@sentientdessert

Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Carry a towel.

Winter NAMM 2025 is January 21-25 in Carlsbad, CA.

Talk about politics crapping on us right before a time of joy.

@Windyla77 Trump will pardon them, probably.

Glitch in the system.

I feel like an idiot looking for houses in US Virgin Islands or Guam just hoping to get away from politics.

@CanisPundit @northernbassist @Bix

Note: The best thing I can say about my Les Paul is it sounds like a Les Paul, more or less. It's OK. Takes a bit of getting used to after playing my other guitars because of the closer string spacing, but that's to be expected. I've thought about pickup and bridge upgrades, so so far, stock. Action is low.

@CanisPundit @northernbassist @Bix

Meh,

My guitar with the most sustain is a Parker Fly Deluxe, and the secret is whe graphite reinforced neck and the bridge.

#2 would be my late 80s ESP M-II with a Floyd Rose System.

My Les Paul cannot compare. It's no better than my MIM strat which at least doesn't have one of those knife-edge tune-o-matic bridges.

@northernbassist @CanisPundit @Bix

I don't get it either, and that neck angle will put more string tension on the nut, and thus more friction, and that is antithetical to tuning stability, not to mention wear on the nut.

@Coffee_and_Salt

I'm not having a tantrum. Waste of energy. I need a new plan, though.

@Liliki @JV3MJD

No, he didn't. The DoJ was investigating and all potential witnesses in the DoJ were cleared to testify, no priviledge was asserted over their testimony while the investigation proceded.

But then Trump declared he was running for President in 2022, so Garland appointed a Special Prosecutor to remove the possible appearance that the Administration was going after a candidate. And even the appointment of Smith was less than 2 years in.

@JV3MJD

The extra-judicial (and thus no appeals, no motions, and fast) remedy to a corrupt President is impeachment.

The judical system and prosecutors didn't fail with the exception of judge Cannon in Florida.

The majority Republican Senate failed us.

It is what it is.

@JV3MJD Our court system is just slow as molasses against a defendant who can afford to hire attorneys to file a plethora of motions, appeals, etc.

Trump has been running out the clock against him in civil cases for decades. He learned that from Roy Cohn,

You can't blame the prosecutors, most of whom are highly competent but bound to follow the law.

This may have been to easy for folks 50 and over lol

1970's Quiz

You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger

And you don't ... (do what? That's the quesion)

WSJ: Trump Team Proposes 20-Year Freeze on Ukraine’s NATO Bid in Exchange for Peace

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Hmmm? Ukraine had pledged not to join NATO and NATO said Ukraine could not join NATO before both invasions. How did that work out?

@TheresaVermont

I know, but it's not exactly new for him to crtiticise Democrats.

He's like the Democrats' crotchety old grandpa who's always sayin' "you kids these days don't know nuthin' ".

But probably a good idea to remind him that his attempt to raise his media profile by doing that misses a bigger point. Actually, it misses many bigger points.

@TheresaVermont

But that's his thing. Save your disappointment for those who should know better.

@YouInMyEye It's a waste of time mostly: False right-wing narratives, Democrats finger-pointing utter bullshit.

Just keep track of remaining House races. The rest is noise.

@th3j35t3r

Next you'll tell me this is obsolete too.

October 9

The thing we all missed (because we know how things work):

The current 52% of voters rating the economy as an “extremely important” influence on their vote for president is the highest since October 2008 during the Great Recession, when 55% of voters said the same. In polls conducted closest to the election in other presidential election years since 1996.

@northernbassist I need to get on that progran