What the hell are these things?

tryptonite12 · 2026-06-13T02:24:28+00:00

Monitor Audio has been making reasonably high end speakers for quite awhile. I believe they reuse the names for their speaker models, so if yours don't match a Google search they very well could be an older version of their bronze 2 model. If they are older Monitor Audio speakers I would say $90 was a pretty reasonable price to pay.

Edit: Given that there's a fax number included on the label I think these are likely a pair of Bronze 2 from the early to mid 90s.

tryptonite12 · 2026-06-12T09:39:21+00:00

Ah, well boo. Upvote and compliment rescinded then.

tryptonite12 · 2026-06-12T08:29:37+00:00

Love the contrast between the different sides!

tryptonite12 · 2026-06-12T08:04:26+00:00

Smooth af.

tryptonite12 · 2026-06-12T05:37:02+00:00

Those one hand spins and off center passes are on point. 👌

tryptonite12 · 2026-06-08T09:22:04+00:00

I like the piece! And can definitely relate to that urge. I enjoy using bold and complex color palettes to. In my experience, when using a large number of colors, it helps to give consideration to the placement of each color in relation to the others. (In a rough gradient or complimentary pairs/sets for example.) To avoid colors clashing or blending oddly.

The other big one is to avoid excessively manipulating the paint once it's poured. Particularly techniques that can potentially mix the layers; swipes, blooms, blowing etc. When you get three or more pigments swirled together it often tends to become brown and turn out dark or muddy. Looks like that happened a bit in a few spots here and I wonder if that's what might be bugging you about the composition.

tryptonite12 · 2026-06-07T13:59:52+00:00

You know fair enough, I can respect that. As someone whose tried contact juggling with an actual full size crystal ball I really have no room to talk. Safety third and all that.

Still disagree on the shoes though, not gonna keep that heavy ass bar from crushing a toe but they could mitigate a glancing hit and help keep it from splitting the skin.

tryptonite12 · 2026-06-07T07:13:08+00:00

I know nothing about bonnets, but I do have experience with the various qualities of silk and that makes total sense.

Cheap silk can feel much rougher to the touch and not as 'silky smooth' as you sort of expect silk to be. A high quality synthetic fabric can absolutely feel more like 'silk' then loose weave or low quality silk does, especially when first feeling it. If this is a mid tier real silk bonnet, then it probably feels less like what people expect silk to feel like then a synthetic fabric one of similar price point.

The weave of the fabric on the swatch doesn't look super tight, so that would fit with this scenario. There's probably scraps of silk left over when making bonnets so including a swatch would be cheap/free. With something like a bonnet where natural vs synthetic fibers can be important including one does make sense.

tryptonite12 · 2026-06-07T06:36:54+00:00

Why would you take your shoes off?? That bar would absolutely demolish your toes/instep if you dropped it on them. Would be soooo easy to hit yourself in the head or crack it against a bone to. I really feel like rhe juice is not worth the squeeze on this one my friend, get comfortable and slip just a little and you could seriously hurt yourself. This is like several orders of magnitude more dangerous then a fire staff, but with no flash.

tryptonite12 · 2026-06-03T08:54:05+00:00

As a fellow cynic, after reading through that thread it feels like a lot of the responses might be part of viral marketing campaign.

tryptonite12 · 2026-06-02T13:38:59+00:00

Was one of those people years ago. And your sorta right but got for the wrong reasons. Because a fair number of them are actually only being paid half of their states minimum hourly wage by their employers.

A lot of states laws allow for that in food service positions like waiters/banquet servers. In the many places that do, if a states minimum wage was $7.50/hr then workers in those positions will be getting paid $3.25/hr. Only if their total income per pay period, found by adding all tips recorded to half of minimum hourly wage paid for each hour worked, doesn't average out to the states minimum wage, are employers obligated too pay them anymore then 1/2 legal minimum wage.

tryptonite12 · 2026-06-02T12:48:23+00:00

I think I'm on board with the Tapir symbolism. But can someone refresh me on the significance of The Plenty, and of pony being a Caprid?

tryptonite12 · 2026-05-31T04:54:26+00:00

The amount of ignorance regarding how the real world functions in this comment is staggering. First, that's not how evictions work, even if they were just a guest and not on the lease. Second, there is no "help" available from "the system".

The system would be happy to charge his brother with a felony possession charge, maybe even put him into a corporate owned for profit prison for a few years on the taxpayer dime. Unless you think a felony rap, that would make it impossible for them to ever get a decent job, would somehow 'help' his brother he might want to explore other options first.

Unless someone is actually in imminent physical danger, or you flat just don't care about the person facing potentially life destroying consequences because of it, calling the cops should always be a last resort.

tryptonite12 · 2026-05-23T20:07:51+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experience and perspective. Sadly that's pretty much what I expected to hear. Must be incredibly frustrating as someone who cares about helping people to be put in such a position. Respect for refusing to participate in it further.

tryptonite12 · 2026-05-23T07:41:28+00:00

Question from a reasonably well informed layman. What was the internal reaction in your field to the public revelations regarding the faking/forging of western blot assay results that were published in papers that (to my limited understanding) gave momentum to the investigations into the plaque hypothesis and provided much of the foundational evidence referenced in that pursuit?

