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Thread is boring so here’s a hot take

The argument for zipper merging being a faster method of bottlenecking traffic is a circular and illogical one. “The line is shorter” no it’s not, it’s the same number of cars, you still have to wait for every single car to slow to a near-stop to get in. You didn’t magically reduce the time it takes each car to get in the lane just by shrinking the distance of the bottleneck. I’d argue that in practical / functional terms that actually makes traffic slower.

It’s not a distance equation, it’s a speed equation, and when you shrink the amount of distance drivers have to make a decision, you create more delayed / hesitant decisions and slow traffic down even more. If everyone merged early when there’s still multiple car lengths of space, you eliminate that whole process where one driver plays chicken with another driver until the last possible second / gets stubborn and greedy, and blocks traffic trying to cut in front of one more car.

The traffic could feasibly keep moving at 20-30 mph if people just make it their own responsibility to get in when they have space, instead of waiting till they don’t, relying on the courtesy of others, and then holding up the whole line cause they’re mad that Nissan Altima won’t let them in later. So even if zipper merging shrinks the DISTANCE from 2 miles to 1 mile… going 20-30 mph for 2 miles because of less driver conflict is absolutely faster than going bumper to bumper for 1 mile due to more driver conflict.

I get that if everyone is courteous, a zipper merge doesn’t have to ever cause the line to stop. But let’s face it, COURTEOUS zipper merging would never be a thing in real life, it would be people who don’t know how to merge and are way too scared to be close to another car for 2 seconds, competing with people who love to tailgate and are allergic to letting off their gas for a sec and conceding one car.

 

It’s a good argument Dulam!!

 

Don’t know, didn’t read it

 

here's Randall bait:

there's no reason for an electric guitar to cost more than $500. there is no discernable difference in the quality of electric guitars if they're using half decent pickups. the quality of wood in the neck and body, hardware like tuners and saddle, and strap hooks are just there to artificially increase the price with fancy materials like rosewood, ash, and nickel.

 

Yeah that’s what I’m TALKING about Dylan, piss me OFF. Hell yeah.

 

for the majority of guitarists I sort of agree sound wise. For the average hobbyist who doesn’t really need to challenge themselves more than simply playing the chords and some simple leads to songs they like, you’re not gonna notice the difference several hundred / thousand dollars worth in the SOUND of the wood, it’s a subtle thing, I had to buy a mahogany thinline telecaster AND a Vox with a mahogany cab just to get my Tele to sound “thick” enough to play the kinda music I wanna play.

However what you will notice with a much more expensive guitar a lot of the time is they have better quality control and they are usually FAR easier to play than their cheaper sister models, so if you are intent on becoming a skilled guitarist and always raising the bar, or gigging very regularly, getting yourself some pro grade gear is one of the best things you can do for self development

 

Also rosewood feels nice I am better on a rosewood neck, it gives you more friction to just be able to “feel” where you are on the guitar at all times

 

I’ve been looking for a decent telecaster for under $500 and it’s very hard

 

stop this

 

buy a rickenbacker 360 in mapleglo and then try telling me that guitars that cost more than $500 aren't worth it

 

strings vibrate and the pickups send that to the amp. wood doesn't matter like it does on an acoustic. set your action to the appropriate height to be comfortable and a poplar body squire player series sounds 99.9% the same as an alder body fender american vintage series

 

I’ve never owned a guitar.

 

Had a beef quesadilla for lunch.

 

Be real most of us can’t do that lol. I will probably never own a guitar that expensive.

I found a guitar luthier in Vermont who made custom guitars with stuff he came across over the years, sometimes it would be pretty rare shit. In my case it’s a 1972 mahogany thinline Tele body that was damaged that he refinished. He had it fitted with the updated American Standard Tele pickups of that time (I think it was the 2017 model?) and with a full rosewood neck made in the shape of a Tele neck and I fell in love.

The tone has both a (slightly) deeper body than a typical Tele because it’s hollow inside and made of Mahogany but also has a little extra “spank” when you play it rough (maybe a sex thing?) because of the old school cigar box saddle style of bridge. Putting two strings per saddle makes keeping the guitar in tune kind of a hassle - like, if the B string is sharp and i gotta turn it down, I might have to tune the E string up to compensate, even if it was in tune before, to balance the tension. But the TONE of it is fuckin sick and that 1972 style bridge probably matters more to my tone than the wood it’s made of

so anyway this guitar cost me $1050 in 2017 and it was perfect because my insurance only gave me 75% of my original Tele’s $1500 value when it got stolen, yet it bought me a MUCH better guitar. Sometimes the “right” purchase doesn’t have to be the most expensive model. I took a chance on getting scammed, I bought it through the guy’s fuckin eBay store he didnt even have his own website store portal, but Peter Gebhardt (RIP now) was a legit guitar guy and I still love my guitar.

 

this is just wrong, sorry dylan

 

a mahogany guitar sounds different than a alder guitar and than a rosewood guitar. what are we doing.

 

I think you are overestimating the difference in prices of our guitars lol

my tele costs much more than my Rickenbacker does.

 

Nah. 100% disagree. I have recorded the bass to an album on a poplar bass before. Never again. You can’t fucking hear it. I wouldn’t so easily assume the way the sound resonates through the wood doesn’t influence the way the sound vibrations are picked up from the strings, the pickups themselves are literally vibrating at the same time as the strings

 

I feel like in the second pic, you’re more likely to look out the window though which seems nice.

 

Yeah coma you gotta be able to see that beautiful suburbia

 

Vitamin D deficiency is a true danger.

 

ordering pizza, seeing the fellas of the gaslight anthem later. happy saturday gang. remain ultra blessed.