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  • I have been experimenting a ton with picks in the last few months. I bought three Bluechips, an assorted pack of TUSQ picks, and Taylor’s “Darktone series” pick tin.

    My favorites are, in order:

    1. Dunlop Tortex. Old reliable. Just feels like home.

    2. TUSQ picks. They are the most resonant picks I have ever used; they make month old strings sound like a fresh set. They also come in three different sound profiles, bass-heavy, treble heavy, and “warm” i.e. mids heavy. The differences are noticeable, and it feels like having an analog way to EQ my guitar. For the money they are the best

    3. Taylor Thermex Pro from the Darktone series pick tin. It is the pick that gets closest to the sound of a fingernail

    4. Bluechip - fancy but kinda underwhelming. They are definitely great picks but I’m not feeling the hype after using them for three months













  • Socialism is the means of production being owned by the workers, if you think that that’s communism then I don’t know what to tell you.

    Yes, that is communism. In communism also, workers control the means of production. Socialism is supposed to be the transitionary stage - where a revolution has happened, a post-revolutionary state has been built, but a classless society has not yet been achieved. A communist state is supposed to be a quasi-utopia where all the contradictions of capitalism have been overcome; there is no class, no private property, no religion, and so on.

    Or at least this is what the word communism means in Marxist theory. Others may use it differently.