But that’s none of those genres…

I would like their stuff so much more if the nu-metal parts went away.

I am unsure what makes something “Swing”, but I absolutely adore The Roar of '74 by Buddy Rich. I discovered it via my dumb rule of “See vinyl record with car on it, buy vinyl record with car on it”

I wouldn’t say it’s less well-known overall, but for others of my generation, I feel like it is…

I was born in '92. My dad apparently liked Thunderbirds (1965-66), so we had the full VHS set. We didn’t have cable for a LONG time, so my brother and I watched a lot of VHS tapes. We grew to absolutely adore Thunderbirds. Sadly, the VHS set is long gone, but there’s a full rip on the internet archive, so I’ve got it all anyway.

I used to work at a company that had a side-hustle and received large shipments of boxes from China containing the front half and the back half of electronic multimeters. One employee would sit there all day, put the 2 halves together, put 2 screws into it, then toss it in a clamshell pack proudly labeled with “ASSEMBLED IN THE USA” with a big-ass american flag.

This is a hilarious example of “Read headline, formed opinion, investigated no further”

You could probably run a study on this. Call it “Regarding the Leap Year of '45”

Also, I swear I reached this page from the top of a community page, how have I traveled 7 months into the future… Uh oh. (It was probably a cross-post)

I didn’t have depression, but I wanted to try the experience after hearing how much someone I knew enjoyed it. I had a terrible trip (in a safe space, with good intentions, an experienced user I trusted very deeply, etc. etc. etc.) and suddenly developed pretty gnarly depression and felt like an unnamed part of my brain was missing/out of reach for over 2 years… I’m only one data point and my experience seems uncommon, but I definitely won’t be touching shrooms ever again. It’s only in the last 6 or so months that I’ve felt more “myself” and have been making progress out of the hole I was dropped into.

I desperately wanted to be on Figure It Out (With your host, Summer Sanders)

I reference the secret slime action fairly frequently, and it seems that maybe I’m the only person in my area who watched/enjoyed the show, because most people have no idea what I am talking about.

Don’t even get me started on Figure It Out Wild Style.

I signed up for the physical print edition at the tail end of last year. They are excellent reading and I have 0 regrets. Well I do have one regret… Not signing up sooner. I missed the November 2024 publication to tie the whole shit-sandwich together.

Their marketing/member emails are also amazing.

All the browser settings are also stored there, too. I turned all the AI stuff off, then the next time I booted up my PC the AI was back. Turned it off again. Same thing the next time I logged back on…

I finally looked into it and it was because I had firefox set to clear the cache on shutdown.

It can fall under the same umbrella. Unrealistic beauty standards being set by the “rich”, who some people look up to as role models. If there were something that you could do that you might be able to afford, like botox or lip fillers, that you believe would make you more beautiful, closer to your role model… If that sort of thing matters to you, then yeah, you might go for it. I can even take the same analogy of watches above, because there are definitely cheap imitation versions of the gaudy diamond-encrusted ones.

I was sort of thinking more like this though with respect to extreme alterations…

It’s definitely a status thing, but I think the extreme it’s been taken to has more to do with an erosion and warping of reasonable beauty standards than anything. More of an act of “because I can” than anything. I think a lot of the people who you look at and think “what the fuck” actually think they are making themselves more beautiful and attractive. I don’t think someone who has everything and can get whatever they want would purposely make themselves look grotesque, but I’m neither rich, nor a psychologist, so maybe I’m totally wrong…

It’s kind of like how there’s a gaudy stupid looking hyper-expensive version of everything, like those giant hideous watches with diamonds encrusted on every surface… Someone think’s it’s beautiful or shows status, but most of us probably just think it looks stupid.

The Bogdanoffification has been happening for a while…

Part of me wonders what’s next… But that likely won’t be for a very long time, as USB C seems to be pretty good (at least for power-delivery and some decently high speed data transfer), lacking in customer complaints (as far as I’m aware).

I remember getting my first wireless charger with my Galaxy S10e and thinking “This is the future, you’ll never have to plug your phone in again!”… But that certainly hasn’t come to fruition, so I’ll refrain from making bad predictions lol.

Thanks! Also a bit of fun directly responding to the post before it. I was ultimately inspired by the “allure of the pine forest” post from a bit ago, thinking “Hey, I have some photos that look just like this…”

I think I am going to have fun with this (photo from a ~1999 PDA camera module [original resolution])

I am so glad that the USB people got USB C right… I have so many memories of the micro-USB ports on my old phones being the most absolute asinine garbage.

I remember seeing my very first USB C port in 2015, it was on a friend’s new Google Nexus 6P phone, and we were sitting in a hotel room in Florida somewhere… I ended up buying a 6P in August 2016. it was my first smartphone.

What phone do you have? It’s nice to see people who keep their phones around. It’s crazy how much progress was made in the phone world from ~2015 to 2019, but my phone from 2021, a similar 4 year age gap, feels just the same as phones made today. Truly a massive plateau.

Also, 2019 being 6 years ago is giving me serious vertigo lol

Pub cheese would like a word.

For a time in middle school, my brother’s personality could be summed up by “Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919”… He learned it in a book somewhere and thought it was the funniest thing and just brought it up all the time, drew pictures and comics of it, and just generally was a molasses-themed menace.

I’ve been awakened from my house-hunting slumber by a house that has everything I want, and is actually somewhat affordable (compared to other similar properties, but still, yeesh this market)… Except it looks like it hasn’t been cleaned in about 40 years. Going to an open house tomorrow. In all the photos, every single window and door is wide open, so I’m expecting maybe some kind of smell that might change my opinion, but it looks like it wouldn’t be too much effort to clean it up and finally move up from my tiny apartment… I’ll probably get outbid by 30% like the last couple times, but I won’t know until I try!

Also, I think you might be hard-pressed to find anyone who would consider sugary cake sponge to be “bread”. (Something something Ireland’s supreme court ruled that Subway’s bread isn’t legally bread for tax purposes due to its high sugar content)

It’d be like layering up some sourdough slices with sweet sugary icing slathered between them, most people probably wouldn’t call that a cake.

It wasn’t super relevant to the story, but yeah, I could just browse the files right on their PC, definitely a “Not intending to share it for free” kind of situation, completely devoid of any authentication or security.

I’ve actually taken note of my navigational skills over the last couple years… I grew up in one state, and then a few years after graduating college, moved to a different state. When I was growing up, phone navigation didn’t really exist as it does now, cars didn’t have built-in navigation, and standalone navigation devices were slow and not all that great (at least the ones I could afford).

I find that when I return home, even 10 years later, I am able to navigate all the places I used to go unaided with ease, back-roads, niche routes, able to travel for hours without getting “lost”.

When I moved, though, I had very recently gotten my first smartphone, and google maps was very convenient to “learn” the new area. I ended up just continuing to use navigation since it was convenient. I’ve found that beyond the major main routes, I don’t have the same kind of “built-in” navigational skill that I do for my original home-turf. I never really learned the area.

I am moving towards a smart-phone-less life, and I’ve been able to let go of a lot, but GPS navigation remains a sticking point. I need to start training myself to navigate unaided in my current area.