I stopped using Spotify long ago because of their shitty business practices. Producing a product they killed support for within just a couple years without reimbursing customers and producing huge amounts of e-waste. Jacking their subscription prices twice in one year. Apparently, they also donated to Trump despite not being an American company?? That’s to say nothing of their shitty recommendation algorithm, which just plays your most played tracks over and over. Good riddance.

For those interested, I use Tidal now. I’m satisfied with, their recommendation algo is fine and the higher quality streaming is really nice but nothing I’ve used has ever been as good as Google Play Music, I found so much good music though that service and could upload whatever I was missing. Once Tidal inevitably pisses me off, I’m going to move on to self hosting.

Does green apple count? It feels like an adjective but considering there’s “green apple” flavored candy, I’d consider it a part of the noun.

Somehow I read “execute” and had fully accepted my fate before I realized it said “excite”

Holy crap, this is ancient internet history! I remember this from high school.

I never knew just tuck was something somebody could actually do and now I’m scared…

I’ve been saying for the past decade that I think the federal government holds way too much power and needs to dissolve. The country is too big for how centralized the power is and the states cannot effectively satisfy their constituents’ needs when they’re so beholden to federal interests. I love the state and city that I live in and I don’t want to have to move across the world in order to live somewhere with sane politics but I’m sick of progress here being delayed because so many of our resources are going to the federal government and being compromised by the interests of the other 98% of the country.

This made me think of that time my partner’s brother told me in complete earnest that he’d be able to jump off a skateboard going 20+ mph and run it out based solely off the fact that the fastest recorded human running speed is 28 mph and therefore he, an average fit 20 y.o. should be able to achieve 75% of that.

So the snakes that come up from the sewer can escape when the lid is closed.

Encryption should be no more a crime than locking your house or storing your valuables in a safe.

We’re hardly even three months in… We’ve got a loooong way to go before even the midterms.

Unlike Amazon and all the other giant tech corporations?

I just go directly to the company’s website and go from there. Usually it’s the same price, on rare occasions it’s a few dollars more but to me it’s worth it not to do business with Amazon. I’ve passed up on buying things entirely because they were only available on Amazon.

In fact, over the last couple years I’ve been transitioning from buying online to buying from small-business brick and mortar stores. Sure it’s less convenient but it’s also less wasteful, it keeps resources within my local economy and I’m buying a lot less junk that I don’t really need.

Yeah, it makes perfect sense on phones. But for whatever reason the disconnect between the trackpad and laptop screen really screws with my brain. It’s like if you tried to drag the scrollbar and it went in the opposite direction you’re dragging it.

“Natural scrolling” or whatever it’s called with track pads on laptops where the scroll goes the opposite way your fingers are moving. I don’t know why that’s the default, it makes no sense.

I hope it’s not retroactive because I’d probably be fucked by the countless terms and conditions I’ve mindlessly accepted.

Her parents sound like dick heads. You’re 22 and you already run your own successful business? Ignore the elitist dick heads and carry on with what you’re doing. It sounds like you’re doing great!

I think more often than not people default to monogamy because that is the only moral framework in which our society generally finds intimate relationships acceptable. As a result of monogamy’s monopoly on intimate relationship structures, possessiveness and extreme jealousy in response to threats of non-monogamy are normalized and are almost considered a virtue depending on the context.

I think that what you’re describing is not conducive to monogamy but rather secure and trusting relationships in general. I think many people tend to assume that quality exists within monogamous relationships whereas they assume non-monogamous relationships to be more frivolous.

Would you expect an unwanted pregnancy to be handled inherently better simply because the relationship of the parents is monogamous. I would think that’s entirely up to the strength of the relationship and the maturity and means of the people involved, regardless of orientation.

Similarly with communicable diseases, I don’t think non-monogamous people are any less capable of practicing safe sex with people that they trust. Of course, it would make intuitive sense that the more people you’re exposed to the higher your chances are of contacting something but in reality there is no significant difference in the rates of contacting a disease between monogamous and non-monogamous people.

I’m not saying monogamy is amoral, only that I argue with the general belief that it is the moral standard for intimate relationships.