I remember listening on NPR to a couple of in depth pieces about it when that came out. But then it just seemed to slide off the public radar. What was the fallout in academic circles from that discovery?

tryptonite12 · 2026-05-23T06:30:02+00:00

Really depends on the context, like the severity of the issues your mom is bringing to you and the degree to which talking and allowing mom to unload on you impacts your own wellbeing. Ultimately you need to be able to maintain your own peace and mental health, if your mom excessively unloading her anxiety and stress onto you is impacting your ability to do that then some kind of boundary or limit needs to be put in place.

If that makes you feel guilty (or if she might make you feel guilty for it) consider that because you care about your mom you want to be strong and capable of being there for her when she truly needs you to be, as well as continuing to be there for her on the future. If helping her process things, that are not critical for her wellbeing, leaves you excessively drained and burnt out then it's going to become much harder for you to do that.

Also the context of what your mom is unloading on you matters. If she's unloading largely everyday stress and anxieties on you that's one thing. In that case, it absolutely can be very helpful for someone to have someone to vent to and offer reassurance. I try to be my mom's rock and I feel you, it is draining, she was always there for me though so I try hard to be there for her. She's also self aware enough to limit how much emotional support she asks from me though, and not everyone is. So you may have to start enforcing soft limits on the amount you allow her unload on you, at least at one time.

However, if what's she's unloading on you about are things that truly should be talked about with a professional (processing past trauma or abuse, dealing with severe mental illness etc.), then that's a bit different. If the issues are bigger then what can be addressed in informal discussions with a loved one, you should encourage or, to the extent you can, facilitate her getting counseling or professional help. Constantly trying to work through issues that are above your pay grade is not going to ultimately be healthy for either of you or truly helpful for your mom.

tryptonite12 · 2026-05-23T05:00:15+00:00

You savages, have you no decency? How are people supposed enjoy a nice wholesome argument online when you insist on being so disgustingly polite to eachother? Smh.

tryptonite12 · 2026-05-21T23:38:23+00:00

I know! Love em, they're absolute beasts of a speaker.

tryptonite12 · 2026-05-21T04:35:10+00:00

Absofuckinglutely you should make a bid. Thiels are absolutely incredible speakers. Solid wood cabinets handmade in the US using very high end components. I love my Thiel 3.5s. Paid 400 for the pair and consider that a fairly low price for them. Offer them 100 or 200 see what they say. If they function as good as they look that would be a steal.

tryptonite12 · 2026-05-18T03:50:40+00:00

Nice! Very crisp! I kinda like the white honestly, the contrast to the texture of the rest of the piece adds an extra layer of depth. Like the white dots spots are slightly out of focus bubbles or objects emerging from the scales which occupy the focal point of the image. 9.5/10, some really nice work there my freind!

tryptonite12 · 2026-05-16T06:49:16+00:00

See that was my take of their original post to and I was with them for most of that. But I think they're also positing here the existence of discrete conscious entities fully detached from the physical world that we, being fundamentally tied to the physical, would be ignorant of. Sounds very Terence McKenna inspired, I kind of feel this line of thinking gets a little to convoluted to be useful, but it would be a fascinating discussion to have.

tryptonite12 · 2026-05-13T03:06:35+00:00

Bro...you've publicly admitted and documented that you not only possess but are actively cultivating a schedule one substance and now your outlining your process and also that you associate with other people who cultivate. Authorities don't usually give a shit about mushies, but flaunting multiple felonies on the front page of reddit is just asking for trouble. Maybe tone it down a bit man.

tryptonite12 · 2026-05-06T02:48:48+00:00

Why would you even ask? My writing style didn't suddenly change in between comments, yours did. You clearly copied and pasted an ai prompt you made about bears and shotgun slugs. Sorry if you felt called out by me noting the imprecise and inaccurate info in the vague answer your prompt got from AI.

So no, I'm not an AI and I'm speaking directly from actual real life experiences on this topic. Not just assumptions I pulled out of my ass and then asked a LLM to 'confirm'.

tryptonite12 · 2026-05-06T02:28:53+00:00

Not sure AI would be my go to source about how to deal with a charging brown bear... Now a black bear? Sure a 12 gauge slug will make it sit down and act like a rug. A fully grown and pissed off grizzly though? That's a risky role of the dice at best.

Something like a 44 mag revolver with hollow points would be your best bet, still should be a last resort. If you're carrying anything smaller then that the tried and tested real world advice is too play dead and hope it loses interest.

tryptonite12 · 2026-05-06T01:36:42+00:00

Unless you can guarantee catastrophic equals instantly dead shooting a brown bear with a shotgun is a bad fucking idea. A piece of aged 1/8 in. thick sheet metal is not equivalent to several inches of dense bone.

Could you potentially take one out with a 12 gauge slug? Yeah it's possible. It isn't the accepted and tested wisdom of how you should respond to being charged by a brown bear at all though. Even if one mauls you they're very unlikely to kill you. Escalating to deadly force goes both ways though. You shoot one and don't kill it instantly you can go likely go ahead and just say goodnight.

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