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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to design a social media app or service that rather than focuses on farming engagement, it tries to promote quality content?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s meritable often isn’t popular. By what metric should comments be rated?

  Many will rate high. By what means can the set be further narrowed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do airplanes have big front "headlights"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Expired VFR pilot here.

  When driving at night a car has lights on the front, sides, and rear. All of them, including the headlights, are present so that others can more easily maintain visual seperation from that car to avoid a collision.

  Aircraft have lots of incredible technology and talented air traffic controllers that help keep pilots and passengers safe. But, with a single exception, pilots will ignore everyone and everything to maintain visual seperation.

  The exception is a TCAS RA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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.”