huh - I never thought of it that way but of course it makes total sense.

I love this question - simple but thought provoking!

having gotten zapped by 120VAC and 230VAC I totally agree. the former sucks and is no fun while the latter made me question my life choices

yep, right over my head. thought it was just an old timey nervous reference to pirated music.

yep, my bad. I misunderstood what the program does.

I dislike having to use Spotify b/c of the crap royalties the artists get from it. isn’t this worse for the artists?

we’ll, shit.

guess I’ve got some movies to watch

that’s a Judas Priest song fyi…

https://open.spotify.com/track/2RaA6kIcvomt77qlIgGhCT?si=-vsBVPV2TY2IbCPmkJSkxA

I’m late to the party here, but since I didn’t see it mention elsewhere, I’ll throw up unbreakable with Bruce Willis. given his health conditions, it won’t happen with him but it might be able to happen with somebody else in his place.

I feel like that movie established some solid characters and a somewhat unique case of the every man turned superhero. The whole idea of him just being able to touch someone and then get a glimpse into their hidden life was really cool. Plus there was the relationship with his son, bad guy suffering from that brittle bone disease to contrast with Bruce Willis’s character being, well, unbreakable. it was a good setup I thought for a whole series of films.

zoltan kaszas.

very strong on the fly and always has new material, usually relevant to wherever he’s performing

never understood the hate he gets. I saw that special he did and I really didn’t see anything disturbing.

hysterical and a great human despite difficult circumstances

did you mean Ron White?

that guy is hysterical

come to the US - free sauce packets!

just ignore the chasm of wealth disparity, growing nationalism and maybe being a bullet proof vest. wait… you’re not dark skinned, are you?

/s

I know this post didn’t coin the term 'enshitification", but it really is a great way to describe the monetization of everything that was once good on the internet

I thought he looked a lot like Chris Farley!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Farley_(businessman)#:~:text=He graduated from Georgetown University,and AHL player Tripp Tracy.

Jews call that sadaka. it’s one of the ideas I remember fondly from my early years

many people come back from near death experiences with insight about the whole structure of the universe. one common theme they report is that we all chose the lives we’re living because these lives offered the best opportunity to learn and grow. they say we come back many times until we learn everything we need to.

so, if true, the downside is that you and I will probably be back. but, the upside is that we won’t keep coming back forever and that we can curtail the number of times we will return by being the best people we can and by learning as much as we can.

I’ve always had a niggling worry that downloading apps from 3rd party app stores came with a higher risk of getting apps with viruses and spyware.

any truth to this?

any thoughts on some other sort of remote data backup just in case of fire, water damage, etc? years ago I moved is off of our nas for this reason but at this point on I’m really not happy with Googles process and crappy photos software. I wouldn’t mind moving back to NAS with some cheaper no frills remote backup just in case

I’m a fan of the WHY FILES. hit a similar genre as what you seem to like