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Goredho

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  1. I wish Billy Duffy was my spirit animal.
  2. Thanks, a used Para might work at my price point. I've got an acoustic gig set up for Friday's Memorial Day through Labor Day, so putting together a minimal pedalboard for it, with Pigtronix Infinity 3 looper, a TC Helicon Mic Mechanic and some pre-amp pedal. Not much room for additional stuff, so ideally the preamp would have a reverb knob but I could perhaps add a mini reverb pedal if the preamp were small enough. The Nux Optima Air has the perfect feature set for me at a pretty cheap price, but I am not sure its worth a shit.
  3. Any recommendations on a pedal-based acoustic guitar preamp? The smaller the better?
  4. https://www.nme.com/news/music/robert-plant-and-david-gilmour-lend-support-to-steve-marriotts-children-in-battle-over-ai-music-with-estate-3755985 Robert Plant and David Gilmour have expressed their support for the children of Steve Marriott, who are currently in a battle with his estate over AI-generated music. The children of the late Humble Pie and Small Faces frontman are currently in a dispute with the singer’s estate to prevent the release of music made by artificial intelligence in his name.
  5. So what says the Surl on 12 strings? Acoustic or electric?
  6. Those duds wouldn't be complete without some Mexican pointy boots.
  7. I guess Joe Theismann will be voting for the good guys.
  8. I want to know about the open season on killing christians. Is there literally no bag limit?
  9. That the 2020 election was not stolen. You asked me how Biden got 80 million votes. Here was my response. So I'll ask you again, on what basis do you believe the 2020 election was stolen? Tell me how you arrived at that informed opinion, because Donald Trump is indicted and will be going on trial for his efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election.
  10. By people being disgusted with Donald Trump. Please tell me how Biden didn't? Are you in Mike Lindell's inner circle and have seen the evidence of voter fraud that cost Donald Trump the election? Because 62 law suits were brought challenging the 2020 election results and there was no evidence presented to substantiate those claims: Nearly all the suits were dismissed or dropped due to lack of evidence or lack of standing,[3] including 30 lawsuits that were dismissed by the judge after a hearing on the merits.[4] Among the judges who dismissed the lawsuits were some appointed by Trump himself.[5] Judges, lawyers, and other observers described the suits as "frivolous"[6] and "without merit".[7][8] In one instance, the Trump campaign and other groups seeking his reelection collectively lost multiple cases in six states on a single day.[9] Only one ruling was initially in Trump's favor: the timing within which first-time Pennsylvania voters must provide proper identification if they wanted to "cure" their ballots. This ruling affected very few votes,[10]and it was later overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.[11] Trump, his attorneys, and his supporters falsely[12] asserted widespread election fraud in public statements, but few such assertions were made in court.[13] Every state except Wisconsin[14] met the December 8 statutory "safe harbor" deadline to resolve disputes and certify voting results. The Trump legal team had said it would not consider this election certification deadline as the expiration date for its litigation of the election results.[15][16][17] Three days after it was filed by Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, the U.S. Supreme Court on December 11 declined to hear a case supported by Trump and his Republican allies asking for electoral votes in four states to be rejected.[18] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related_to_the_2020_U.S._presidential_election So given all that, why do you believe the election was stolen?
  11. Joe Biden is definitely old and sometimes misspeaks. That's true for Trump, too. The cost of living will go down when inflation eases and the fed cuts interest rates, neither of which are under the control of Biden or Trump. I don't see how we had a better world posture with Trump in office. Certainly he weakened ties with our traditional allies. You seem to weigh business experience far more than political experience. Trump is a serial business failure that has declared bankruptcy 6 times. Trump is also morally bankrupt and already attempted to seize control of the country one through violence and intimidation on January 6th, 2020. I have no doubt he'll attempt that or worse again, and if he winds up in the White House, conduct himself as a despot, so you may be right about that civil war.
  12. Ahhhh, the old honey bee bukkake burst.
  13. I find the idea of neural implants offered up by someone with the empathy of Elon plus developments in AI pretty unsettling. Like, I already feel uneasy using AI to be hyper-productive via a keyboard and web browser. I see my company starting to rethink plans of hiring junior engineers because experienced engineers using AI kind of make their contributions unnecessary. I've seen the majority of people in my industry start using AI with zeal. They almost have to. If they don't, their productivity decreases in relation to those that do. That could cost them the promotion, or limit their opportunities if they get laid off. All that is happening today. Well, what if Elon's brain implant gave humans a direct, completely frictionless and fast as thought interface into AI and that resulted in even more hyper productivity? I can guarantee you that if it did, there would be a mad wave of early adopters trying to stay ahead of the curve just like they are now with AI. Health risks wouldn't be much of a factor in their calculus. And their momentum would put pressure on everyone else to get a fucking brain implant or risk becoming a 2nd or 3rd tier worker. In this case, it might not just be an easy choice of fuck no, I wouldn't let a fucking sociopathic capitalist like Elon plug into my brain. It might be a choice of do you let a sociopathic capitalist like Elon plug into your brain, or do you not pay the mortgage, or put food on the table, or whatever else you use your current income for? There's a SciFi movie plot for whoever here writes screenplays.
  14. Reverb says standard Martin D-28's in very good condition are worth $2012-$2299 and it's based on "recent" sales history. That is without shipping, and inclusive of Reverb's 5% cut that a seller is paying. I tend to subtract the 5% if buying outside of Reverb, which would make the range $1911 to $2184. So I think that guitar, if in a very good condition, is probably priced right at the low end of its worth. If it were me, I'd go play it and if blows you away, don't leave without it. If it doesn't blow you away, I'd make a low-ball offer that gives you a built in resale profit margin and if they take it great, if not, return to lusting over Hummingbird's. I put recent in quotes, because there are usually much fewer sales of high ticket items and the small sample size can make their range iffy. That said, there have been 7 sold on Reverb in very good condition over the last year and the price ranged from $1995 to $2690. The cheapest available on Reverb right now is $2199 + $100 shipping. You can check out their price guide here https://reverb.com/p/martin-d-28#price-guide.
  15. I'd glaze Nikki Glaser's donut. The rest was pretty damn meh.
  16. Yep, mahogany back/sides and sitka spruce top. I'll let you know if I decide its not for me and why. You'd get the price I got, which was muy bueno.
  17. Spot on. Some people are feeling pain due to inflation and/or resultant interest rate hikes, but I don't think it has anything to do with who has been in the Whitehouse. Where I think this is different than previous fed actions that affected Carter or Bush Sr is that I think the fed held off on rate hikes much longer than they would have ordinarily because we were in the middle of a pandemic and a global response to it that was impacting the economy in unprecedented and unpredictable ways.
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