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If you don’t mind a bit of DIY it wouldn’t be too difficult to remove the frets on a regular guitar (some guitars like Gibsons are trickier than others). You could then fill the fret slot and file it down to the same level as the board for a fretless guitar.

Deadly when inhaled!

I mean, oxygen is highly reactive and damaging. Eventually that kills us too.

Oooh sorry that was a reading comprehension fail on my part. Thank you for clarifying!

Oh no! what has she done that’s bigoted? (I did a quick search and couldn’t find anything).

I enjoy her word nerdery so I’d be disappointed to find out she’s iffy.

I appreciate the balance!

Oh wow I had no idea survivors were forced to give testimonies that quickly. That’s awful.

Right now I’m fixated on the histories of certain music genres, particularly industrial music and doom metal.

“Industrial” as a name came from the record label (Industrial Records) that Throbbing Gristle, an art collective/band from the late 70’s, created. They’re widely understood to be the first industrial band, but the roots for it go way back to the 40’s with musique concrète, a style of music that made use of recorded sounds and noises as part of musical compositions. The album Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed in 1975 also had an influence on the genre: the entire album is composed of looped and edited sounds rather than traditionally-recorded instrumentation. It’s one of the first major albums to treat the recording studio as another instrument, rather than just a means of getting a band’s sound recorded.

Cool! I know nothing about these kits but building them sounds rewarding. How long do you spend on a kit, normally?

I’d love to hear about people’s hyperfixations here.

Oh wow I did not realise it was “collard greens”. I’ve been writing “collared greens” 🤦🏻

The food looks delicious!

No, you were clear. That’s what I understood you to mean.

If you’re getting gcc errors it sounds like the package you’re trying to install contains some c/c++ stuff that needs compiling.

A lot of python packages that rely on things written in c/c++ ship those precompiled, which might account for why it feels easier for you.

Sometimes listening to the song gives me some relief from it, but not all the time.

Yep. I’ve learned that this happening is a good indicator that I’m not doing well mentally and there’s a thing I’m avoiding confronting.

Then I have to play brain detective until I figure out what it is.

Yeah 🫠

Snippets of songs. They go round and around in my head.

I mean, independence is just doing things for yourself. Even if you’re living with parents, you can start with these things:

• cooking your own meals
• buying your own food
• washing up the items you’ve used for cooking and eating
• washing your own clothes
• keeping your room clean

Bonus if you start doing some of these for your parents, too. I’m sure they’ll appreciate it!