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I got distracted and forgot the game was on. Now I'm wishing I had remained distracted.

Wall hangers arrived today. Son helped me hang em up. Bass is a little close to the wall and the spacing ain't 100% even -- couldn't be, with the limited space and different widths. From left to right... 1984 Peavey Combo 300 (floor) 1994(?) Ibanez SDGR SR400FL 1960s Sorrento 17th century cello, English (foreground) 2024 Yamaha Pacifica 012 DLX 1989 Ensoniq VFXsd literally every one of these is made in the least cool country possible for each in their era, lol

Yeah, that's more or less what I'm pointing out -- it's not the Internet itself that's bad, and it's not that the Internet is exposing things that were already there. Social media and Internet porn are DEFINITELY doing something new, twisting minds in ways they'd never been twisted before.

No, social media and porn sites really ARE doing things, beyond exposing what was already there.

You know what the day after Taco Tuesday is?

Yeah. Half the reason I bought the guitar was just so I could try out the Softube Marshall Silver Jubilee 2555 VST that came for free with it (along with a dozen other freebiesI haven't yet bothered with). Of course then I discovered the amp sims that came with Zenology FX (including a 5150 and a Marshall 1959) and I've barely touched that one since. But what really blew me away was the quality of the preamps the 4th edition has. The 4th edition, among other things, has the same preamps Focusrite's rack mount studio gear uses... including the headphone preamp. It's so much better what the cheap Presonus has...

Apparently you can draw a lot of connections between his character in this movie and his character in Three Days of the Condor

The sad thing about all of Mother's quotes is that I think Aykroyd actually believes a lot of them.

oh hey! I recognize the little blue Presonus there! Finally ditched mine because of the lack of driver support... couldn't get latency below 10ms, and even getting down to 10ms required some real sacrifices to the point I couldn't get anything working. Replaced it with the Focusrite 4i4 4th gen and haven't been happier. It's new enough that there are still some bugs, but all in all it's sooooooo much better.

The man who folded this tube of Crest is looking for someone meticulous. Refined. ...Anal. ... What?

Both. What they are NOT doing is offering them for sale for people to own. Oh, the China approach. Let's ... NOT do that. Let me count the ways this can and will fail: First off, real estate is, and always has been, and always will be, an investment, whether it's your own home or otherwise. Corollary: This is why HOAs become such shit storms of petty politics. ask me how I know Trying to build more homes means building homes further and further away from where people want to be. Corollary: In places where people want to be, increasing capacity is a political nightmare. ask me how I know Even when you succeed in building new homes, corporations/investors will out-bid actual homebuyers. Your problem is no longer solved. 100% of the housing crisis in America is attributable to this. You get rid of the institutional investors -- force them all to sell at market rates -- and suddenly, Millennials and Z's can afford homes.

Wow. I stepped away from this thread because I was expecting idiotic responses, but y'all disappointed me even more than I thought was possible. Look at you two! Attacking claims I never made! Completely failing to understand basics! You shame the fine educational institution we attended. Yes, @Captainant, I was talking about how things should be, not how they are. That said, your grasp of how things are is ... incredibly ignorant. No, @Wally Fairway, corporate ownership and private ownership for rentals are two completely different things. A private owner can choose to live in their rental property; a corporate owner cannot, because it is not a person (no matter what SCOTUS said).

Matt Gaetz is terrible at blackjack.

yes one notable exception

but... they're... coming with us to the SEC...

Helo'd

You mean, other than the fact that OU won something.

that was not the 8th inning i wanted to see

don't be fatuous, jeevsie