Clones and copies?

Sascha Franck said:
Sarcasm is nothing I can deliver. Just cheap attempts at humor, if at all.
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spawnofthesith said:
Pretty much a non sequiter, but I have a deep desire to visit Thailand mainly for the cuisine… (scenarie a bonus too) but unfortunately some questjons get raised about a single white male traveling to Thailand on vacation :rofl
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Sex Tourism is creepy as F and borderline Adult Ongoing Incel-itis territory if you ask me. :whistle

Not enough condoms in the entire world for that shit! :facepalm
 
I've heard "food poisoning" in strange locales often has more to do with our
microbiome being different than a Native person's microbiome. Locals are not
avoiding getting sick by not eating. They just have the kinds of flora in their
gut that allows to NOT get sick---unlike the non-locals. :idk
 
la szum said:
I've heard "food poisoning" in strange locales often has more to do with our
microbiome being different than a Native person's microbiome. Locals are not
avoiding getting sick by not eating. They just have the kinds of flora in their
gut that allows to NOT get sick---unlike the non-locals. :idk
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Maybe? Dunno. But their microbiome kicked my ass up and down the Great Wall (which was really cool, btw)
 
I missed the last several pages of whatever is being discussed so this is on topic.

I don't like straight up clones that are ripping off the circuit and design of the pedal. To me that feels like supporting intellectual theft and undercutting someone's design work. I also think most of those cheap import clones are low quality and I'd rather not have that crap in my signal chain.

I don't mind a clone that builds on the work of the original pedal though. Take for instance the NUX Ace of Tone which I had for a minute. It's a Tube Screamer and Blues Breaker in one pedal with a bunch of mods you can switch in and out. Or variations on existing pedal designs like the Morning Glory or MXR CBMOD.

When a pedal is unobtainable then clones make a lot of sense, like the Klon. Also when a pedal has been cloned to death the cat is out of the bag already, like the Tube Screamer.

I do love how builders like Analogmike and Paul Cochrane licensed their designs to MXR to build pedals at a large scale with good quality and reasonable prices. That to me is a great middle ground where everyone benefits.
 
la szum said:
I've heard "food poisoning" in strange locales often has more to do with our
microbiome being different than a Native person's microbiome.
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Defenitely this. But apparently you can kinda help yourself to get there.

A good mate of mine had some longstays in India. And he said he just couldn't stay away from street food, even in some rather dubious places (which I can perfectly understand). So his "trick" was to fly to Mumbai or New Delhi, head over straight to the next street market and get a whole lot of local street food. Then he would just go to the hotel, the only ones he booked beforehand because he wanted to make sure the sanitary situation was great - which apparently was absolutely required. On one visit, he said he couldn't leave the toilet for like one entire day nonstop (as in not even making it to his bed). Then things got better, he had some electrolyte drinks to recover more quickly, and after some days it was just over and he didn't have any issues anymore for months he was spending there.
I think he's done it like that 4 times by now, and apparently it has always been the same success story.
 
Sascha Franck said:
Defenitely this. But apparently you can kinda help yourself to get there.

A good mate of mine had some longstays in India. And he said he just couldn't stay away from street food, even in some rather dubious places (which I can perfectly understand). So his "trick" was to fly to Mumbai or New Delhi, head over straight to the next street market and get a whole lot of local street food. Then he would just go to the hotel, the only ones he booked beforehand because he wanted to make sure the sanitary situation was great - which apparently was absolutely required. On one visit, he said he couldn't leave the toilet for like one entire day nonstop (as in not even making it to his bed). Then things got better, he had some electrolyte drinks to recover more quickly, and after some days it was just over and he didn't have any issues anymore for months he was spending there.
I think he's done it like that 4 times by now, and apparently it has always been the same success story.
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Maybe someone could make a killing marketing and selling regional pro-biotics and local microbiomes you
ingested at home a day or two before your travels. :unsure:
 
Eagle said:
One mistake that I have made myself is you are told not to drink the water then you forget and brush your teeth with it.
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I did that on my one and only trip to Mexico. The day we flew back was absolute hell, sick as a dog sweating with chills and couldn't eat or drink anything. I looked odd so the Mexican airport security picked me out of the line and had me rip apart all my bags. We not only had two flights back home but a 6-7 hour layover in Atlanta between. Ugh.
 
la szum said:
Maybe someone could make a killing marketing and selling regional pro-biotics and local microbiomes you
ingested at home a day or two before your travels. :unsure:
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More like a month or two. The last thing I want is to get stomach or intestinal sickness from a supplement right before getting on a long haul flight!!! :barf
 
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Cancun was stunningly beautiful, like a postcard the entire time. It was really stressful though not speaking Spanish and having to monitor what you ate/drank/did like a hawk. I'd probably go for Miami or something like that instead.
 
So speaking of clones..., what about @Eagle 's guitar copies? The average person down the line won't be able to tell it's not the real thing, so how does that fit in to the discussion? Asking for a friend. ;)
 
la szum said:
I've heard "food poisoning" in strange locales often has more to do with our
microbiome being different than a Native person's microbiome. Locals are not
avoiding getting sick by not eating. They just have the kinds of flora in their
gut that allows to NOT get sick---unlike the non-locals. :idk
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I'm 50% Syrian, born and living in Vienna, Austria, and I'm usually pretty tough when it comes to bad food over here, but during visits to Syria (haven't been there since 2009, sadly) I got destroyed EACH TIME.

Ice cubes and salad/vegetables are the "classics", and raw meat, despite the fancy restaurant I ate it at, was HORRIBLE, and knocked me out on the couch for a week, with a fever and regular very urgent toilet visits. Went through various meds and nothing seemed to help.

That said, it was a beautiful country back then, friendly and welcoming folks, as long as you avoid the tourist traps, and the food (excluding the above!) was INCREDIBLE.

Bummer travelling there still isn't something I'd recommend at this point. Could take another decade...
 
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la szum said:
I've heard "food poisoning" in strange locales often has more to do with our
microbiome being different than a Native person's microbiome.
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That's 💯 % accurate. I worked in Cairo for a total of 4 months over a 3 year period. My early trips kept me eating in the well-known / high-end eateries that catered to travelers. By the end of assignment, I could eat from just about anywhere in Egypt without issue.
 
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