boneman429

boneman429 t1_j1bo694 wrote

Reply to comment by ASecularBuddhist in The Band Aid song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” is offensive, and that was before I saw the cover art 🤨 by ASecularBuddhist

I totally agree: almost everyone will cringe looking at the artwork and the lyrics these days. The peril of simply judging it is that is usually the end of the thinking e.g. I am better than ‘those people’. Not ragging on you I do it too. Let’s take it a little further: very few batted an eye at this when it came out. Why is that? What has changed? Does that mean we really are better? Maybe so; and we should be. We potentially know everything they knew, plus everything that has happened since. Anyway thanks for pointing it out. Gave me an opportunity to think apout it. Cheers

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boneman429 t1_j12gzpk wrote

Reply to comment by Trimanreturns in Steve miller by libertarian1994

Boz and Steve were classmates and started a band together when they were like 12 or 15. Saw Steve w Marty Stuart a few years ago. Outstanding show; under appreciated guitar chops, and no one sounds quite like him.

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boneman429 t1_ixkwk37 wrote

Reply to how do i measure the consistency of artists? by ericrohmerofmath

Simplest measure of consistency would probably be ‘range’ i.e. best minus worst. A better measure is ‘standard deviation’ i.e. average distance from the average score. For something like this, I think I’d use a ‘control chart’ . The lower line on the control chart would be the average rating minus 2 or 3 standard deviations. Higher values of the lower line would mean consistently good

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boneman429 t1_ixizalx wrote

Reply to Good Outdoor Christmas Lights? by heavymetal51

I have a couple hundred HLO C9 leds year round 5 years now. Haven’t lost 1 yet. I did have a socket go bad once. I don’t see the strings I used available any more though. They were heavy white cable 100’ long commercial

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