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.
“Natural consequences” is the buzzword. Make sure the consequences fit the action. You squirted most the toothpaste into the aink? You don’t get access to toothpaste, and mom/dad have to do your toothbrush.
This works with my kid because they value their autonomy very highly. Your child may value things differently.
Something to keep in mind: the goal isn’t to be a high-discipline parent, it’s to be a consistent parent. Express expectations and consequences, then hold to them. This helps children feel secure, and dramatically reduces testing behaviors (not to zero but much lower).
The magnet and the metal plate pull each other, so all the pull forwards is cancelled out by the pull backwards.
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.
Good luck. I’ve already lost hope that we can rein in gas companies in Colorado but it would be amazing if you did.
Both alcohol and weed are the only pain management some people have access to.
Naked Capitalism started me on the road to communism, so I still appreciate it for that.
It’s a chunk of plastic on your wrist. It’s always going to be a bit tacky.
The link leads to a page for Half Earth Socialism…
This seems much less effective than the Espiku system covered in OSU’s Engineering Out Loud podcast.
Boulder has a height limit on bldgs in the city (unless you’re fucking Google) so shitty McMansions are what’s being built after scraping a few lots
Beverly was always a self insert (like most trek characters) for professional STEM types, in this case the career doctor who loves romance novels.
Initially, pretty poor. ND Stevenson was a webcomic artist. The show was remade in order to reclaim a shitty toy commercial and make it into an examination of identity and self-worth, against a backdrop of (cartoonish) empire.
Look, if you write off the whole industry, you create a massive cultural gulf between yourself and everyone who watches anything. Meanwhile, movies like Snowpiercer or Sorry To Bother You manage to speak to people you would never dream of reaching out to.
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.
Not true. Locations can survive on commuters.