So, like 10 years ago when I got a big amount of money for Christmas, I went and bought my first guitar, which I could really only afford a Squier Bullet. Fast forward to now, I still have this but I also have a Epiphone Les Paul Standard a friend gave me....
As a side question, where do you get good quality guitars parts (in the US)? I have a cheap Jackson Dinky which is sort of dear to me but I need to replace the bridge. Amazon guitar parts look kinda questionable…
Street musicians singing Russian songs in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv could soon face problems. Likewise, bars and restaurants playing Russian background music may end up getting in trouble....
For context: The UK and US did not ban German classical music during WW1 and WW2, and works by Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, Brahms etc were performed and broadcast on radio.
Unsurprisingly the Nazis did censor a lot of music. Don’t be like the Nazis is the lesson, I guess.
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Europe has a lot of suburbia too and rural areas too though. I live in the SF Bay Area. It’s population density is similar to many regions in Europe (barring ultra urban cities like capitals). Yet with this density (and loads of money) we sadly still don’t have decent public transportation here…
The source of some of the biggest problems of the nation, not just the Bay Area. We have so many resources but a refusal to share even a little bit makes us all worse off.
The day is a bit much but I’m enjoying the evenings outside. After about 7 it’s actually really nice and you can comfortably watch the sun set over the hills.
if the otter were to bite or harm a person, she would have to be euthanized.
I never understood this. If it were an uncontrollable wild animal like a bear I guess I get why, but just put the otter in a nice aquarium and take care of it and see how it goes before killing her…
That’s too bad. But to be honest their beers just weren’t good enough. Sales come from having a good product and/or big brand recognition, and they had neither going for them. Hope someone can take over and improve their brews, because the history is pretty special.
Just overall I find their beers a bit underwhelming compared to other local breweries. Even forgoing some of the amazing craft breweries around here (Laughing Monk!), I’d typically choose a Trumer over Anchor Steam, or some other local beer.
I’ve tried a great many beers, from most breweries in the Bay Area, and in my opinion, alright, Anchor was one of those dime-a-dozen ones. They followed the trends like everyone else but never made anything stand out beside their California common. Just look at their current uninspiring lineup. I don’t disrespect the people putting in the work to make the beer, but whoever made the decisions in the business failed badly at product development.
Yeah, fair enough any business running for over a 100 years has done something right. However, the amount of (craft) beer competition in the last century just wasn’t even close to the level it is today. In 1978 there were only 89 breweries nationwide. There’s more than that in the Bay alone now. Considering how many really great local breweries and beers are now available, yeah I don’t think their products were good enough to stand out. Then again this is a problem a lot of breweries are having, they are not unique. I never said their beer sucked btw.
Craft beer isn’t new, but it has been building up to this point, especially in the last decade. The number of US breweries has quadrupled in this period and the past couple of years I’ve easily had many of the best and most interesting beers I’ve ever had in my life, often from local Bay Area breweries. That’s all very new, and the “classic” couldn’t compete when there’s better, or let’s say at least more interesting choices available. A more likely story for declining sales than “distribution and marketing issues” for a brand which is far more well-known than almost any other SFBA beer with the backing of a global megabrewer.
There’s too many IPAs though on that we can agree.
Well I just saw the other comment with the vinepair article, and while I think competition from the explosion of craft beers is a part of it, the stories of mismanagement hurt to read :(
Looking forward to try Redox one day. Rustlang is the future.
I hope apps in this new OS can be just a single file package which can be downloaded and run. That’s one major thing which MacOS (and Windows to some extent) got right. Package managers on Linux are a premature optimization dependency hell…
Max Verstappen wins the 2023 Hungarian Grand Prix (lemmy.world)
Would it be worth it to fully upgrade a Squier Bullet? (lemmy.world)
So, like 10 years ago when I got a big amount of money for Christmas, I went and bought my first guitar, which I could really only afford a Squier Bullet. Fast forward to now, I still have this but I also have a Epiphone Les Paul Standard a friend gave me....
Kyiv imposes ban on Russian-language culture (www.dw.com)
Street musicians singing Russian songs in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv could soon face problems. Likewise, bars and restaurants playing Russian background music may end up getting in trouble....
Push for working cameras on Bay Area freeways after 3 shootings in 5 days (abc7news.com)
"Riven" Bloopers Short Reel (www.youtube.com)
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[meme] Trains are 100000x easier to electrify and automate than cars, so why does everyone keep talking about electric and driverless cars? (lemmy.world)
Double Caltrain fatalities (www.axios.com)
When will these NIMBY cities finally approve & fund grade separation of all railroad tracks Caltrain years that date from the 1800s?
$110 billion required to defend SF Bay Area from rising sea levels (hoodline.com)
Bay Area weather — how are y'all doing this weekend? (www.windy.com)
Olof Gustafsson - Pinball Fantasies - Steel Chambers 2 | ProTracker (www.youtube.com)
One of my favorite tracker tunes from the 90s
A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb (arstechnica.com)
An otter in Santa Cruz is hassling surfers — and stealing their boards (www.npr.org)
US inflation cooled in June for the 12th straight month | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Anchor Brewing shutting down after 127 years (www.nbcbayarea.com)
Redox OS elects its first Board of Directors (www.redox-os.org)