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…drakes…

…yeah, the slob in that picture is pretty much me and i’m 220 on a bad day: seven-hundred-pound boss fights are much larger…

…i use optical PCM for all my stereo sources; unfortunately with multichannel audio its bandwidth is sufficient only for lossy compression…

…TOSLINK can’t handle atmos bandwidth; you need eARC for uncompressed multichannel digital audio…

…music teaches you to be a good person; financial literacy teaches you to be a tool…

…i shopped a saab 9000 back in '99: ventilated seats, man, pure luxury…

…that’s how we brushed with baking soda when i grew up: pour a little pile into your off hand, wet your brush, dip, scrub, repeat…

…speaking for most of us, just the one…

…either united 93 was shot down or the USAF was incompetent; i put odds on competence…

can != will

…the current regime will continue doing whatever the f*ck they want as long as nobody stops them…

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/04/23/le-twittre

…have you watched any david lynch?..it’s non-linear and interpretive storytelling where the experience of its pieces-and-parts coming together for the viewer are as much what it’s about as any specific narrative; the halfway mark is way too soon for understanding the whole…

…not everyone appreciates that sort of ambiguous media, but some folks thrive on it and by the midway point you can probably tell whether its liminal-singularity thing is your jam…

…if you’re expecting a definitive narrative which makes everything click into place as you watch it, you’ve probably been misled regarding the series and will likely be frustrated by the experience: while a rewatch can open up re-interpretive appreciation, it’s not the sort of thing where a revelatory rewatch is essential to appreciating it…

…oh, now i get it…

…one o’clock and three o’clock taste pretty similar and eight o’clock and ten o’clock are close-enough for most uses…

…i totally thought that was wheat and lentil penne sautéed with crumbled sausage…

…our local grocer stocks vegan gummies; sadly they’re not very good…

…i reset my browser daily, so i only have the past twenty-four hours of browsing history…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2025_Central_Texas_floods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Altar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_Gate

…that’s really only an hour or so of browsing between returning home last night and this morning, not including the bulk of my time at work yesterday…

…i tried to live with public transit in marin county: just commuting to my job was three hours each way, with a very narrow window of opportunity for walking to a grocer at my transfer hub and no recourse on nights when i had to work late…