Santa Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto

james brown has a version ;)

awesome, thanks biggz

pump the old school w my girl sweet tee

ok this is really not in the spirit of xmas, such a sad and dark track :( but what storytelling!

Have an Eazy Christmas Biggas

#1 goes to the Reverend

Doggy Dogg Christmas

Old Skool

Cheers

Asda 3 for a quid

Came here for this 👆

Can't beat a bit of Jordan

Any particular genre you’re after mate?

Helps narrow it down a bit 🤜

Also, if you’ve got game pass you can DL the app to stream Xbox games. Many of which get touch control support (how good that is varies on the dev and game type tbh)

any games you'd recommend for touch control?

Always depends what you like mate?

We talking touch phone games, or touch enabled Xbox game pass? That works pretty well on many games tbh

Play forza on a phone.

You got the vamp survivors which is easy to control while smoking 😂

Plants vs Zombies 2 is fun…imo 🙂

Tacticool 5v5 shooter it’s hours of fun

No rules against it, at least as far as I can see/am aware.

I'm always interested to check out anything audio related.
I would go for it mate, I'm sure plenty others would at least take a look too.

I have seen paintings,. guitars and weed accessories etc listed in the past

I'm not gonna lie my ears 🐰 may have pricked up at audio equipment 🙄😁

What sort of things are you interested in? I've got 20 years design and build experience. Speakers, amps, PA systems, effects pedals, interfaces, preamps, guitar amps, hifi - you name it.

Are you asking what I'm interested or what I can afford 😜

Because that's two very separate things 😭

Yes to all the stuff you listed, I'm currently looking at an sg copy hanging on my wall that got half the gubbins removed, I'm planning on splitting the pickups so that I have one pickup covering all six strings and 2 other pickups covering 3 strings each which I'm them planning on routing to 3 outputs to my pedal board where it's gonna then end up going through a 2 amp one cab design I'm in collecting bits mode for.

I have no idea if it's gonna work how I envision but the idea is to basically be able to saturate as much of sub to shrill with one instrument

Oh and the guitar is a 6 string tuned to A 👍

It's an ongoing side project 😁

Edit technically I'm a bassist so the guitar isn't having a good time

Little bit of both. Mostly just getting a vibe for intests at the moment - I couldn't afford half the stuff I make 😂.

Sounds like a neat project. If you want any help or just want to talk about it, shoot me a message sometimes.

What guage strings are you using to keep that in tune? Lowest I've dared was C standard on Gibson scale 😅

Have you considered using full range speakers in that setup? I play an 8 string guitar use a 1x15 cab with a full range speaker for that shrill and extreme lowend. Then a pair of 2x12 cabs panned stereo

I can't actually remember what speakers are in this cab at the moment, sound quality isn't really a concern currently as I don't plan to go any further than the hutch it's more the fun of working out what I want and then bodging my way to it.

Once again can't remember the previous string that were tuned to A but they came off a little while back , got Ernie ball mammoth slinkies that I think are about where I was but there still in a pack as I'm making darn certain I know what I want to do before getting my dremel out 😁

I actually do have a serious hifi job I need doing and I am to scared to even ask the manufacturer how much to repair it would be

What you like with old naim gear? Specifically a nait 5 amp with *rustles internet it's discreet resistor ladder volume control, mines doing the control itself jump about thing and 🤷🏽 it's naim, I don't have enough kidneys or children left to even cover the email costs to them,.or something 🙄

Well, sick brother Keep me posted on how it goes 😁

Can't go wrong with a set of Ernie balls. I think they have a tool which suggests a guage based on scale length and tunings somewhere on the internet

I usually charge £20/hour + parts for this type of work, and that's gonna take about 20 mins or so. Hopefully your kidneys are worth a lot more than that 😉🤣

AHH we both know it's the 15 man team needed to lift the nait 5 that's the costly part.

Naim seem to swap out the part for something else based on what I could glean with the Google device but that's about all I understood when I looked which was a while ago.

