WaPo has been quite biased for quite some time. Rather than giving you a fish, another flawed source that’ll also likely fall victim to profit motive, I’d rather encourage you to glean what’s meritable from whatever sources you may encounter.

The tools that best help me do that are the book Manufacturing Consent and a course on logic. I found both online for free and completed them by myself. But, there’s been more value in subsequent group discussion. If you’ve an opportunity to learn as a group then favor it.

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I suggest you buy a pressure washer, a good practice pad snare, and a set of 5A drumsticks.

Learn to read music, rim strike, roll and paradiddle, stick control and technique. Drum sets come and go. But, you can enjoy stick control and technique with a pair of sticks and a brick.

emergency services use the same roads and your protest will kill someone

As soon as law enforcement stops killing us for funsies I’ll start caring about the vague hypothetical that a neoliberal gets hurt by accident.

Test if learning the drums is going to suck or be something that you’ll enjoy by trying to learn to play a basic beat.

Sitting position.

Assume your dominant arm is your right.

Three actions:

1. Left Hand pats the left knee: snare drum
2. Right Hand pats the right knee: hi-hat
3. Right Foot taps the ground: bass drum

Count the beats: Out loud count, at regular intervals, “one and two and three and four and”: four beats counted as eight eight notes that comprised a measure.

Combine the actions with the count:

One: hi-hat and bass

And: hi-hat

Two: hi-hat and snare

And: hi-hat

Three: hi-hat and bass

And: hi-hat

Four: hi-hat and snare

And: hi-hat

Some people can learn this in less than a minute. When I started playing drums it took me roughly ten minutes. If this takes you ten minutes then you’re probably not going to enjoy what comes after.

If you’re faster then that then you should still not begin with a drum set. Instead, buy a snare practice pad and sticks, learn to read music with them, then learn to roll and paradiddle. That’ll keep you busy for a long time. This is how people learn to play with buckets and trash for a set. The expensive drum set comes after learning stick control and technique on the practice pad snare.

Do any holy books actually describe or prescribe ‘praying hands’? If so, what do they have to say about it?

Hinduism originated in the Indus River valley as a collection of oral traditions for a couple millennia. Then, 3000-3500 years ago, the Sanskrit word “namaste”, meaning “bowing to you”, and it’s hands-together pose was documented in what’s today the Hindu Vedas.

In the Vedas it symbolized the connection of the human and divine. Today “namaste” is commonly used as a respectful greeting. Instead of “namaste”, in America we might say, “Thank you for inviting me to your home.”

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terrifyingly wired up with, like, cut up extension cords and chewing gum

They don’t own the truck. Chewing gum won’t vibrate loose; It can be uninstalled quickly for owner inspection and maintenance; It’s AC low amp with a fuse: a reasonably safe and cheap hack job.

The rare owner-operators have the authority and income to make wiser long term choices.

That’s a sleeper cab. The driver knows all about electronics: navigation, communication, entertainment. It’s not surprising that any one of them would have this idea. Most gigs don’t consistently route through parking with this much space.

If we can reason and communicate effectively then we’re much harder to exploit.

Education is priced above the balance of supply and demand because in wider scope it’s more profitable to deny access.

Denial of access to education is a very good way to leave many people with violence as their only practical means of change.

Live for today. Gone tomorrow. That’s me.