Absolutely not. Your fingers will develop the hard skin necessary to play for extended periods. Just trust your body's ability to adapt and stop when it starts hurting. Using superglue or any other kind of protection only puts off the inevitable, and opens you up to other risks like accidentally supergluing your fingers together.
If you really can't cope then guitar is not for you.
Music. Way too many albums are that one decent song you hear on the radio and 38 minutes of filler shite, and you could never take it back to the shop to get a refund for being full of shite. So all my music is pirated first, purchased second, and anyone that objects to this is basically admitting that their industry is based on selling shite that can't be refunded.
Because it's much easier to get angry about misleading headlines. Comprehension is difficult.
This sounds reasonable, but the logical conclusion of that is that the only people that associate with Nazis are other Nazis, or future Nazis (who may not realise it yet). This normalises nazism in a growing group of people because they don't have any moderate voices highlighting their more extreme thoughts and pulling them back towards normality.
Your argument also make the false assumption that Nazis are irredeemable. I'm sure some of them are. But I'm equally sure that at least some of them aren't.
At this stage it's more about proving we can organise, rather than actually denting anyone's profits or inconveniencing ourselves. Let's all agree not to buy anything on this one day, as a first step. Next we'll organise not buying on two days. Then maybe a week. Then steadily ramp it up until we're noticed and they start doing something about it.
Refusing to participate on the grounds that it isn't the perfect solution is short-sighted.
Are there any specifics about this? It all seems fairly theoretical to me. What do they [want to] do that contradicts "doesn't sell your personal data" within the context of the fluid definition of "sell"? Do they sell my personal data or don't they? What definitions of "sell" are relevant here?
It's all sounding a bit Bill Clinton to me: "it depends on your definition of 'is'."
Well for one 6% of the country is now Muslim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_Kingdom
And that's not the only foreign religion that thrives here. Our last PM (Rishi Sunak) is Hindu, and Keir Starmer is an atheist.
We have numerous parades for the LGBTQIA+ communities (which is a substantial shift from how we treated Alan Turing just a few decades ago), [pro-]Palestinians shouting "from the river to the sea" calling for Israeli genocide (that is: genocide of Israelis), etc.
Seems to me we're one of the most tolerant countries on the planet. Of course there are plenty of intolerants around the place but you'll find them in every country. And the Last Night of the Proms jingoism harks back to when Britannia ruled the waves and misty-eyed dreams of Making Britain Great Again. But the day to day reality of life in the UK is that anyone from anywhere can make it if they get a lucky break.
The question doesn't directly apply because I'm not an ex-believer, but I am sort of ex-church (attendance).
After years of praying for healing, for myself and others, and seeing nothing happen (beyond the natural healing that would have happened anyway had I not prayed for it), I prayed for someone to be healed and he died.
So that's how healing manifests through me. You aren't or you die. This seems in direct contradiction to Jesus' claim that all who follow him will do greater things than he did, which I interpret to mean at least the same as what he did, one of which was that everyone who came to him got healed.
So my church attendance is on hold for now while I work out why God doesn't want to involve me in his work. I'm still a believer, but obviously I can't preach "God heals" when my only direct evidence is that he doesn't. I'll go back when it's clear what he wants me to do.
Maybe one approach could be to avoid American wherever possible, but without inconveniencing yourself too much. So for example only buy on Amazon after you've tried to find other suppliers first. And yes definitely figure out how American any given product is, check the alternatives and buy the lesser of the available evils.
Popups demanding I join newsletters, engage in chats, review your site, etc. Make that stuff available on the menu and I'll have no problem with it. Shove it in my face as I'm loading your site and I'll likely just close it straight away. Some pages are just one popup after another with absolutely no thought given to the UX. The users want your content, not your popups. And what if after using your site for a bit I actually do decide to join the newsletter when the only reference to it is the popup that I already dismissed?
Divs sliding into position as I scroll through the page annoy me intensely. When I see a page doing that I'll autorepeat PageDown to the end, then go back to the top. What is even more irritating and page-close-worthy is when those divs still insist on sliding into position after they've already done that.
Sound effects. Just NO NO NO NO NO. Sound effects are not the answer. Sound effects are the question. The answer is NO. I can see the point of sound effects in a chat, IF AND ONLY IF YOUR PAGE DOESN'T CURRENTLY HAVE FOCUS. But please don't bleep ping bing and bong every time someone presses Return. And test your sfx on decent speaker systems, not all of use have tinny 1" speakers; I have a decent hifi woofer and some of those bass drops really shake my room and I can only imagine that they were tested on crappy little speakers.
Spamming my screen with ads, obviously. You can have a single static ad that doesn't bounce around the screen, demand I punch some stupid monkey, vibrate, flash etc. And of course that ad has to be legit. There are still far too many ads that lead to scams and other malware. Stack Exchange is one of the few pages that get on my whitelist because of their advertising policy.
Give new fads time to settle down before you spam your site with the latest whizz bang animation. Yeah sorry that means you aren't going to be able to play with all the new toys. But your users will thank you. If you must use the latest CSS tricks then use it judiciously on one or two gadgets instead of applying it to "*".
And of course as you've already alluded make sure you use standard user interface gadgets correctly. Checkboxes are checkboxes and radiobuttons are radiobuttons. They are not the same as each other. They are also on/off. If you need tristate or more then you need something else.
Early CRTs were round, like in the Manchester Baby computer. They got squarer as they started being used for TV, more so as the scanning technology improved. You'll see early TVs from the 50s or so looking very squircular.
No, that would only "protect" your strumming hand and would do nothing for the other one. Besides finger/fingernail strumming/plucking/slapping/etc are useful techniques in addition to picking.