I’m also considering just getting a portable, 128GB FLAC player with a minijack connection and moving on with my life without getting involved in networking at all.

Yeah, I’d say that this is definitely the way to go. My .mp3 player only has something like 8 gigs of storage, but it takes a MicroSD card. With a 1 tb card, I can carry all the music I want (and realistically, given that your collection is pretty small, you could get away with a whole lot less than that).

This is why I never bought a domain. Can’t give up on your dreams if you never pursued them in the first place!

I live in a “first past the post” country that forces a two-party system and penalizes voting your conscience unless it aligns with one of those parties. While there may be flaws in Ranked Choice Voting that could emerge in fringe cases, it is so obviously superior to our current system that it is hard for me to worry too much about the nuance of how it might not be 100% perfect 100% of the time. Any (democratic) system is better than what we have now.

I’m fine with language evolving; my issue is that there used to be a word that succinctly conveyed a particular idea, and now there is no way to concisely convey that idea in English.

“Gay” changing its meaning isn’t the same thing, because there are still plenty of ways of saying “happy” in English.

The word “literally” has been forever ruined by people who use it to mean “figuratively.” Worse, there is now literally no way to actually convey the original meaning of the word “literally” in a concise, clear way.

You have to say something like, “A is literally 10 times bigger than B…and I mean that ACTUALLY literally.” And then people will STILL assume that you’re speaking figuratively.

Is it sufficient to set the Enhanced Tracking Protection to “Strict” (which claims to block cross-site cookies in all windows), or is there something else you have to do?

c/dataishorrifyinganddepressing

Even worse is that a disturbing proportion of young men are ACTIVELY supporting the Trump/Vance regression ticket.

No idea, but this just reminded me that I used to have a buddy who wanted to open a milk bar and call it “The Milk Of Human Kindness.”

I was already going to crawl over cut glass to vote for her/against Drumph. Walz doesn’t change anything for me, but if Internet comments are to be believed, picking him does make me slightly more optimistic about our chances come November.

Literally the plot of a dystopian movie from 20 years ago.

I’ll never fail to be amused that ANYONE could claim that Trump has the right temperament.

And when you read their comments, you get through the first few pages and think, “Hey this isn’t so bad.”

And then you get to the part where you’re introducing your original work, and you start to wonder how hard it would be to live on minimum wage.

“But you see, WE can wait another year.”

• Developed countries, probably

You mean that it’s NOT a good idea to move to the middle of the desert, pump in water from afar, and burn up ungodly amounts of fossil fuels in an attempt to stay cool?

Retroactively justifying the existence of vanity plates.

There was a time in my life when I was wary of wearing out certain songs, but now I just play them to death if that’s what I’m in the mood for. Life’s too short to deny yourself the pleasure of hearing a song that you really want to listen to…and if you DO get tired of your current earworm, so much? There’s so much great music out there that it shouldn’t be long before you discover something new that you can immerse yourself in.

Yes, this exactly! I still cannot fathom how Discord took off. It offers literally no advantages over forums, and introduces some massive disadvantages.

“You wouldn’t download a car.”

“You wouldn’t hit mute during the commercials on a television broadcast.”