Depends on the time of day. They wake up American pissed, but after 11am: Both.

when you need to manage mold/fungal growth and too much cover killing grass

"Need to" or " need to " ...

The grass will be fine.

We all live in Ramstein.

The Flying V was Gibson's reaction to the Fender Stratocaster, which was the first electric guitar to break away from the standard hour glass shaped body used for pretty much all string instruments until then. Gibson wanted in on this evolution and chose to go all in with the 3 futuristic shapes Flying V, Explorer and Moderna, while still maintaining the neck-through from the Les Paul and sharply angled headstock.

They did some improvements to the tuner locations on the headstock and made the upper frets accessible by the body shape instead of simply copying Fenders cut aways.

However, all 3 designs failed completely at the time, selling less than 100 pcs. They were too unconventional for the intended market of jazz and blues players, which already had a preference for other Gibson models like the ES series. It didn't really offer anything that didn't already exist. Gibson learned the hard way that the spacey design was not the reason for Fenders success. It was all about the comfort. Gibson later made the SG to address this.

It wasn't until the 1980s that heavy rock guitarists embraced the radical shapes, which was absolutely for looks. Hendrix made a notable live appearances using the V prior to that, but it's well known that he primarily recorded using a Stratocaster. I'd guess he used it live because of the humbuckers being better for that.

Features of a guitar may be patentable.

The entire design is a feature. Take the strat. None of it was accidental or using existing common features when it was designed. I don't particularly like the look of the design, but I can respect that every inch of it has a purpose. My favorite part of a strat is the shape on the bottom back which isn't even visible but makes it comfortable to play in a sitting position or while moving around in a standing position without hitting a sharp edge. The same applies the front top which allows you to rest your lower arm on the body without hitting a sharp edge. The cut aways are self-explanatory but keeping the horns also serves a purpose of balancing the weight and also makes it possible to rest on a leg when sitting. The headstock is ugly big, but it is necessary for the weight distribution.

Both Gibson and Fender had issues with their headstocks. The 3rd. string always goes out of tune before the other strings, because of the distance between the tuners and the nut. Notice the fix by Fender placing a lock on 1st & 2nd strings, otherwise those would be even worse. Musicman solved that by designing a headstock that is even uglier, but actually works by minimizing the distance. They rightfully patented that solution.

The Les Paul design has none of that, obviously because it came first, but also because it's designed for something else completely: Sustain. The entire purpose of the LP design was to make a long, clean and loud tone.

Copying that and slapping a MAGA sticker on it is a fucking disgrace to everything called guitar design. Nobody serious about guitar design gives a fuck about the colour or visual appeal. It'd be even worse if it was the visual aesthetic that was patentable. I'd definitely call dibs on an all black guitar then or the manga shit that everyone is sporting right now. In my opinion that is hardly worthy of copyright.

No, it's per capita.

They're both right. Ennio Morricone did the soundtracks for both films.

I can understand your old man confusing the films. All the 1970s spaghetti western were filmed at the same locations, using the same actors, same writers and the same composer.

He got the composer right though.

Nope.

"Ecstasy of gold" is in the same movie, but this song is called "The Good, The bad and the Ugly - Main theme"

The land owners are expected to voluntary allocate the areas, allowing them to keep the land best suited for their production. However, due to biodiversity requirements, they can't just choose only wetlands. So, nobody knows right now.

In 2023 the municipalities made the following map of potential areas. The green is existing classified forest. The yellow are potential areas.

You've probably already found: https://lemmy.world/c/traditional_art

I think it will require a lot more user interaction before it makes sense to make a new community for discussion of specific styles etc.

It is school yard bullying: "Do what I say or I will punch you".

If UK obliges to that, he's just going to use the same threat over and over.

The latest figures I could find from August 2024 shows that USA imports slightly more from UK than vice versa. It is in balance when rounded to the nearest billion.

Any changes to this would backfire 1:1 on the US.

What's the connection between US/UK trade balance and Netanyahu anyway.

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They're really busy playing on all the keys at once.

I just hope that Newtons 3rd. law works on politics too.

It exists with different spellings in all the Scandinavian languages as well, borrowed from old Saxon.

I'm trying to follow the logic here.

SodaStream ---> Zombie apocalypse

in just one easy step? Sign me up!

Did the doctor not react to your missing reaction?

I doubt any civilisation has made intergalactic travel. There are enough worlds in any galaxy that there is very little purpose in venturing to another galaxy. The distance between galaxies is also insane. Even with faster than light warp speeds it would take thousand of years to reach a different galaxy.