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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's British slang for a pedophile that stands for "Not on normal courtyard exercise". Meaning if they are in prison, they are not sent to exercise with the others as they are at high risk of being beat up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

MPs are guaranteed a pension after spending 6 years in service as an elected MP.

He entered the parliament at age 25, ensuring him a pension since the age of 31. Although he still has to be 55 to actually start collecting it. Considering how long he has been an MP, he's probably looking at pulling in at least 100K/yr from age 55 onward.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (4 children)

This is what baffles me about these papers. Assuming the authors are actually real people, these AI-generated mistakes in publications should be pretty easy to catch and edit.

It does make you wonder how many people are successfully putting AI-generated garbage out there if they're careful enough to remove obviously AI-generated sentences.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Not sure about BPA, but we're closer to knowing what BPA does than what BPS does. We just replaced a somewhat studied plasticizer for an even less studied and understood one. Plasticizers never went away.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Canada has drug ads, but with special rules. You can either mention the drug name or its indication, but not both.

So you'll get ads that say stuff like "Ozempic - ask your doctor if it's right for you" with people happily eating in a coffeeshop. But they won't tell you what Ozempic is supposed to do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I first discovered Brother Ali coming down off a bunch of LSD, and that was some ear candy at the time. He'll always have a special place in my musical heart.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

He probably had to give the cigar back to whoever owned it after the photoshoot was done.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we delete someone else's post?

(Kidding OP, it looks really tasty but definitely not improved poutine)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is not the OG :'( I remember that bathroom, a vaguely yellow tint..

 

Hey,

So I've been working on recording a song and I am trying to get a solo tone similar to the kind of long, sustained, gain-y yet clean sound that The War on Drugs tends to use.

Any suggestions? I'm mostly recording direct input through my pedal board into a tascam sound card. I've fiddled around with my overdrive pedal (Soul Food) but the tone gets too distorted and muddy to give that clean sustain.

Is it time to get a sustain pedal? Apologies in advance if what I'm asking about gear doesn't make much sense..