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Goredho

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  1. This is Beato's strong suit. Whatever shortcomings he has, he has enough knowledge, experience and enthusiasm to be a pretty good proxy interviewer for his following of musicians. Like, what guitarist wouldn't want to seriously geek out with Gilmour about how all those great sounds came about and were captured? Beato gives musicians the vicarious ability to talk shop with and pick the brain of the greats they never would have access to. I can appreciate that, even if I still have never made it through one of his videos, lol.
  2. I'd be curious how bandcamp works for you and what you do that might/might not work to get traffic there.
  3. Happy to support you guys when I get home.
  4. I have yet to finish let alone pay for a Rick Beato video. And I didn't need another influencer to keep me from it! Also, you really watched all 34 minutes of that? Fuck you, Dogs is worse than the worst song on Division Bell. Fight me!
  5. Lol, keep sucking on NoMad's epeen, loyal subscriber.
  6. I mean, if you enjoy influencer B attacking the more popular influencer A as infotainment for 34 minutes of your day, by all means, consume away. I just see it as both these dudes are trying to build a brand and following that they can profiteer from — whether they are paid directly by their audience or by advertisers looking to reach their audience. I say fuck em both. If $100 is so vast an amount of money that you have to legitimately forego groceries for the week after giving it to Rick Beato as influencer B uses to position his criticisms, holy shit, you shouldn’t be spending any time or money on either of these dudes. You should be spending it with Dave Ramsey to teach you how not to be a dumbass with money. And if you do have $100 to spend on improving your ability with a guitar, go pay for 2-4 private lessons with a local musician better than you. You’ll learn more, develop a connection if not a friend and help a local musician make a buck from their musical knowledge.
  7. Influencer diss tracks are weird.
  8. Nicole is franchising
  9. Sometimes the simulation entertains.
  10. No comment necessary. While more Americans have negative than positive views of both the Democratic and Republican parties, net favorability is higher for the Republican Party than for the Democratic Party (-17 vs. -26) Republican Party favorability has been higher than the Democratic Party's since soon after the 2024 election; for the seven years before then, the Democratic Party generally was viewed more favorably than the Republican Party https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/52988-donald-trump-job-approval-presidential-attributes-charlie-kirk-shooting-political-violence-political-parties-democratic-party-republican-party-jeffrey-epstein-immigration-september-12-15-2025-economist-yougov-poll
  11. Like multiplayer QWOP.
  12. If by ā€œpeopleā€ you mean all people inclusive of yourself and who you vote for, then I have no quibble with your post. I agree that violence begins when discussion ends, and I’d go further to say discussion ends when one party to the discussion simply wants to discuss the failures of the other (or if both parties only want to discuss the failures of the other, as the case may be).
  13. I think we all need to acknowledge and realize people all across the political spectrum are being radicalized and moved to action. A context has been established to where Americans are feeling abject terror from and seething anger towards fellow Americans, and Charlie Kirk’s death and this shooter’s ruined life are but the latest ramifications of that. They won’t be the last. We the people need to quit tuning into, liking, sharing and electing the architects of this context. It’s not limited to a side, because both sides are telling the truth about each other and lying about themselves — to themselves. Turn off the news, unsubscribe from those podcasts, shut down social media, get off the Internet (including Surly). Focus on connecting with and being kind to others in your proximal life — especially if they are different than you. If you want to change the world for the better, start there. It’s easier said than done, and I say it knowing I have been an imperfect adherent if not outright hypocrite in the past. But I’m trying.
  14. Goredho

    Led Zeppelin

    Gonna just put this right here…
  15. Well, he's cooked regardless. I mean, there is no way this goes unpunished with the death penalty. The only real question is going to be, does the retribution stop at the murderer directly responsible for Charlie Kirk's death?
  16. I dunno, I think that is Nicole's sock account.
  17. Only other notable thing about Magna is this that Kennecott mining had knowledge that its mine tailing impoundments could fail, flood the city and kill/harm a lot of folks and covered it up. It's a shit hole. Or at least was in 2007-2008 when I lived in SLC. http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=8667373&itype=NGPSID
  18. Magna, UT is essentially a suburb of Salt Lake City, for whatever that is worth. Magna is to SLC as Liberty Hill is to Austin, for instance. Vestiges of being its own entity, but the city has started to absorb it.
  19. Final mastered version of that last track after a final round of mix tweaks in case anyone wants to hear it. @sidis was kind enough to do the mastering for me.
  20. I don't disagree, but this message from Talarico: Is essentially saying "I want to reconcile with my countrymen who I might disagree with politically so we can find a path forward together" But it's coming from a Democratic Party member in a deeply red state, and Democrats are at their lowest point of appeal, power and influence in my lifetime. So it seems pretty disingenuous and self serving coming from a member of the party that is, from what I can tell, on life support while the other party has a hand on the power cord. Add into that the decades of conditioning that all things left, liberal and with a D attached to it are evil, and Talarico the Democrat isn't going to pull any meaningful number of voters from the right with that message at this stage of our devolution. For that idea to be embraceable by people who have been voting right, it's going to have to come from someone not on the left. And for that idea to be embraceable by people who have been voting left, it's going to have to come from someone not on the right. Maybe someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger (Republican, demonstrably not MAGA) could form a new party around that idea and get people to buy into it. But, I dunno.
  21. @NowThis is funny.
  22. Knowing the prevailing mindset here, and the prevailing mindset among conservatives that I know, I just think the opposing party is dead to these people. I don’t think there is anything that can be said or done to convince them otherwise. These people see an R or D and their decision is effectively made, and little else matters. I think Talarico’s message would need to come from an independent, or perhaps a new party founded by people who are eschewing both parties. If he could find a like mind from the Republican Party and get some monied people behind them, start a new party focused on de-escalation, unity, preserving the Republic and populist economics. That might pull a decent number of people from both parties that currently have been essentially forced to choose between two warring factions. The problem when people make their decision between R or D right now, they fall into an information bubble provided by that side that has more to do with motivating them to join the fight than it has with promoting any sort of common ground. You are presented with the best of ā€œyourā€ side and the worst of the ā€œotherā€ side. And outside forces (Russia, others) contribute their weight to ensuring that half the people view the other half as a mortal threat and vice versa. I fully know one or both parties would be trying to undermine these efforts of a new, upstart party and it very well might fail. But the alternative is a continuation of current trends, which likely means the extinction of the Democratic Party and 20th century liberalism. It might mean worse than that.
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