Me too, but it’s better late than never

I get that people think that but it’s a stupid take really. Hearing loss is a big contributor to senility.

There are bands I wish I got to see live, but not many who I wish were still creating music - because bands generally break up when the members change and grow apart and they can no longer make the music they came together to make.

Just like a once great TV show that jumps the shark, we should applaud when a band decides that their creative race is run and they call it quits.

On that, I wish I’d seen (or even knew about) The Dillinger Escape Plan in their day. I wish I’d seen RATM live.

Edit: I just remembered another one. I saw this little domestic band, Horace Bones, play one of the smaller rooms at a festival once. Their set was absolutely amazing, and while their one album is good, it’s not like the live experience they put on that day. They played one or two more shows after that festival then disappeared, just ghosted their socials etc. I still have their tshirt from that gig.

It’s strange that you said that and then said you liked fury road. I thought fury road was the epitome of spectacle and production value with actual value.

The original Star Wars movies were probably really good and genre defining in the late 70s, but they’re just boring and campy now.

If they believe in pretty much any laughably stupid idea: ghosts, astrology, anti-vax, religion, etc

I’m slightly baffled by all this. I’m scheduled to get my line upgraded to be able to handle 100mbps in 2025 and I’m currently able to get 48mbps which costs me about USD55/mo. I only got the upgrade from 8mbps in 2019 (stupid conservative govt). While I’m looking forward to the better connection, I don’t really find a problem with 50 at the moment. I work from home, I stream multiple instances of media, I torrent things sometimes. I think I’m on an cap of 1tb but tbh I’d have to check if that’s what it still is, I haven’t looked for a long time.

They don’t want you to figure out something that they couldn’t. I can admit I’ve been there.

I think there are different aspects. I know how to use that, I’m an IT professional, but people are always asking me “how to do X in Y app” and I have NFI, I don’t use most of the apps and have no plan to.

I’m a man and I’d much rather smell like vanilla and passionfruit. I don’t need more help to smell like fuel.

Have you tried not pooping for three days?

Sporting clubs and club style gyms. I used to powerlift at a club and met lots of people.

Kombucha is a good replacement for soft drink and it’s really easy to make at home. Get a big glass jar (I do mine in batches of about 4L/1 gallon). Boil your 4L of water in a big saucepan, add a cup of white sugar, and about 6 tea bags. After it’s boiled take the tea bags out and let it cool to body temp. Add it to your big glass jar and add a starter scoby (they’re like $10 on Amazon). After about 5-10 days you take the Kombucha out of the big jar and put it into small bottles, I use swing top beer bottles. Leave the scoby and a little bit of liquid in the jar for your next batch . You can add something to the bottles for flavour and secondary fermentation at this point, I use 50ml of cordial. Leave the bottles for a few days and then consume.

I have mine running perpetually and consume about one bottle a day. As soon as I bottle some I put more tea in the jar. It’s costs maybe a dollar or two per batch.

Zip files aren’t very secure by default, however you can specify better encryption with better zipping tools. It would be more accurate to say you should put the content into an encrypted archive file.

True, but physical access to phone lines is trivially easy.