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Goredho

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  1. Needs "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees playing for that walk.
  2. Hypothetically, what does selling gold look like? Like if someone had some American eagle gold coins, and wanted to convert say 10 of them to cash to finish paying off a mortgage, how would they go about it in a safe and tax-friendly way?
  3. But gaze upon the crypto gains as people flee the USD! #WINNING.
  4. Assuming you mean vintage in terms of spec vs truly something like a legit '50s tele, these are the ones I've liked the best in no particular order. Late 80s AVRIs (sorta vintage spec, made in the USA, somewhat collectable today at custom shop prices) Early 90s Time Machine series (The start of the custom shop guitars at Fender, sorta vintage spec, made in the USA, don't show up often, custom shop prices) 90s/00s American Vintage series (standard grade but vintage specced, often moreso than the AVRI and Time Machines, made in the USA, normal used prices) Custom shop year-targeted reissues from 2000 to present (custom shop grade, most true to vintage spec, made in the USA, custom shop prices) Basically I am seconding what @jimmyjazz said. Late 80s/90s eras fenders in those lines have been my favorite as far as vintage-style reissue guitars. Imo, its hard to beat a 90s American Vintage at $1200-$1500. I don't have much experience with the newer vintera or road worn lines which I believe also target a vintage look and feel if not exacting adherence to vintage specs.
  5. Yeah, this Tele was a perfectly good player. I don’t think I’ve played a Fender American Pro or equivalent “standard” grade USA Tele that was better at probably double the price or more used. I briefly considered buying it, but I’ve got a lifetime Tele already.
  6. I picked up a PA at a GC today and they had a used Sire Larry Carlton Tele knock off. Really nice for the $500 price tag. Seems like they would make a great gigging guitar - sounded good, played good, relatively cheap and relatively painless if it were to take a fall or leave with someone else. Aren’t some of ya’ll fans? I can see why.
  7. I don't care if you are white, brown, black, or chartreuse. If you are a Christian, a Muslim, Atheist or Christian Scientist. If you are turned on by men, women, or all of the above. If you were born in the US or came her from a foreign country. If you have a family and make less than $200K a year as a household and have less than a $1 million net worth, you have a hell of a lot more in common with everyone else I mentioned than you do with Donald Trump or Elon Musk. You are falling behind while the rich get richer You are a few paychecks or one medical emergency away from financial catastrophe Your kids are being poorly educated by a crumbling public education system You have relatively less than your parents did at your age Your children will have relatively less than you do at your age You have fewer opportunities to make a comfortable living than your parents did Your kids will have fewer opportunities to make a comfortable living than you do If democrats are to ever be relevant again, they need to start there and fucking stay there. You want to know how many voters that is? 88% of U.S. households make less than $200K a year and have less than a $1 million net worth. If Dems simply stick to a platform that puts their economics first, second and third and quit taking the culture war bait from Republicans, they win. Bigly.
  8. Elaborate. If you are trying to make this story disappear, you are doing a piss poor job of it 😜
  9. The Quilters is a good redemption documentary. A group of dudes in prison atoning for their sins by making quilts for foster kids. It’s short.
  10. Sidis needs to add a gold top and you need to add a white custom.
  11. He’s got a game best suited for 7 on 7 drills.
  12. A murderer's row of "huh? who?"
  13. Don Beebe says, "Mars is that away."
  14. I think you mean the Kingdom of Americoff, nerd.
  15. I have no idea how significant this may be, but the 20% disparity between our level of tariffs and china's level of tariffs is proportionally bigger at 30/10 than it is at 145/125. I am sorta surprised that is not being used by the admin as evidence that "we won this negotiation." That makes me think both parties realized de-escalation was needed quickly and that we are ready to mostly turn the page. At least the news page. There's no end zone dancing in the face of a vanquished opponent going on here regarding the tariff deal with China. POTUS is just talking about tariffs on movies, cutting prescription drug prices and the release of Edan Alexander by Hamas.
  16. Its not that surprising to me, honestly. ChatGPT's AI is really good at doing its job -- which is at least partially to keep users engaged and talking while it builds a model of who they are. There's a segment of the population who may have underlying psychological traits such that the most effective way to keep them engaged is for the LLM to say, "You are the one, Neo." As these people are drawn in to the psychological reality that is being built through conversations with AI, they start neglecting and rejecting important relationships in their life. So the AI winds up providing proportionally more and more of their connection to something other than self over time. It would be a feedback loop of delusional fantasy. The only thing that exists to prevent that are heuristics (i.e. programmed guardrails) applied on top of the AI to prevent the AI from going there, and such systems can have bugs, potentially be hacked or even just be inadequate in their design. A not insignificant number of people would see Jesus Christ in this piece of toast. I am sure a not insignificant number of people could easily see Jesus in the LLM they are engaged with. The Chat of Turin.
  17. I don’t know that it’s gonna matter. People are very ready to have clarity, there will be an economic bounce even if things are a net negative as far as trade goes.
  18. Well, it either means he’s about to significantly reduce tariffs while declaring complete victory and China’s unconditional economic surrender or your various investment accounts now have a value of…
  19. Reverends are as good as any guitar you can buy when you get it set up. I love mine.
  20. Shouldn't this all be in the enshitification thread?
  21. Greg Koch is playing at Saxon Pub Saturday in ATX. You Austin people should go see him. He's a hell of a player that puts on a hell of a show. This is from a few days ago at the Dallas Guitar Show.
  22. Bet. Now pay up. This was the before photo of the 3 day Carnival Cruise, to the Bahamas, that was about to board her.
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