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.

Retroactively justifying the existence of vanity plates.

I once had a class where, day one, the professor said something like, “If you don’t want to buy the book, that’s fine with me. I can’t tell you where to find a copy, but maybe one of your classmates can.” Someone raised their hand and started rattling off a few useful websites.

Sounds about right, actually.

I remember reading Stuart Little as a kid and being SO pissed off at the ending. It felt like a massive troll job.

And when I’m in a mixed group of strangers and that 1 person I’m comfortable with, it’s a mixed bag as to which me shows up.

Bonus points: The service has the entire run of a show, but then they remove the whole series when you’re only 3 episodes away from the end.

The real lesson here is that clear, unambiguous communication is key.

I used to live near this Thai place that closed and reopened “under new management” every few months or so. They kept the name and even had the same menus, except sometimes they’d cross out items in Sharpie and write new items in the margin.

It was the best restaurant in town, and I admired their persistence.

It’s so absurd. It feels like half of the websites out there actively don’t want me to visit them.

Don’t forget removing benches so that the homeless can’t sleep on them (capitalist solution, of course).

Good. Fuck 'em.

Only you could be so bold!

No love for DD-YYYY-MM?

This hits me where I live.

This is why I always find a way to decline dinner invitations.

Or like the fly that gets into your car right before you set off on an 8 hour road trip.

My Fediverse experience became exponentially superior once I learned that the default sorting options were a bit shite compared to the alternatives.