Recovering academic now in public safety. You’ll find me kibitzing on brains (my academic expertise) to critical infrastructure and resilience (current worklife). Also hockey, games, music just because.
But I don’t want random bandcamp samplings. I mean I like new music and go to a lot of Indy shows, but I want the ability to hear a song I like and then do a deep listen to the artist without committing to CDs or a trip to the library if it’s available.
I don’t disagree with you. But I have a lot of CDs already :) The rationale for me is that it’s all available. I watched a Billy Joel documentary recently (I know 🙄) but it made do a listen through his discography. I’m glad I didn’t buy those. It turns out I already knew the songs I liked and discovered 0 enjoyable deep cuts. But even at $15 a disc that would have been a $200 play through. And yes I’m aware of the high seas and the library.
I pay for YouTube Music and premium gets thrown in for free. Why? It’s mostly momentum.
I used Groove back when that was a thing, and when it folded I could migrate my playlists to YouTube so it was easy and than $10 a month. Now it’s $30 but it’s still like buying a cd a month. I am slowly de-googling and some month will stop using the service. It just hasn’t been a top priority.
“Go #@*! yourself!”
Mus musculus was the one I was thinking of. The -culus is just the diminutive suffix.
Offhand I think that be the case for every/most type species.
Lane assist is an absolute menace. It gets turned off in any rental I get in.
I can see you are a Victorian latecomer. Although the Royal Navy thrived on nerdery.
I’ve already started Hunters of Dune. I am going to do follow up post when I finish it and Sandworms. Spoiler: It is…not great…so far.
People on the spectrum have so many more options now. Back in the day your choices were stamps, coins, or bugs.
Cocaine Bear.
The colors are muddy.
I only went to Wikipedia after I posed this question. I honestly did not know that he had done prequels and side stories. I thought they were all followups. Also he was pushing out one a year? That can’t be good. I might start with the last ones assuming he’s found his stride by then. So library it is.
eta: I also consider the last two books to be the weakest. He could have ended it after GEoD and it would have been a solid series.
It was residential so they were never leaving. There was joy there as well. It was not the most tragic wing of that facility. Health can be hard because you are witness to the worst day of someone’s life. Every day.
Detoxing someone from end stage alcoholism is incredibly dangerous. In comparison detoxing from heroin is not great for the user, but there’s no risk of death. It feels like a really bad flu for 72 hours and a mild flu for another 72.
Why go to the trouble of using something nasty. It’s convenient and non-stigmatizing for the residents. So why not?
My first job in healthcare was in a veterans hospital. There were so many alcohol dependent residents that there was a pub in the basement to dispense the “medicine” and not stigmatize the residents. There was beer on the med carts for those with limited mobility.
Odyssey and backgammon? Could happen.
My class didn’t know who Quentin Tarantino is.