That decision comes years or decades after practice and learning, which people do because A) they find just noodling on the instrument fun, and/or b) they find improving their skill deeply rewarding, and/or c) they think guitar/music is just really cool.

A bad instrument can make the experience miserable, though. My first acoustic was fucking awful, just straight trash. How long does yours stay in tune?

I work at a plant that uses one of those alternative flocculants (due to our source water chemistry). Our logistics are incredibly shaky at the best of times, due to the extremely limited number of producers.

If you see other players. Probably less awkward to try to find a club.

Most bottled water comes from a municipal water system somewhere, i.e., is tap water.

Some water supplies have issues with sulfur or algae, so that can be unpleasant if your sense of smell is particularly sensitive. My sense of smell is pretty weak so I drink the tap water most places, while my spouse had an RO system installed in our house due to their sensitivity.

Supplements suck that way, sorry. I’ve found a couple brands that work for me (Nature’s Way, Horbäach), but I’m no supplement expert. I’d try to find a mid-price option that didn’t seem too sketchy.

As for nootropic stacks and whatnot: never heard of them, although they seem interesting. I personally take 2g of tyrosine along with vitamin D and a vitamin B complex (plus a couple medical rx). I would start at 500mg-1g, and add more after a week if you felt you needed to. I have taken tyrosine with omega 3s but never regularly; I didn’t notice an interaction at the time.

Tyrosine. It’s a dopamine precursor. By itself, it mildly increases focus just enough to get non-preferred tasks started. It also makes completing tasks much more rewarding, which can start a positive feedback loop that leaves your space much more livable/less depressing.

Laser printers don’t burn anything. They make static on paper that ink/toner clings to.

So, harmontown

And he can have one once he stops playing all the notes.

Look into public works.

It’s a chunk of plastic on your wrist. It’s always going to be a bit tacky.

Beverly was always a self insert (like most trek characters) for professional STEM types, in this case the career doctor who loves romance novels.

Dylan Carlson, frontman of Earth, actually gave Kurt the shotgun. He was convinced someone was gonna do a Lennon on Kurt.

Over a basic backing track in a MacBook, yeah.

Most boring concert I’ve ever been to. The Wood Brothers were more exciting.

I think the scariest thing is that it isn’t a disinformation campaign. Disinformation and propaganda are part of partisan politics (for instance, Republicans still think Joe Biden wanted to defend the police and Democrats still think there’s a pee tape). Just stating true facts is enough to get people arguing.

If we would just accept facts we didn’t like, a lot of these foreign actors would have a lot less power.

Michael Hudson calls it out fairly regularly.

Marjorie Taylor Greene of the rockies

Voxes sound so good.

I just dropped $560 on an Arturia Minifreak to replace my Microkorg XL+ that has a busted tempo knob.

Those are synths. I’m a bassist. Gear is addictive, yo.

No, what they proved is it’s hard as fuck to go from zero industry to the most industry when most of the world’s wealthy want you to fail. Famine was and is a real societal threat and we forget that it happened regularly not that long ago.

All you folks who downvoted this post, find me a communist country that the US didn’t try to coup