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The best guitar-purchasing advise I ever got was: Never buy your dream guitar because you'll never feel like you're good enough to play it.

I read it, and I don't agree that he explained why Helix sucked. Unless I'm reading it wrong, he seems to think a voice-controlled rig would be better for live performance?

I understand that the tone of these user's comments might be rubbing people wrong, but the criticisms were absolutely spot-on (including the one that got flagged/removed). As a DIY project, I think it's awesome...but as a product being brought to (a heavily saturated, well-trod) market it deserves criticism/skepticism.

They also charge you a monthly fee for using their modem.

Those are called "water wings" in the US and the person you were replying to feels quite the opposite about their safety; the ones I've seen available for purchase in the states are easy to dislodge accidentally.

Catalytic converters

I live in Chicago and concealed carry permits aren't difficult to procure, they're issued by the state of Illinois.

I don't think it implies that all men do this at all. It also seems like a much more palatable expression/term than "dick-measuring contest".

It sounds to me like your idea of empathy is more akin to compassion.

I personally wouldn't say you "had it coming" or "deserved it", but there is an extremely high likelihood that a person attuned to cat behavior observing your interactions with this particular cat would not being surprised by the reaction.

You used to be able to hear people breathing on the other end. VoIP has eliminated the intimacy of calls.

It's worse than you realize: a single pizza box can contaminate an entire bale of (otherwise recyclable) cardboard.

I'm not a student of military history but these all seem disparate examples that don't support the point that you're trying to make. Are you trying to say something about the nature of the US Military's (in)ability to hold territory or making a point about foreign occupations?

It causes a division, sure...but it's not divisive.

...Because (per the conspiracy) the manufacturers of cars knew that busses were unpleasant to ride in (compared to trolley cars) and that most people would prefer to own a car over riding in one.

'JHS Pedals', 'shnobel', 'JLeonardJ', and 'Mike Hermans' all have great content about guitar pedals, effects, etc.

[Note: Even if you're not a guitarist, JHS's "The First Guitar Effects Ever" is an interesting watch.]

Due to Amazon's co-mingling of products, even if you buy from a reputable seller you might still get a counterfeit.

I've heard a lot of parents say something along those lines, though usually softened a bit: "I love my kids but if I had to do it all over again I wouldn't have had them."

If someone orients their speakers in an aesthetically-pleasing-but-sub-optimal-for-hearing manner, then it's difficult to argue that they have an "ardent interest" in high-fidelity sound replication.

I think the rapid mental and physical decline in your twilight years dissuades most people from wanting to live much longer than that, not some inane moral compulsion to live within our "rightful" lifespan.

> I wonder how the US society has "forgotten" this practice.

Two working parents and non-multi-generational homes.

You should consider using a trivet to keep your chicken off the bottom of the dutch oven/where the temperatures are more consistent.

I have a Garmin that's over five years old and it gives me real-time traffic updates reliably.

Head shop I used to go to in the mid-90s kept their "water pipes" in a locked back room. You couldn't even buy one unless they'd deemed you "hip to it, man" or whatever.

I don't think most vinyl collections have much value. Sales are up for newly-pressed vinyl but that doesn't mean a cheap mass market pressing of 'Sgt Peppers' that's been stored on its side in a damp basement for several decades is suddenly valuable.

Parent brought up A/B, the person you're responding to asked if it was blinded. Doesn't seem like the affront you're making it out to be, it's an innocuous follow-up question.

You don't. Your hands never come into contact with your anus or fecal matter.

I've had friends react negatively to my bidet. I ask them, "If you needed to clean dog poop off pavement, would you rather grab paper towels or a power washer?"

Look into ICL...more expensive but reversible (among other advantages).

>I want to live a middle class life while making music. Sounds realistic?

Not even remotely. These days the arts are for trust fund kids or risk-takers, not those aspiring to be middle class.

This is reductive and uninformed.

I grew up in a house where a sibling played brass but (though I did play an instrument) I lacked any sort of "classical" training. I never much enjoyed symphonies but strangely enough did enjoy (parts of) the ones that I'd heard my sister practicing because it was interesting to hear everything else fill in around it and finally appreciate the context.