My soldering skills are still at butchery level so I know better than to even try to go delving in there

It's on a priority list it's just a really low priority list in comparison to some of my other priority lists but it's good to know your hour to kidney ratio and I will keep that in mind

Depends on the nature of the fault. Most probably down to the sketchy pot design with this type of failure. A little solder and a new pot should do it. It's Always worth a soft reset just in case gremlins have found their way into the controls 🤔

Soldering is not as tricky as it looks. A little patience and a little (and I emphasise not actually that much) practice, and you'll be golden. With repair work especially, be wary of how much heat is needed for the solder to flow vs. how much will affect component integrity. Takes a little practice 🤞

It's not a pot it's a resistor ladder that controls the volume

If it was a soldering a pot in and out that's something I can do

Tracking down which resistor is spooned and then replacing it is currently above my skill level 😁

Naim stopped using this method after this amp

I was a bit blazed last night 😅 They give you a great volume control, but having an array of resistors is a much bigger pain to service for very little benefit. They're not common until you get to the high end of hifi usually

Yup, I'm lucky that my wife's uncle is a keen but budget limited audiophile so the setup I have was his first setup which he retired due to the aforementioned volume issues, he seemed puzzled that I didn't have issue with it originally but I started to later on.

Well I had an epiphany last night, I didn't have issues first off because I was using a dac to control the volume not the unit and it was only when I went more than one input and started adjusting the volume manually I had issues.

So in theory if I retwiddle the setup and drop all inputs other than the Dac I could find a place where the resistors are all happy and let the Dac to the volume

No rules against it at all but the main reason more legal items are not listed here is because it only takes bitcoin. Few people will pay fees to buy legal stuff🤷‍♂️

I'm just looking for an occasional side project at best and honestly no same person would advertise such a service here, a double edged sword I guess 😅

I'm wondering why nobody has picked up on the last part of your first sentence "...and also read tarot."
Audio equipment and... tarot reading? As in that card thing where everyone knows the Lovers and Death but nowt much else?

"Yes, I can make you some custom audio equipment and today you will have a wank or die!"

I'm only messing matey but certainly interesting!! 😁

Eh, I'm glad someone did! 😂

Yep, I'll gladly tell you when you'll have your death wank. Or help answer the more conventional spiritual dilemmas 😅

Everyone knows tarot for the relationship and life/death advice, but it goes a lot deeper - and a lot shallower too. At the end of the day, it's a fun parlour game.

Looks like I'm setting up shop over the weekend and offering some free readings!

Not sure how you can monetise a Tarot reading on LB but good luck!
Anyway I now have a name for my new Metal band: ☠️DéthWänkë💦

That's a German idm act already I think your too late

In that case I could either double down with credibility and integrity with my REAL musical act or I could just defect to Finland and enter the band into the Eurovisions with a song called Nickity Knockado (Love triumphs over all evil) with the message it is ok to fall in love with a Cheesecake. It is a love ballad in the style of Gwar at 280bpm.

I picked up on it but it doesn't interest me and my knowledge puddle is limited in regards too it.

Happy Xmas btw

Merry New Year... ah ha hahahaha.

Monkey? Monkey? I'm a fikkin Gorilla you clown.

Name the film.

It is a shame. Originally LB was an open store I’m told but crypto and competition online with the likes of eBay kind of shaped it how it is today…

As the wife of the CEO surely you should know that

Or could it be...

There's more than one dog like yours in existence and other people can also take photos of their pets

Anyhow hope your well 🐰❤️🦊

1 don’t use a crypto wallet that requires you to put your id, allegedly

2, find a friend who does skullduggery and sell him your coin and charge him 5%
Allegedly

This way you can allegedly avoid paying any tax on any crypto you have

So I’ve heard

A lot of my friends lost their BTC in boating accidents

Goto tax free country and cash out .. then open a business and give your self monthly wage from that company.

how did this individual go about selling the crypto?

Hypothetically is about to sell on coinbase

not hypothetically that's a show stopper, use a p2p exchange

So what would one do?
Send the crypto to another p2p exchange?
Which would you recommend?

Hypthetically, they should convert their coins into USDT or USDC to lock in profits first and foremost.


Peer to peer has much less of a paper trail and I would hate for traders to use P2P if I was uncle Sam.

Which exchange would they send from coinbase to?

No is the answer, not true treatments anyways, chemo will have no benefit in any form if there’s no cancer… As to doing your best to prevent, of course, eat well, drink less alcohol, make sure you keep your body as clear as you can of free radicals using supplements, many many ways you can likely prolong the inevitable if it is truly indeed inevitable but you can’t fight genetic code but you can make sure all the other systems are running as optimally as possible through lifestyle and supplementation.

just get regular checkups. In a lot of cases, the treatment can be worse than the disease. I first was diagnosed with NHL in 2008 but didn't need treatment until 2018 & if I had been smart I would have a avoided a lot (or all) of the treatment I'm receiving. Treatment can also increase your chances of getting a different type of cancer later in life.

