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Nothing to do with the CEO making right wing gestures at all..... I did look at a Tesla a few years ago, but the eyewatering price put me off. Since then I've seen reports from the ADAC (https://www.adac.de/news/tuev-report-2025/) that Tesla tops the list in first time TüV failures, with significant structural issues, not just bald tyres or blown bulbs. In his favour, and whatever else you may think of him, you can't deny that he has done an awful lot to mainstream electric vehicles as personal transport. Which is a good thing in-my-humble-would-like-to-have-a-liveable-planet opinion.

Also because if you plug it into a powered mixer you have the possibility of sticking your finger into a 48v live socket at the other end. Probably won't do any harm but it would make your fingertip tingle 😉

Neither am I, but I saw a clip of him answering questions on the plane on the way back from his golfing holiday (or to it, I don't know which way it was going) and he dropped out into standby mode and then seemed to ask "Why, what has Poo-tin done?" It was just a clip, and may have been chosen to show him in as bad a light as possible, but it didn't look like he was all there.

I have a NUX B-2 bug set that has started to whine in the background, any ideas? It really doesn't like my active J-Bass, so I don't use it! My normal bass is a normal P-Bass but could I have broken the NUX by using it with the J-Bass? Or is it just too old to bother clinging on to? It's 2.4Ghz IIRC I do have a Line6 G30 that I could go back to, but I like the convenience of the bug setup and the no need to have something stuck to my board.

Back to T'arriff briefly. I asked about thirty pages ago what the point of tit-for-tat tariffs was. If I as, say America, say I'm going to put 25% extra on all steel imports, what happens if you, as say, the UK, say, OK, it's going to cost you more than us so we're going ignore your willy-waving and carry on with our own lives? Is that seen as political weakness, not joining the bandwagon of tariff stuff or does it have an actual impact on your steel export to me? Simply put, I don't understand the need to put a tariff on something you export to me simply because you are tariffing (sic) something I export to you.

I need some really flat right angle jack suggestions, an I mean really flat, like 5 to 6mm overall height flat, if such things exist.

Hanging Around, Sometimes, No More Heroes, Princess of the Streets, Golden Brown, Something Better Change and for a bit of a change, Mach dich lieber anders tot.

I'm using a TC Electronics Nova Dynamics if that's any help. No longer manufactured unfortunately, but worth looking for SH if you can. IMHO anyway.

I think we killed it, at least, it's not there anymore.

From my impression and I stress that this is only my impression, Germans on the whole are happy with a unified Germany. If we crudely split the country along GDR/DDR lines then there is a sort of underlying resentment, that's not quite the right word but it will have to do, that the GDR has had to pay for the updating* of the DDR, whilst the DDR feel they were ignored by the GDR in that no major companies moved or created jobs in great numbers in the old east. I know people who still refer to the Ossies, so that discrimination is still there. Ossies along with all other eastern Europeans are feckless lazy criminals, when actually they've been ignored by the affluent West. It's going to take a lot of juggling and diplomacy to make it fly, and I for one wouldn't want that job. (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/04/jd-vance-bullying-ukraine-hillbilly-elegy-eastern-europe 7th Paragraph onward specifically) *The Solidaritätzuschlag, the solidarity tax is still being taken to cover that cost, though it has been dipped into for Desert Storm and other bits n bobs. It used to be 7.5%, is now 5.5% and only applies if you earn more than 20K I think.

This has just happened in Germany. The Bundesländer that formed the DDR have overwhelmingly voted for the AfD. The rest of the Bundstag have stated that they won't work with the AfD so those 5 Länder have an officially democratically elected head of state in the Bundestag who no one will work with. They, at the moment, are going to be in permanent opposition rather than having a say. It's beholden to Merz and the SPD to do something to reverse the disenfranchisement of the old DDR that has been going on for the last 30 years, but when and how is anyones guess. That's the perspective of an Englishman living in Germany, BTW, not an expert on German politics.

Nichts auf bassic.de?

https://www.musicradar.com/guitars/would-you-like-to-tune-your-guitar-oh-no-thanks-im-trying-to-give-up-the-tunerette-is-the-healthy-option-for-clapton-and-keef-fans-looking-for-that-cigarette-on-the-headstock-look-and-it-tunes-your-guitar

When did Fender start doing the big under scratchplate routing? Just thinking it may not be a genuine Fender body given the lack of routing. But I'm not a Fender expert by any stretch.

No, I am not buying @Dannygno123's P-Bass to fit in with the look.

I appear to have just joined a Stranglers "Tribute" band.... I was a bit indifferent to the idea initially tbh. I'm aware of them but just the odd song on compilation albums or playlists, but then I started trying to learn the lines. It's given me a whole new appreciation for them and JJ. Are there any decent tutorial/score resources out there for the bass lines? I'm not terribly good with ear learning from record and I like to have something to read along to as I go, in the early stages a least.

Princess of the Streets - Stranglers. It's not terribly complicated and the little runs in it are fun, but it's such a bass driven song there's nowhere to hide if when you fluff it.

Is it as sketchy AF as previously thought?

I can't help with the carnet info, but prebook your Oresund Belt ticket. It makes crossing the bridges a damn sight cheaper than just turning up and crossing them. https://www.oresundsbron.com/en/tickets

Given that he's now talking about pointing Dodge at the Pentagon:""I’m going to tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education … Then I’m going to go, go to the military. Let’s check the military,” the US president told the host from the rightwing Fox News, adding: “We’re going to find billions, hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud and abuse.”" I'd be terrrified that the two term law may be going in the bin. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/09/trump-super-bowl-interview

I've got my enclosure, beautifully packed... Of course, now I've got it it looks far too small, despite me knowing the dimensions of the two things going in it 😉

It's the morning now, and I've had coffee. Or covfefe... Your Tambourinist could look a little more enthused to be there though

I have sort of barrel jacks that have legs on one face, I suspect they're actually surface mount ones, but they have a nut on the outside as well. They will be in less danger of grounding on the case. I was looking for plastic boxes, and aluminium one hadn't occurred to me. Thanks for the help chaps.

I'm looking for something like a Lazy Bear 2 way patch box, https://www.lazy-bear.co.uk/product-page/patchbay-side-load but, not meaning any disrespect to Lazy Bear, or anyone else who makes them, I'm not paying 28 quid for something I've got all the parts for except the enclosure. Which is where you come in, any ideas where I'd get a box from? All the ones my Google-Fu has found are either far too big, or too low to get the jack sockets in. Ideally it would be 50mm x 40mm x 25-30mm. Also, available in the EU without a billion pounds of shipping added Ta everso.

Being sectioned is a horrible thing to happen to you. The hoops to go through to get treatment and be released are convoluted to say the least. My mum was a non-executive director on a mental health board for a while and the days they had sectioning hearings were the days the entire board wanted to be elsewhere. You're stripping another human being of their dignity and liberty for an indefinite period.