Maybe they should have another police riot so that they can get some job satisfaction from attacking nonviolent citizens again.

Thanks for the recommendation. I bookmarked this comment in case they put ads in the app that I paid money for years ago. I got the ad update today, so I switched.

The very first thing he says is the most damning.

He wanted to use the death penalty against the people who stood up to Trump’s fascist insurrection.

Dude got what he earned.

It’s so hard to get into it; I’d never played one before I picked it up either.

This is a good entry-level lute. I had wanted one for a while before I got mine, but I was worried about spending so much and having it be unplayable.

I fortunately talked to another musician who had one of these already and he sounded fantastic, so I decided to take the plunge. I’m glad I did! There’s nothing like playing period music on the actual instrument that would have been used (modern convenience like temperament aside) and reading from historical tabs.

I ran into the guy again about a month ago, and he has an incredible luthier-made theorbo that sounds amazing. Maybe I’ll get one of those some day lol!

I play the renaissance lute, which also uses tied frets. I just play in equal temperament because its easier and my ear isn’t that good. I’m merely an ambitious amateur though, maybe I’ll get into it one of these days.

Yup, they use wrapped gut frets. They’re moveable so that the musicians could adjust intonation in the period before equal temperament was invented.

I play early music, and what we call a viol de gamba is a different thing; the viola is fretless and held under the chin like a violin, while the viol de gamba is a renaissance/baroque-era fretted instrument that is held between the legs and comes in treble, tenor, and bass sizes.

Savall plays the latter.

To further confuse the matter, there’s a renaissance-era instrument called the vielle that is played more like a modern violin or viola.

Recorders sound incredible in consort! I play the tenor myself. Glad to see another player of early music around here.

There’s no such thing as a good billionaire.

Fuckin’ leech.

Oh look, a list of the worst people in the city!

Billionaires are a sign of a sick society; they’re exploiters, takers, and ghouls who are so delusional that they think they earned their dragon hordes.

My favorite to play is the acoustic guitar, because it’s largely unchanged for a couple hundred years.

You don’t need to plug it in, just strum or pluck. It’s incredibly versatile, highly portable, and it sounds amazing.

My favorite thing to do is playing chord melodies. Basically, I’ll find chords to a song online and then play part of the chord and the melody on top of it. It’s a quick & dirty way to arrange an instrumental version, though I do like to sing and play too.

I think people’s favorite is whatever they grew up with.

I played a lot of MechWarrior 2 as a kid. Give me the stompybois.

To add:

If cops are afraid of civilians having this hardware, they’re in the same boat as the rest of us. Maybe they’ll have some incentive to lobby for laws that would keep all of us safe.

But instead they lobby for things like perpetuating the decades long “war on drugs,” which is largely what this breach and clear shit is used for.

They want to wage war on civilians. And, really, just some civilians.

Here’s an archived version that’s not paywalled.

I really don’t care if cops have to deal with that. It’s their job.

If they don’t want to do it, find another one. The world could use fewer armed right-wing meathead goons.

Or try de-escalation for a change.

We know what happens when we arm a police force with military weapons and no accountability.

I absolutely blame the cops and the people who gave them these deadly toys.

If a tradesman “fixed” my plumbing with C4 I’d blame the plumber and the guy who gave him the explosive.

I’d rather the right-wing paramilitary not have weapons of war.

A SWAT team destroyed a Texas home and refused to pay for the damage. Now the homeowner is fighting back.

Police Owe Nothing To Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeals Court Says

Wisconsin police send armoured vehicle to collect fine from 75-year-old

Homeowner left to cover damages after Las Vegas SWAT raid goes awry

Not an MRAP, but explosives: Police tore through the wrong house. Now Austin won’t pay for the damage.

And these are just the ones where they got the wrong house (other than the one where they drove an armored car to a guy’s house to intimidate him). They’re offensive weapons, and the cops use them as such.

I don’t get why people are fine with arming the police with military hardware like MRAPs.

Their whole job is to control the civilian population and people want to arm them with the means to drive into a house and start unloading on the residents within?

They’re a right-wing paramilitary force; we should be limiting their reach instead of giving them armor and quad-damage power-ups.

“We’re good on opsex.”

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