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BarneyPiccolo

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  • What are things that bring you joy?

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  • My secret was to play for 20 minutes in the morning when I first got up, 20 at night before going to bed, and 20 minutes somewhere during the day. That gives you 60 minutes a day.

    You're really only focused for about 20 minutes anyway, so after that youre basically wasting your time anyway. Better to get three focused sessions per day, than one long one where you weren't really concentrating for most of it. And if you miss a short session, you only miss a little, you don't skip an entire day.

    Force yourself to do that for 2-3 weeks, and it will become a positive habit that will feel weird if you skip it. Hopefully, you are so motivated to go on your musical journey that you won't need to convince yourself too much, but it also helps that your progress will be so fast that it will become self-motivating.

    Eventually, I got away from that schedule, because I was playing a lot more than that per day anyway. I've became a bit obsessed.

    3 x 20 min per day. That's what I did, and I was shocked at how quickly I progressed.

  • Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform

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  • Facebook marketplace, eBay, pawn shops. You just have to be patient, and wait for the right deal. It won't take long, musicians are notorious for buying gear that they never, or barely, use. They are also notorious for needing money, and dumping their old gear.

    BTW, pawn shops used to be great for buying guitars and other musical instruments, but that's passed. Now they put the good stuff on eBay, and the stuff in the stores is the junk that nobody would bite on. OTOH, you can still find good deals on other gear like recorders, interfaces, microphones, etc. I got a nice Focusrite Scarlett interface at a pawn shop for about $20, and it looked brand-new. I've used it every day, and never had a problem.

    I just got a Boss BR-600 digital recorder, which has a built in drum machine, and a LOT of guitar pedal and amp effects, including a bass simulator that makes my guitar sound like a bass. It even has a pair of condenser mics built in. So I can literally record as if I'm an entire band. It's also really thin, and smaller than a laptop, so it will fit in the pocket of my gig bag. It looked brand-new, and it only cost me $56, with the case, and the original price was $399. It's so ridiculously cool, and it's become my new favorite piece of gear, other than my guitars.

    Now I can lay down a drum track, play a rhythm guitar part along to it, add a bass line, mix it all down to single stereo track, put it on a loop, and play some screaming lead guitar over it for as long as I want. What a blast!

  • 65 year old woman calls in and nearly breaks CSPAN host by telling her she’s slowly starving to death..

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  • It was a sad story, but I didn't see any indication that the host was close to "breaking." She really didn't have much reaction at all.

  • Do you still have faith in humanity?

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  • "Still?"

    Never did. Still don't.

  • James Talarico beating Jasmine Crockett in Texas Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, poll shows

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  • I have an instinctual dislike for any candidate that is an enthusiastic religion freak. I also like Crockett a lot. So it seems like my choice would be easy, but it isn't.

    Democrats have been getting closer and closer to winning with every Senate election. Republicans used to win by double digits, now they are barely winning by very small margins. Beto O'Rourke probably could have won, if he hadn't stupidly gone on the radio, and arrogantly declared that he would take their guns. In Texas. He might as well have taken one of those guns and shot himself. I wasn't shocked he lost after that, I expected a blow out loss, but I didn't expect how close he would still come.

    If Beto could get that close after announcing his gun confiscation dreams, then a proper candidate could probably win it. So in TEXAS, which candidate can realistically flip that seat, the white preacher, or the loud black lady?

    Viewed through the lens of the average Texas voter, the choice seems obvious.

  • James Talarico beating Jasmine Crockett in Texas Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, poll shows

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  • Just saw another poll yesterday, giving Crockett a double digit lead. You can't trust polls, you have to vote.

  • Apologies if I'm making an incorrect judgement, but does anybody else get dystopian propaganda vibes from the Working with Cancer Pledge?

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  • You grow up, pay attention I'm school, get a college degree, maybe a masters, just so you can make a lot of money as a Professional Turd Polisher.

    That should be on their business card.

  • Simple analogy

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  • If a man has a woman for a friend, is he really a man?

  • It keeps happening.

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  • This guy isn't even a billionaire, because his Squatty Potty got knocked off by Chinese competitors immediately.

  • Anyone get like this?

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  • Ive got a friend like that. We were like the closest brothers for a long time, and then I moved far away. We kept in touch for years, but then it fell off when all the MAGA stuff started, and I am almost certain he fell down that well. If I speak to him now, I'll probably have to tell him that we can't be friends anymore, and that's going to hurt, so I've avoided contacting him.

    I'm really not sure how to handle it.

  • Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers

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  • What else would you call people who are escaping an abusive government to avoid impending danger?

    Americans have this deep-seated pride that leads them to believe that "it could never happen here," but I have news for us all, it's already happening, it getting worse every day, and it's going to get far worse than our worst imaginations, if we don't do something serious to stop it.

    I have a degree in history, I know EXACTLY where we are headed, and just being American is not going to protect or save us.

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • The difference is that we have entered an era where people are actually creating "romantic relationships" with AI partners, and this guy seems to have fallen down that well.

    All they need is some sort of physical connection, and we'll be discussing cybernetic marriage in a couple of years.

  • New Denver order takes aim at ICE activity — ordering police to protect protesters, possibly by detaining agents

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  • I hope there are shoot-outs, seems Win-Win to me.

    And this administration LOVES lawsuits, it's their hobby.

  • It’s Official: The Cybertruck is More Explosive Than The Ford Pinto

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  • Back in the 70s and 80s, Pintos were EVERYWHERE. It was a cool little car, I had a few over the years. I think every high school or college student at the time owned at least one.

    I knew one girl, a fellow college student I dated, whose Pinto was the most rusted out vehicle I've ever traveled in. I was in the passenger seat, and I realized the floor was moving, and she said, "Yeah, don't move that cookie sheet too much, that's the floor." I moved it anyway, and sure enough, there was a 10 inch hole rusted through the floorboards, and I could see the road passing below us.

    I had another girlfriend for a long time, who played both tuba and string bass (she weighed 95 pounds), and she figured out how to fit BOTH into her Pinto at the same time. She had to put the back seats down, and the headstock from the bass had to stick out the front passenger window, but she could get them both to gigs in her little Pinto.

  • New Denver order takes aim at ICE activity — ordering police to protect protesters, possibly by detaining agents

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  • Cops love to abuse people, and they don't really care who it is. They get in trouble for choosing their own victims, so if they are told that ICE Apes are fair game, they'll happily go abuse ICE Apes.

  • Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform

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  • Nearly all my music gear was bought used, at about that level of discount. People buy interesting gear, and never get around to tackling the learning curve, and eventually sell it off super cheap.

    If you can be patient, and watch for the exact right gear at the exact right price, and you are focused on performance more than gourmet brand names, you can build a nice home recording studio for super cheap. It took me about two years, but all my gear, and all my instruments, probably didn't cost more than about $1500-2000 total, and most of it is brand new, or nearly so.

  • I've bought myself a new toy

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  • Experimental Airships are like Experimental Firearms: They're very interesting when you can watch someone else demonstrate them, at a safe distance.

  • New Denver order takes aim at ICE activity — ordering police to protect protesters, possibly by detaining agents

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  • I can't wait for city cops to start arresting ICE Apes. Hopefully there's a shoot-out, and every cop in America will instantly hate the ICE Apes.

    Eventually they'll just stay in Blue cities in friendly Red states, and just abuse innocent people trapped behind enemy lines, where they can expect no assistance from the authorities.

  • I've bought myself a new toy

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  • That strategy didn't work out for John Denver. Be careful.