First, they killed Jesus Christ. Now this.
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This is strong.
But, this is backwards imo. If someone has just been together for a few months, let them do their fucking like rabbits. If they are in a sltr they should be free, independent and secure enough to have time for friends.
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Update on my WAAQ quest to acquire classic synths: only one that I’ve either paid for (out of 4) or tried to purchase (3) has shown up on my door step so far. Most annoying was a Yamaha TX81Z I bought for $70 shipped or so I thought only to have the seller ghost me. Now I get frequent updates from the site telling me that the dude has recently sold it.
Deals are almost nonexistent right now. I have a big NFL draft style list of WANTS and NEEDS and what I think are fair prices, what the repair issues are, etc. For example, the Juno 106 is a nice ax, and I suppose it could be worth $1,800, but that would be the price for a fully-serviced one in excellent cosmetic condition with new voice chips (from Analog Renaissance, not a DIY acetone bath). In reality, almost all of the ones listed at that price need $500-$600 of service minimum and are nowhere near excellent. It’s so shitty trying to wade through all of these fake listings that I’ve considered writing a script that spams them with lowball offers.
So yeah looks like I’m gonna be working inside the box for a while but I’ve been staying busy with deep dives on the V.A.S.T. architecture.
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Is there not a thread for 2p2 gossip anymore or am I missing it? This ACR/Jonathan Little situation has been tilting me. Not surprising to see Mason and most of NVG taking Nagy’s side and unleashing potshots at JL. Had to chime in with some thoughts on that one…
The 22 thread is in French BBV.
https://unstuckpolitics.com/t/why-did-this-forum-split-from-2-2/1035/2066
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From over a year ago on a similar sort of thread. Today got a sandwich that made absolutely 0 indications of pickles. In fact in was just labeled as spicy pepper jack chicken sandwich. Last time I got it 0 pickles. One bite today and I thought it was poisoned. Insta spit out, to the point where spit out didn’t even look gross. Yep it had pickles. I looked over the list of ingredients and didn’t see pickles listed. Fuck pickles.
Love the passion, but this is a HORRIBLE take.
Here’s my rant: There shouldn’t be two threads for this worthy topic. Just one thread that is constantly near the top of the main page.
Pickles taste great. Come @ me
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Bread and Butter pickles GOAT.
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Fucking Comcast.
Bill went up, called and got a reduction and an upgrade on internet speed, but would require a modem upgrade.
Great, go to the comcast store, swap out my old modem for a new one, bring the new one home, and it’s stuck in a captive portal loop.
Call Comcast support. Reboot your modem, change the SSID… “Can you reset your browser settings” “Fuck you, I’m not resetting my browser settings when it’s clearly evident that this modem is fucked.”. Okay, we’ll send you out a technician. Earliest appointment is Tuesday. Oh, you and your wife both work from home and have unbreakable meetings on Monday? And your daughter is doing distance learning? Okay, fuck you, our first appointment is still Tuesday. “Can I just go and swap the modem out at the store, I’m sure it’s the modem.” No, we have to send a technician. “Okay, book the appointment, but I’m still going to the store and swapping out the modem”. Go to store, swap out modem, modem boots right up. Cancel appointment. This all took about 5 hours of effort on Saturday between the phone call and going to the Comcast store.
Fuck you Comcast. If I had any other options other than 1.5 Mb Centurylink service I’d cancel you fuckers.
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Also, just fuck everything.
We work hard all week, but can’t really do anything. Air quality is at “instant death” level so we couldn’t even get outdoors this weekend. My nephew is having a baby and has turned into a full blown trumper/q anon/save the children/racist fucktard. Trump still has support and is a coinflip to win reelection. I’m still fat. So is my wife. My daughter watches too much TV because she can’t do the things she normally would be doing. I’m bored at work and have little work to do. I’m very likely to miss my yearly (12th year!) Pan trip with the boys. I made Persian food last night that was disappointing. And overall I just have a low level of anxiety boiling at all times about our current state of affairs and our future and feel powerless to change it. And I’m worried about dodging bullets if Trump loses in November.
But, I keep reminding myself that my wife and I are still both employed, and my daughter is happy. But it’s hard finding good things on a daily basis.
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Don’t have the air quality problem here in Alabama but I have the same issues otherwise.
Brother/Family dumb/trumpers.
Trump still might win.
I’d like to lose some weight.
My wife would too.
All 3 of my kids play way too many video games/screentime since the pandemic period.
We are about to miss my family beachtrip that has been a tradition for like 10 years now, everyone else seems to think its fine, my sister asked again yesterday if we were for sure not going, like wtf no we aren’t.
Same for anxierty boiling etc.
My job seems stable from what I’m being told even as our work slows down for probably all of Q4 but my wife is working some still and all the kids seem to be doing ok overall.
meh, this year just sucks ass.
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The internet provider market in the USA is the worst i’ve ever seen in both quality, pricing, competition and customer service.
Xfinity has a complete monopoly over internet in my location (north california) and they offer joke quality internet for obscene prices and draconian contract terms, which would be flat out illegal in Israel.
When i expressed my dissatisfaction with the new prices they are charging me after my “promition” ended (randomly after 20 months?) they flat out said i have no other choices.
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I feel you buddy. Feeling the exact same way!
I forgot a key piece of my rant. My niece, my deplorable nephew’s sister, has been in a serious relationship with a black guy for over a decade and just had a baby. So his nephew is a mixed race baby, and he’s still posting about how hunting down Antifa and BLM protestors.
I’ve been trying to figure out a way to talk to him and explain to him how much of a fucktard he is and how I’m cutting him out of my life until he figures out how to be a human being and I think I finally honed in on relating police brutality to his nephew. I’ll ask if he’d still feel the same way about black people getting shot if it were his nephew that got pulled over for a broken tail light and ended up getting shot 5 times by the cops.
I doubt it’ll help, but it’ll make me feel better before cutting him out of my life.
One positive is my nephew is having a baby shower and I convinced my mother to skip it because of Covid. I told her she can tell everybody that I forbade her from going and they can blame me.
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Update: deplorable nephew and I are no longer on speaking terms.
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Probably for the best
I think so. It was something I was planning on doing in the next few weeks but it happened organically today.
I think you’re a quality poster. You’re funny and bring the passion. But your deranged pickles rant is going to make me vote for Mitch
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