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  • Expired VFR pilot here.

    When driving at night a car has lights on the front, sides, and rear. All of them, including the headlights, are present so that others can more easily maintain visual seperation from that car to avoid a collision.

    Aircraft have lots of incredible technology and talented air traffic controllers that help keep pilots and passengers safe. But, with a single exception, pilots will ignore everyone and everything to maintain visual seperation.

    The exception is a TCAS RA.


  • Test if learning the drums is going to suck or be something that you’ll enjoy by trying to learn to play a basic beat.

    Sitting position.

    Assume your dominant arm is your right.

    Three actions:

    1. Left Hand pats the left knee: snare drum
    2. Right Hand pats the right knee: hi-hat
    3. Right Foot taps the ground: bass drum

    Count the beats: Out loud count, at regular intervals, “one and two and three and four and”: four beats counted as eight eight notes that comprised a measure.

    Combine the actions with the count:

    One: hi-hat and bass

    And: hi-hat

    Two: hi-hat and snare

    And: hi-hat

    Three: hi-hat and bass

    And: hi-hat

    Four: hi-hat and snare

    And: hi-hat

    Some people can learn this in less than a minute. When I started playing drums it took me roughly ten minutes. If this takes you ten minutes then you’re probably not going to enjoy what comes after.

    If you’re faster then that then you should still not begin with a drum set. Instead, buy a snare practice pad and sticks, learn to read music with them, then learn to roll and paradiddle. That’ll keep you busy for a long time. This is how people learn to play with buckets and trash for a set. The expensive drum set comes after learning stick control and technique on the practice pad snare.





  • Do any holy books actually describe or prescribe ‘praying hands’? If so, what do they have to say about it?

    Hinduism originated in the Indus River valley as a collection of oral traditions for a couple millennia. Then, 3000-3500 years ago, the Sanskrit word “namaste”, meaning “bowing to you”, and it’s hands-together pose was documented in what’s today the Hindu Vedas.

    In the Vedas it symbolized the connection of the human and divine. Today “namaste” is commonly used as a respectful greeting. Instead of “namaste”, in America we might say, “Thank you for inviting me to your home.”




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    15 days ago

    Our mass media can incite fear of chickens, pigs, and cattle. Then their existence itself can be defined as a terrorist act. We’ll redefine vegan to mean only those that eat terrorists to save the other animals. Actual vegans can call themselves “vegetablers”. Nothing changes and everyone feels good because if they don’t feel good then they’re not human.




  • Let’s be honest here: None of us are going rogue. We aren’t going to grab a gun and start killing the worst of the worst, the people who have destroyed our lives and or the lives of millions, the people who have benefitted from the creation of a soulless society, the people who ruined our lives. We are cowards. We can’t do it, I certainly know I can’t. It’s best not to kid ourselves here.

    You want confirmation that everyone else is as weak to make yourself feel better. It’s typical neoliberal nonsense.