Start taking cold showers daily?

Below is a text from a link to newscientist.com from Wim Hof's Twitter page.

"Cold exposure stops tumour growth in mice by hijacking glucose stores

Being continuously exposed to 4°C (39°F) for 20 days inhibited tumour growth and improved the survival of mice with five different types of cancerous cells

A brown fat cell, surrounded by capillaries, captured via a coloured scanning electron micrograph. Activating brown fat through cold exposure may cause it to burn glucose, which cancerous tumour cells rely on for growth

Cold temperatures could inhibit the growth of cancerous cells, according to research conducted in mice and one person with Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Exposure to low temperatures is thought to prompt brown fat cells to burn glucose, cancer cells’ dominant energy source.

Some existing cancer treatments disrupt glucose uptake to slow or prevent tumour growth. These tend to be administered via drugs, rather than whole-body exposure to cold therapy. Drugs may have more side effects and complex administration regimens, relative to cold therapy.

To test cold therapy’s potential, Yihai Cao at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and his colleagues implanted five different types of cancerous cells into a group of mice. Some of the rodents were then continuously exposed to very low temperatures, but above freezing, for 20 days.

This exposure activated the mice’s brown fat tissue, which burns energy rather than storing it, reducing the tumours’ energy supply.

These mice went on to have considerable tumour inhibition and a survival rate that was almost double that of mice that received no treatment.

“This is really something new: not directly targeting cancer cells, but rather altering global metabolism in the body to affect tumours,” says Cao.

To eliminate the possibility that the tumour suppression was down to something other than the cold therapy, Cao and his team intervened in several ways. After surgically removing the cold-exposed mice’s brown fat, or turning off the gene by which brown fat generates heat, tumour inhibition was absent.

The inhibition was also absent when the mice were fed a high-glucose diet, suggesting that the tumours’ growth was inhibited by a lack of glucose. The team also performed a genetic analysis on the cold-exposed tumours, finding a decrease in markers associated with glucose consumption.

In a second part of the experiment, Cao and his team exposed a group of six healthy human volunteers to 16°C (61°F) for 2 to 6 hours a day for two weeks. Similarly to the mice, the volunteers’ brown fat tissue became activated.

The researchers then continuously exposed a person with Hodgkin’s lymphoma to 22°C (72°F) for seven days. Not only did their brown fat become activated, their tumours also consumed less glucose over this period.

The results are solid, but more research needs to be carried out, both in animals and in humans with tumours, says Katiuscia Bianchi at the Barts Cancer Institute in London.

According to Saverio Tardito at the Beatson Institute in Glasgow, UK, the mice tumour growth results are “striking”. But given that this treatment would most likely be administered in combination with chemotherapy, it might negatively affect chemotherapy drugs, he says, which has to be ruled out before any joint treatments are carried out.

Cao himself concedes that the genetic variation in people’s brown fat and its response to cold might make the treatment unsuitable for some. People with later-stage cancer who have already lost weight also may be unable to risk losing more through brown fat-driven energy consumption, he says."

Journal reference: Nature, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05030-3

You are welcome. Check out Rife machines too. Invented by Royal Raymond Rife who used frequency to treat patients. Interesting stuff

Synthetic drug treatments are not the way forward at this time watts .
Living a clean lifestyle is & what we put into our bodies plays a big part to a healthy life .
If u want any help on this you can dm anytime

Living a healthy lifestyle is underrated when trying to prevent cancer. Imo

The only thing you can do is live your best life for your parents, try not to focus on things you have no control over.

Raise or donate some money to cancer research this may help you focus on something more positive.
All the best👍

paris is the ultimate cookie cutter master planned community that everyone hates now

Sorry I'm going to have to kill you now, nothing personal you understand.

You just said it again lad. This *is* starting to get personal.

This is why I tricked him into killing himself, you guys see what he's like?

If only mate.
What tricks you got for me?
You gonna juggle ?

Don't speak without leave mister, e's a bleedin' good boy 'e is!

I'd love to see more of this sort of thing..

at least give us a pronoun preference

😂

LV— but there listings are gone.

You alright?

ULC...

I think there has always been feudalism in one form or another. There is always a class that ultimately owns everything because they can confiscate it, grant it a "title" or tax it. This premise always leads to same outcome it's just a matter of how greedy or insane the current landlord is.

Everything consolidates one way or another, thats why decentralization is both great and doomed.

