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There's a pretty strong argument to be made that pop music has declined in quality a great deal, due to commercial pressures... The drive to more efficiently commodify it over decades has resulted in demonstrably simpler and more generic stuff dominating the charts, and then there's also the fact that the video which goes with it tends ever more to sell the song (consider the difference in accessibility between MTV and YouTube). Folks also tend to listen to music via some relatively crappy speakers these days, with poor to nonexistent channel separation and no bass.

Music per se is totally in a position to be better than ever, but the good stuff is increasingly unlikely to be the most popular stuff.

Is anyone able to refine or distil this sentiment further?

Exterminate the pinstriped barbarians

I'm your baby

Holy shit, I only just noticed the DBX-100 rocks both styles of four! Bizarre.

You only need the cable hole to hold it in the right spot, not so much the part for the head of the cable...

But if it's cracked and deformed there too, my thought was perhaps a route for some wire (around 1mm) could be made through it to hold it together, and the wire could be twisted tight and tucked away on the inner side.

But he fuglied it up so hard, I can't imagine why he'd bother hiding the wires

Neither do I. But how does the motor get juice? Dude surely hasn't gone the hack on the frame to make the wiring internal?!

Easier still, just carefully apply a tight layer or two of sellotape around the crown seat - if you can get the right thickness so that the tape gets compressed without being smooshed down and caught under the bottom face, you're golden. You have to do it in multiples of almost a complete wrap of course, to keep it centred (leave a little gap at the end instead of overlapping), but you can fine-tune the thickness to some extent by the amount you stretch the tape.

Aluminium tape can also work, but without the stretching.

Merits inclusion from bars and stem alone, but that electric crankset is something else... I'd love to see the gap between chainstays and (mismatched) crank arms... Also seems to be wirelessly powered...?

...Ye gods

That looks potentially repairable to me... Bit hard to tell from those pics though.

If you fancy yourself as pretty handy and have a dremel and so on, I could probably offer some advice based on clearer pics.

Choice call

On the other hand, I have no idea what the champ who came up with this was thinking...

It looks like a full dot matrix screen but it's not

Yeah, when I was digging around trying to find watches with a proper dot matrix screen, there were a lot of pretenders... The giveaway is the seven-segment shape of the numbers instead of something nicer.

masking up as black people just a few years ago

Us colonials can be backwards as fuck...

There was a Saturday night variety show last century that went for decades and was hugely popular... Then in 2009 there was a couple of reunion specials, and talk of it restarting a regular run, but that ran off the rails when we totally mortified Harry Connick. We didn't realise what racist fucks we were until the internet, with half of us still refusing to smell the coffee to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaCy0v_1SXM

Who are all those people?
JP
DT
Spiderman
Aslan
Sponge Bob's boss
Jesus
White Fang
Superman
The facts-don't-care-about-your-feelings guy

That's not Jesus; it's Supply Side Jesus, sometimes seen carrying an assault rifle. And Superman I get, but there's no fucking way Spiderman is a Republican

posh tubs

Be mad to bother with em these days if they weren't posh, but I sure wish mine had butyl tubes... latex is just silly.

Tidiest clusterfuck I've ever seen

Larger hydraulic quick couplers, like you find on hammer attachments for excavators and so on, tend to lose a smear's worth when the coupling is fitted or released; can't see why these should be any exception

There, but for the grace of God etc etc etc...

But if we get some enjoyment from pointing and laughing, and we're not actually vilifying or making vilification of unfortunates more likely, where's the harm?

Okay, not a monostay, but come on, that seat cluster!

Whoah, fancy AF

Wow! Love how it has a speedo - what's the max speed on it?

Hang on a sec, couldn't you say that folks without a physical disability who build hideous bikes have an intellectual, or at least, aesthetic disability?

In a sense, this thread is totally about making fun of the disabled.

Hot damn