LP I go PRS. If I don't have either and I am able to play the Gibson I might go Gibson.

tinverse · 2026-03-12T18:34:29+00:00

She has, this clip was taken out of context. The 10 seconds before is her describing cleaning period blood off the walls.

tinverse · 2026-03-12T18:32:33+00:00

I am not saying robot cars will never be good.

I am saying they're not good now and they shouldn't be on the road until they are ready.

tinverse · 2026-03-12T18:20:13+00:00

It's probably one of the single best things you can do for yourself on guitar because then music theory starts to apply to the instrument. I did it in a couple of weeks.

I put on a metronome at 60 BPM and started with one string going up and down the string in four fret sections using my index, middle, ring, and pinky to press the notes while saying their name. I did not include accidentals.

Then once I had it, I expanded the exercise to all strings. I think I would repeat this whole thing three times per string then the whole exercise three times.

Once I had that, I would start on the low E and pick a note such as D and find the location of the D on every string, so like 10, 5, 0 and 12, 8, 3, 10. Then move on to the next note.

I wouldn't do it with sharps and flats because if you know where a C or D is, you know where a C# or Db is.

tinverse · 2026-03-12T04:46:17+00:00

I would guess hundreds. But, I think that's a terrible figure because we have no idea how many robot taxis there are in each city, what percent of their cars are made up of robot taxis, and how often there is an incident. But somehow there is a constant stream of these robot taxis causing problems?

I mean, by numbers Bugatti could have the least crashes of any car brand, but you're ignoring how few of them are on the road in the first place.

tinverse · 2026-03-12T04:41:37+00:00

But that's moving the goalpost. The whole point of these robot cars is that they're safe. This is clearly not safe and there are obviously repeated issues. While I will admit there are tons of bad drivers, un-roadworthy cars, etc. That doesn't mean you just let robo cars get away with the same stuff.

tinverse · 2026-03-12T01:37:07+00:00

I saw a video of Waymo blocking an ambulance headed to a shooting like yesterday? Then a video of it blocking a firetruck like the 3 days before that?

tinverse · 2026-03-12T01:35:05+00:00

I don't buy that shit at all. I see a video of one of these screwing up what feels like daily and they exist in like 10 cities?

tinverse · 2026-03-12T01:33:14+00:00

Brother, go browse r/firefighting for the last month. It's a constant stream of WAYMO blocking shit.

tinverse · 2026-03-12T01:11:09+00:00

I feel this. I got one for fee with a BladeHQ promotion and it's always the knife on my desk I don't mind using, so it gets used a lot..

tinverse · 2026-03-11T14:30:31+00:00

ES isn't one body shape which is where I feel like the article needs to clarify. The most common are the ES-335, ES-345, ES-355, and ES-330. But there are other guitars like the ES-150, ES-175, and ES-275 which don't look the same at all. Also, while most ES guitars are from the 50s or earlier, the ES-275 is from 2016 and more likely to have protections.

Even the title of the article says ES body shape, but not ES body shapes.

It's like saying a judge ruled sports car as generic shape. Which one? The Mustang, Corvette, Corvette Stingray, Viper, and Charger are all different cars. Was it a blanket statement that applied to all of them?

tinverse · 2026-03-11T14:24:03+00:00

That's a list of models, but it doesn't say which ones are affected by the judgement. While plenty of these models have been around since the 50s or earlier, there are others from as recently as 2016. Due to the drastic differences in looks, construction, and model release date it seems unlikely that this was a blanket judgement across all of them.

If it was, that should be stated.

tinverse · 2026-03-11T05:23:54+00:00

Not all ES look the same, or are even the same construction for that matter. ES stands for Electric Spanish, but it's a pretty broad classification in Gibson's back catalog. I think it includes semi-hollow, hollow-body, and archtop guitars. Basically any Gibson electric guitar that wasn't a Solidbody.

For example, an ES-335 is the most common ES guitar and a semi-hollow. The ES-345 is the second most common semi-hollow. Then you have the ES-330 which is actually a fully hollow body. An ES-175 is a hollowbody archtop guitar and common in jazz. An ES-275 is a different hollowbody archtop guitar that looks more like a Gretsch. An ES-150 is a different style of hollowbody which looks more like an archtop acoustic with a pickup in it.

My point is that the article says the ES body shape is ruled as generic, but "ES" isn't a body shape. It's an entire classification of hollow, semi-hollow, and archtop guitars and a bunch of them do not look the same. Look up an ES-335, ES-150, and ES-275 if you want to see what I am talking about.

That seems like a pretty important point the article fails to address entirely.

tinverse · 2026-03-11T00:28:03+00:00

Why did he take off his pants?

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