I'm glad to have you as a friend and so happy you're out and proud. Never apologize, never compromise.

I feel bad. I didn't know that was today. I would have worn my Haring T-Shirt!

Anish Kapoor fires up his team of lawyers...

Goddammit now I got the Katsmsri Damacy theme running in my head.

Love this form of enabling!

What a beauty, cool to get it back in service

I love these old beasts

Vintage receivers are great. I usually don't recommend them to people but if you're willing to put up with the downsides they can be good sound on the cheap.

The downsides can be pretty severe. A lot of electronic components aren't made, haven't been made in decades -- if a power transistor dies, it's a doorstop. Even some resistors and other basic components that were common commodities a dozen years ago aren't made any more.* And honestly with modern speakers most vintage receivers are ridiculously overpowered, and their architecture makes them big energy-guzzling space heaters.

*I've seen people in the industry say that various pro audio and consumer audio companies have been frantically hoarding things like resistors and diodes in the past couple years because the component manufacturers have effectively obsoleted all through-hole components.

@ardgedee One of the great joys of the modern age of internet forums is finding people who recap and then also go back and test the 50 (!!!) year old caps and compare them to initial spec. Every unit is different but few seem to have drifted more than 10% from where they should have been. I don't know if my ears are golden enough anymore to hear ten percent of drift, and I certainly don't begrudge anyone who wants perfect sound forever, but I'm happy enough to enjoy them for what they age into, and they'll still be be viable for pretty good sound for a long time yet.

@1f2frfbf Very few types of capacitors have a usable lifespan shorter than a human's. Recapping tends to be one of those things dudes do with electronics because they don't actually understand how it works but they know how to solder and read an oscilloscope, and they've fixated on capacitors because community wisdom has taught them that since *some* kinds of caps (which are probably not in any given piece of electronics) are known to be problematic, *all* of them have to be replaced regularly.

I've got a 45 year old McIntosh receiver and a >50 year old Heathkit receiver. I had both inspected for problems when I got them, and they both continue to work perfectly on their original capacitors. Despite the Heathkit having been evidently rode hard and put up wet before I found it.

@ardgedee Good to know! I always like having my laziness vindicated...

Funnily enough, I did have to have the speedo in my Volvo recapped because they blew out and it quit working. Didn't sound any better after, tho.

My uncle had one of these and as a kid I loved that tuning dial. Just a wonderful balance to it.

I was hoping so much that someone had done a major remodel with some fun materials.

My Little Pony, house.

I am trying dark rye, w/wheat, cocoa. I have ended up Frankensteining it, adding yeast, more water, sugar, flour. Going for rolls, uf it will rise. Your loaf is gorgeous, salute.

Beelzebubba is on my list, too.

Omg the Milkmen and the DKs yes. The format is too limiting for anybody with an eclectic palate. Top 25 might be more apt - and probably still too limiting.

Tim is in my next nine

You can leave your hat on …

All hat and no cattle

Oh, that Repo Man album, I played that til the grooves wore down.

@kokogiak Likewise!

@kokogiak SAME.

would you like some making fuck, Berzerker!

What makes this so much more terrible (morality aside) is that these costs should actually be *higher*. China really saved our asses this summer but that's over now. There's going to be so many books written about the manipulation that's happened in the past few months to keep prices down in the U.S. The crack spreads are completely untenable - I'm super dreading what prices are going to be after the midterms when Shithead doesn't care anymore. It's already happening with vessel costs, which have absolutely exploded. We're talking 20x costs compared to January this year.

And then on top of it all, the Clown Prince of Saudia Arabia pulled one of the most boneheaded tactical blunders of the past 100 years in Yemen. We're paying (and will continue to pay) with the cost of oil. They might end up paying with their kingdom. Regional people are paying with their lives. Just today the Houthis managed to get the largest oil field in the world as well as Aramco facilities elsewhere. (The airport is part of this, too, but that's tourism etc.) One drone, one missle, one covert operation - they can fix pipelines and pumping stations and refineries all they want, it doesn't matter when it can get hit again the next day.

Add in El Nino and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. . . Americans are going to feel it in 2027. What makes me cry is that while we Americans just "feel" it for the most part, in other parts of the world people are going to die. And all a bunch of crappy people care about is that it costs $150 to fill their grossly huge Dodge Rams.

I unabashedly ADORE this.

Fuck yea. There is hope.

i'm here for this!

honestly, unabashedly happy for the kids able to carry the music with them wherever they go, but: *especially* happy that this gets them to experience music on its own, without the spotify algorithm guiding them, without the ads bombarding them, etc, etc, ad nauseam.

(also, it reminds me that i have a TI cassette [drive] that i salvaged years ago but never got into working order. should pull it out and give it a proper cleanup.)

Coolest woman at the campus radio station used to carry a Fisher Price cassette player c1985.

Nature is healing

Time for the iPod Nano to return.

@grantbarrett That’s the other link I showed. This seems like devolution.

They have everything

Saved to https://mltshp.com/asterisk

AI warehouse?

Hey, what's your star sign?

(Sacramento 6 Drive-In)

Wiltshire born
Wiltshire bred
Strong in the arm
But thick in the head

Thick as a brick. Dumb as a bagga hammers.

I am framing this.

EINSTEIN
WRONG AGAIN
Neils Bohr Says
Nothing Funny About
American Idiocy

Absolutely love

@drurystephanie ❤️🙏🏼

Matter of fact it's all dark

Vision test. Look with one eye only, and then, the other.

Trails were blazed 🫡

immortalized in Lego Ideas 'Women In Space" №21312

One of my employees worked for her and is still at the lab. She has nothing but nice things to say about her.

Woah. What a hero

my fav Beatles and Radiohead and Steve Martin albums also

I see a three sided record in there

last year, my record shop dude found a japanese pressing of “rubber soul” for me and it was revelatory. it’s still such a great album.

also this reminds me i need to go back and give more of XTC’s stuff another try

I don't quite know why. But this positively looks like a painting.
Wonderful picture

Best of the internet!
I dislike the pinterest UI so much

(CBGB, allegedly.)

@bezt confirmed. I’ve pissed there a few times.

Toilet paper and a seat? Unlikely I would've thought.

@not_copinghagen We weren’t animals. Just punks.

Also you could never count on the seat actually being there.

My first time using that bathroom was my last. I would just leave and go to a bar down the block to use theirs. Sometimes I would not be able to get back in but it was worth it. Not shown: omnipresent patron bathroom shenanigans. Sex, drugs, violence.

Holy moly that pinterest portal awoke something in me I thought had disappeared. It's wonderful!

Mmm, blue raspberry