DooDiligence

Who is Brandon?

Switching the burden of proof? You started this and SPY was a lazy answer. Talk your book.

I appreciate your pushback on BRK but think you waffled with SPY.

The result of an attack on Taiwan could easily be the destruction of productive resources, (human and otherwise), that the Chicom government wants to control. What would they benefit? As it stands now, they can saber rattle for bargaining chips in world negotiations, (today is mixed metaphor day). Their actions can and will have an effect on the shaping of Taiwanese society and if they're smart, they'll study this. Which gets me to wondering, just how much of mainland Chinese society is being influenced by their institutions and how much will these institutions will be changed by conflict between socioeconomic layers. They are a quasi communist society so conflict theory can't be dismissed, right? Being a western individualist, I have difficulty extrapolating the effects of eastern collectivism, but I see possibilities beyond the kumbaya meme.

If you don't like bacon, you're missing out.

more adsk. those bombed out buildings aren’t gonna just design themselves. seriously though, switching costs.

There are a lot of great listeners out there!

More BBH & INTC for a long term hold.

If I remember right, you play bass? I've been heavily tilted towards jazz, with a fat beat and bass. The Yamaha MOXF has some great arpeggiated drums and that's what I mostly use for rhythms. I use a looper pedal to lay down a harmony (4, 8, 12 or 16 bars), and then practice melodic improv over that using blues scales, octatonic and whole tone and broken chords. It's one thing to do it in the studio and another thing entirely to do it in front of a crowd or a camera. I'm slowly working up the courage. Just learned Crazy, (Willie Nelson wrote it for Patsy Cline), and it fits perfectly with a jazz set. Most people would call it country but it's definitely not, (ii V I progression, shot through with extended chords, puts this squarely into the jazz bucket IMO). I add a lot of right hand embellishment that the original keyboardist included. A lot of the theory I learned comes in handy for re-harmonizing with passing chords. I love the way that F7#5 fits in between the 1st 2 verses, (at the last bar on the attached lead sheet). I wish I had some people (40 yo and up), to start playing with.

Soul Kitchen is the only Doors song I can do, and I do it as a playalong with the mp3. I've finally gotten out of academic mode and have started building a repertory of mostly jazz covers with improv. I plan on getting out this Spring and doing open mics. When I find some people to play with, recordings and videos will get posted for sure.

That Fender Rhodes sound + the Vox Continental. I get both of these from a Yamaha MOXF6. On the Numa, I set an upper and lower manual to get the left hand bass. I should probably work up some Doors. The only thing I can play now is Soul Kitchen.

I like the monitoring tab for a quick way to find discussions by people who are significantly more capable than myself. The quant data is close enough for me.

I like roic.ai I think someone on here has mentioned it before.

Love that B3 sound. I've been playing a Studiologic Numa 2 organ for a few months now. For anyone interested, the Numa is a good drawbar clone wheel with an excellent key bed and a nice Leslie emulator. You can get one for less than $1000. The metal case makes it eminently roadworthy. I don't use bass pedals but have developed a pretty good left hand. Jazz...

ethnocentrism in a 24 hour news cycle, go figure personally, I think Putin got exactly what he wanted (without a shot being fired), when westerners left the country he's an expert fiddle player

a constant stream of straw men stuffed with ad hominem attacks by the willfully ignorant who stand on the sands of shifting burdens of proof

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I prefer the stability of the large caps. I plan on holding for a very long time. Anyone who wants to make money should do the opposite of me.

BBH Halfway to a full position that I intend to hold until...

3rded Make the ads bigger, I'm having a hard time seeing them.

Says the world class creator of straw men.

LOLZERS, my mistake. I'm sure you're a great guy. A little thin skinned, but a prince nonetheless.

Perceptions are subjective. Sharing doesn't imply any such thing to me. You have to force selfish toddlers to share. Toddlers are also poor judges of merit. Being magnanimous is great. Refusing to be generous simply because someone tells you it's required is petty and immature and negates any generosity you think you may possess. Altruism requires no recognition and does not seek it. If you get pissed because someone doesn't bend a knee to your largess, well...

Conversely, could it not be considered greedy to be unwilling, and in fact hostile, to the idea of sharing wealth that will probably never see the light of day to begin with, while mindlessly grasping for more? Judging the worthiness of recipients based on vague generalities may make it seem not. Value rotation indeed.