Anthropologist David Graeber did a book about about this myth called Debt. There is no evidence for class dominant economics bar this relatively small and recent period of time. Obviously the myth has more value than the reality.

probably starting from the neolithic era yes with the only exception of the 20th century, the only period of history where people got a bit of control of the power. Now is going to be lost for decades to come.

We need to look on the bright side, we are actually free serfs. We are free to seek a new master and we can seek redress in the crown courts, unfree serfs couldn't. However if we hadn't spent so much bit coin here we might actually be free with the value of it now.

sometimes a imagine a stack of the coins over time and shiver. so then i buy more weed.

Wise words, Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel says the same but takes 350 odd pages.

yes, were hard wired for this shit

Nice hook

Thanks for sharing.

I see examples of this not just on the internet but in all industries. Walk down most high streets here in the UK and they now pretty much all look identical the same shops, coffee shops and chain restaurants with very few independent offerings. The cost of rent, business rates and all the red tape make it pretty much impossible nowadays for small independents to even start up.

Watching a show about fisherman on the BBC painted a picture of the EU quota system they must use and how the industry is dominated by money and huge boats and how these owners buy up small fishing boats and take the quotas these boats have to use on the mega trawlers.

The car industry seems totally monopolised now and we actually get very little choice - notice how the different makers share chassis and engines and the only real difference you get is the interior and badge. Everything else is pretty much controlled by rules and regulations.

It is obvious that these big players of industry are in cahoots with the those that set the rules and regulations as we saw with the emissions scandal with VW and EU collaboration.

Covid and lockdowns have exacerbated the situation as many small business owners left without any financial supports have gone to the wall while government loans to the huge corporations sit unused in their bank accounts.

Truly depressing times.

This is the model dreamed up by Gabrielle D'Nunzio, Mussolini, Franco and later tried by Stroessner, Pinochet and Thatcher. Always fails cos tho i am a committed capitalist even i realise extraction cannot work for ever as either you run out of victims (Franco, Pinochet) or the victims turn on you (Mussolini, Thatcher) At least Il Duce didn't cry when his turn came, Thatcher mewled and puked like a rat.

thatcher was as much a military dictator as she was latin

Fascinating. Bleak. truly people have been brainwashed by the media and now vote with their wallets. Far more regulation required at the top end, we cant stop the progress, and in many ways it serves us well. Democracy can still win the day, and we can unite for the good of all people. Education is the key, and a few good humans can change the world. It cant be allowed that rampant free market capitalism destroys us. Roll on technical singularity, according to Moores law would be around 2042 but i believe the theory is faultering (Moores law) so might take a bit longer. Technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization. We have just leisure time so we study philosophy and all becone enlightened beings living in a tech utopia. Peace

Moore's law is doing fine once you abstract it to include progress besides chip density. Computation overall is on track when you include advances in software and a.i.

it will take more than economics for everyone to spend their leisure time studying philosophy. but im with you at least

Hope so but would we be the same beings, even the same species? I think Nietszche was mostly a clown but "homo, ecce homo" hits home

What is Neo Feudalism and being British mean?

Neo-feudalism refers to a concept that draws parallels between modern societal structures and the feudal system of the Middle Ages. It suggests that power and wealth are concentrated in the hands of a few influential individuals or entities, leading to a significant wealth disparity and limited social mobility. In a neo-feudalistic system, there may be an entrenched hierarchy, with a small elite class exerting control over economic, political, and social aspects, while the majority of the population faces limited opportunities and struggles to improve their circumstances.

Being British refers to being a citizen or a resident of the United Kingdom or having a connection to British culture and heritage. It typically implies a sense of national identity associated with the customs, traditions, and values of the British people. It encompasses aspects such as the English language, British history, British institutions, and cultural practices that are prevalent in the UK. However, it's important to note that "being British" can mean different things to different people, as it can encompass a diverse range of identities and perspectives within the multicultural society of the United Kingdom,

digital land barons & their consumers

Like the last feudal era they will ultimately fail IMO. Biden, bezos, bj and the two conos in NZ & Canada are only one mad bomber away from losing all the kleptocratic gains they have extracted. Putin and Xi poss a battalion or two away. Even if the above are stopped there are always despots trying their luck. The better angels of our nature (thanks Pinker, S) have always stayed in the fight so that the new boss is NOT always the same as the old boss (thanks Townshend, P)

Still cant see how the media justified doxing this guy. Glad he is still speaking up, not sure if I even agree with the philosophy but he is spot on about the regulatory capture and plutocratic controls forming already.