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.

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

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.

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

They have everything

Saved to https://mltshp.com/asterisk

AI warehouse?

Hey, what's your star sign?

(Sacramento 6 Drive-In)

Absolutely love

@drurystephanie ❤️🙏🏼

Matter of fact it's all dark

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

Mmm, blue raspberry

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

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.

Darn! Sew it is! Someone’ll prolly surge in to needle you about this spindly comment thread.

I may be biased, but @wombatman70 's puns are leaving me in stitches!

Epic Thread!

@idogcow my head is bobbin’ in agreement.

That Singer is a zinger!

Sorry, couldn't come up with a decent pun.

Kinda sad to see old sewing machines taken out of service, but these sure are beautiful. If they're not being used for sewing, at least they're still being appreciated.

i can only hope reverse gear is called backstitch

Put the treadle down and RIDE

I wanna buy one.

Does it operate with a pedal on the floor?

Treadle to the metal

Sweet!

Added to /How-low-can-you-go 🥸

hell of a largemouth!

Congratulations!!

Like a boss!

Now she needs a pony. Congrats!

"And when you're registered they let you do it."

See, that's what they're working on right now, though.

Got mine in

Vote in person if at all possible. On Election Day.

@MackReed I dropped my ballot off in the dropbox by our local library. A few days later I got confirmation from the election board that they'd received it.

Vote early. Vote often.

Ballots delivered yesterday, making plans

@MackReed Same library experience (CA)
Verified online that it was received the next day.

Hooray for all VOTERS!

or vote before Election Day. Election Day is the last day vote, not the only one

Mars or Arizona

That's a lot of Sols.