Just Saying -- the soapbox thread

[davent]

I'm not the only one unable to access DIYSB today, right?

Presently gone again for me.
dave

[EBK]

I'm not the only one unable to access DIYSB today, right?

Presently gone again for me.
dave

Yep. *Sigh*

[thesmokingman]

Granted I'm not going, but I can respect these guys getting a cash grab. They've more or less earned one.

You do realize that this band's whole identity has been anti-establishment, ant-Capitalism... right?

You respect them for doing something that goes against everything they have been preaching for 25+ years?

it's hard to be considered anti-establishment and anti-Capitalism when your net worth is north of 20 million dollars ... each.

[alanp]

it's hard to be considered anti-establishment and anti-Capitalism when your net worth is north of 20 million dollars ... each.

That's what the marketing men get paid their money for

[Muadzin]

Granted I'm not going, but I can respect these guys getting a cash grab. They've more or less earned one.

You do realize that this band's whole identity has been anti-establishment, ant-Capitalism... right?

You respect them for doing something that goes against everything they have been preaching for 25+ years?

it's hard to be considered anti-establishment and anti-Capitalism when your net worth is north of 20 million dollars ... each.

I think that is the trap of any successful progressive. You start out full of anger and piss and vinegar, and then gradually over time you become successful and gather wealth, how do you combine your new found wealth with your activism and not come across as a hypocrite? For starters I reckon it would help not to charge $300 per ticket, or at least not allow ticketmaster to charge $300 per ticket on your behalf. Nor engage in massive tax evasion while asking others to accept shitloads of 3rd world migrants and other costly things, *cough* Bono *cough*.

[alanp]

Nor engage in massive tax evasion while asking others to accept shitloads of 3rd world migrants and other costly things, *cough* Bono *cough*.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/07/tax-bono-harming-world-poorest-glastonbury-avoidance-paradise-papers

U2 have always sounded preachy to me. It's only in the last decade that they started to sound decidedly holier-than-thou.

[alanp]

America: an Old Fashioned: soak a sugar cube in Angostura Bitters, add ice, some bourbon, maybe some lemon peel if you're feeling fawncy.

Japan: that's it? No way is that it.

[thesmokingman]

I got madder the more he messed with it ...

[Aleph Null]

America: an Old Fashioned: soak a sugar cube in Angostura Bitters, add ice, some bourbon, maybe some lemon peel if you're feeling fawncy.

Japan: that's it? No way is that it.

Looks more like a New Fangled than an Old Fashioned! He basically made the bitters fresh, right?

[Muadzin]

Nor engage in massive tax evasion while asking others to accept shitloads of 3rd world migrants and other costly things, *cough* Bono *cough*.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/07/tax-bono-harming-world-poorest-glastonbury-avoidance-paradise-papers

U2 have always sounded preachy to me. It's only in the last decade that they started to sound decidedly holier-than-thou.

You try listening to hundreds of U2 bootlegs and hear Bono preach about Africa. God, I love the music, but there were times that if you had given me a button to nuke Africa I would have pressed it. I wonder how the rest of the band cope with him. I reckon they must agree politically or the band would have broken up decades ago, but still, maybe they've managed to master the art of zen to tune Bono out until he gives the signal to proceed again. Or maybe they're like the Ramones. Where I think the singer was a bleading heart liberal and the guitar player a die hard Republican.

[alanp]

One American mentions it very, very briefly, but I think that Japanese bartending technique and approach comes straight from their traditional tea ceremony, as well as the general Japanese obsessive attention to the most minute details.

[alanp]

https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-51815537

Some nice pictures of the reconstruction of Notre Dame de Paris in this, it's good to see movement.

Also, you will notice several pictures that show wooden frameworks underneath the flying buttresses. As an interesting side-note, this was how the cathedral's stoneworks were probably constructed in the first place, using wooden frameworks to take the stresses and then, once the forces were in equilibrium, the frameworks would have been removed.

These tall cathedrals are a fascinating study in stresses, and how architects and stonemasons can direct them to create these buildings that rival skyscrapers, and were first made not long after the Viking Age. I mean, if you've ever been in a similar style of building, stand at the ground level, and look directly upwards, and appreciate that Notre Dame began construction in 1163 Anno Domini, finished in 1345, and was done entirely by hand.

[alanp]

This video series is a wee bit deceptive... you think that it's a big piss-take, for a laugh, but the thing is... Thug Notes does have some very useful summaries and also analysis.

Kinda like Don Quixote

[midwayfair]

Thug Notes does have some very useful summaries and also analysis.

Kinda like Don Quixote

That was awesome.

It's my favorite novel, and some part of it lives in most novels that've been written since.

[dawson]

What on Earth?

I saw the odd-looking sarcophagus-style pedals and decided to dig a bit deeper into what this brand is/was doing..apparently making space-helmet and monster face-shaped TS-clones, and guitars out of magnesium for reasons unknown.

I'm not too savvy with chemistry- have any of you wizards out there got any idea why magnesium might be a desirable tonewood?