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Merry Christmas!

In the New Year, my resolution will be to do more video. Play with @grok Imagine, keep adding new skills.

Not sure what the best aspect ratios are, Grok said vertical or square. Cool...

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@elonmusk Cool

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@WallStreetMav We will be leaving this planet sooner than anyone thinks. Humans will bring the exact same problems with them.

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@prodnose Alice Cooper could have been a king, but he saw that our culture crucifies them, so he chose to be a prince. Can’t really blame him.

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Never get tired of this, it's our heritage...Germanic, is Germanic...

Scandinavian folk song played on a NyckelHarpa, origins of the string instrument dates back to the 15th century.

Folk Artist: Myrkur

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Fun

[Bilinmeyen Gerçekler @iyiTriloji]

Cep telefonu kullanımı bundan daha iyi anlatılmadı

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@SamaHoole I love that ‘fruit is bait with a seed inside.’ Brilliant. It’s all brilliant.

But tell me more about “Olive oil is a seasoning the Mediterranean cooked in lard beside.”

Do you mean to say olive oil is like a spice that garnishes proper lard?

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@DrEtiquette I lost everything during Covid. It definitely shocked me how quickly everyone entered mass formation and embraced full fascism. The anti free speech stuff, I wouldn’t have thought possible.

I lost instagram because of this:

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@elonmusk @Airte747 Exactly

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I’m such an insomniac for this stuff!! I find the evolution of tech extremely interesting, not just guitar stuff, but cars, computers, even humanity.

Last night I started Plutarch’s Lives, and I was up later than I had yet been since my son was born. So interesting!

[Namracka @namracka]

The Evolution of Guitar Overdrive and Distortion, 1951-2026

Distortion began as an equipment limitation and became one of electric guitar’s defining sounds. Driving an amplifier beyond its linear range alters the waveform, adding harmonics and compression. The goal eventually became control over breakup.

In 1951, Willie Kizart’s guitar on Jackie Brenston’s “Rocket 88” became an early recorded example of amplifier distortion. In 1958, Link Wray deliberately damaged a speaker to create the abrasive sound of “Rumble.” Faults became effects.

Gibson introduced the Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone in 1962. Its three germanium transistors made fuzz reproducible without damaged equipment. The two-transistor Arbiter Fuzz Face followed in 1966, sensitive to guitar-volume settings. Electro-Harmonix introduced the Big Muff Pi around 1969, using cascaded gain and diode clipping for dense distortion and extended perceived sustain.

Amplifiers evolved alongside pedals. Marshall’s JTM45 debuted in 1962, helping establish British tube overdrive. Fender amplifiers, including the 1963 Vibroverb, also broke up when driven hard. Master-volume designs later enabled preamp saturation at reduced volume. The Marshall JCM800 range, introduced in 1981, became a hard rock and metal mainstay.

Pedals brought different clipping behaviors to manageable volumes. The MXR Distortion+ used an operational amplifier and germanium clipping diodes. BOSS introduced the OD-1 OverDrive in 1977 and DS-1 Distortion in 1978. The Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer and Pro Co RAT entered production in 1979. The TS808’s reduced bass and emphasized midrange helped tighten an overdriven amplifier. The RAT combined heavy clipping with a variable treble-cut Filter control.

Purpose-built high-gain amplifiers expanded in the 1980s and 1990s. The Soldano SLO-100 arrived in 1987, followed by Mesa/Boogie’s Dual Rectifier in 1992. Cascaded gain and filtering increased saturation without muddy bass.

Digital processing changed access to these sounds. The Line 6 POD popularized amp modeling for direct recording. Fractal’s Axe-Fx followed in 2006, Kemper’s Profiling Amplifier in 2011, Neural DSP’s Quad Cortex in 2021 and IK Multimedia’s TONEX pedal in 2023. By 2026, analog pedals, tube amps, digital models and amplifier captures coexisted.

Overdrive generally describes gradual, touch-responsive clipping. Distortion tends toward heavier clipping and compression. Fuzz can approach square-wave or gated behavior. These are overlapping descriptions, not rigid circuit categories. Clipping adds harmonics; filtering before and after clipping determines which frequencies saturate and how the result reaches the speaker. Even symmetrical versus asymmetrical clipping changes harmonic content.

The central advance was control over gain, harmonics, filtering and playing dynamics - not merely more distortion.

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@Theo_TJ_Jordan Bro!! Oh no. 😬

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@RobertoMaro29 Yeah exactly! So fast!

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This is the moment, where you can literally see him putting his body in front of his kid’s. His kids eyes clearly seen behind him.

Never, ever, give up your guns. No one but YOU will ever be able to protect your children like this.

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Dashcam camera captures attempting hijacking and 3 rotten apples sent back to the maker for factory reset.

6 Golf balls freezing
Communities feeding scheme
3 innocent cows will lose their lives.

Going to the range often helps a lot.

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@Object_Zero_ Yay, gigantic urban sprawl.

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@Oilfield_Rando @SC_Golfer Nice.

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It would 100% depend on context. For funding and logistics to be executed immediately for an afternoon mayday, just 6. If we have a larger audience, or a million other reasons we go more (or less). These questions are an audience question. Always play your strengths. If you’re good at number crunch, own it and crunch some numbers for the interviewer. If you’re good at making money, show how. Good at production? Show how. Sell your answer. There’s unlimited correct answers.

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@MerriamWebster Well you’re just ‘chalk full’ of helpful hints, aren’t you? 😆 😆 😂

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@LaNativePatriot Omg, would someone please throw him in the river already. Wtf?

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