Just Linux usually.

GNU/Linux if I need to differentiate most Linux distros from non-GNU OSes using the Linux kernel such as Android, Chrome OS, and Alpine.

American TV and movies after the '00s. Not representative enough of normal American life to be relatable (which is why I like '90s and '00s American TV so much) and not original enough to be interesting (which is why I’m into anime.)

If Stone Temple Pilots ever does that acoustic tour focusing on their softer songs they cancelled due to COVID (they’ve toured since but not that particular idea.) Perdida is one of my favorite “post-prime” albums from any band, and in general STP’s softer material is what makes them one of my favorites.

I’ll go to see My Chemical Romance if they put out a new album.

David Gilmour.

Weezer in a theater (I went to the Hella Mega Tour but Weezer I’ve heard is way better in a theater than an arena.)

I’m an apatheist. Just don’t try and force me to care about your religion or lack thereof.

Uncommon in my culture: Makoto (disclaimer: I think Makoto might still be more common in my culture than my real name)

Uncommon in general: Kitty

I’m not sure I’d call this “cheaping out” but unless you can’t even afford that or you have a specific reason you need a more expensive one, you should buy mid-range ($200 - $400) phones. The early '10s are over and mid-range is more than adequate for the average phone user. Plus quite a few mid-ranges still have expandable storage and/or headphone jacks.

All of the sixth gen ones. Dreamcast, PS2, OG Xbox, GameCube.

Also SNES and 3DS.

I think it’s a coin flip. You could point to ten reasons it’s “obvious” Trump will win and I could give you ten reasons it’s “obvious” he won’t.

Until it actually boils over or we get rid of first past the post (and you’ll need MASSIVE protests to do the latter.)

Fuck accelerationists. They’re either dumbfucks who think their Apocalypse Badass Man fantasies will come true (and contrary to popular belief this person absolutely exists on the left,) or yuppies who know they have an easy out in the form of either a work visa in somewhere like Canada or leeching from a developing country working remotely and not contributing to where they live at all (and so many of these yuppies are self-proclaimed collectivists.) The rest of us are getting out of here in a casket or a refugee boat if it boils over. So how about we take at least a modicum of effort to take care of our society. Voting is the bare minimum.

All rhythm games and fighting games.

I’ll vote for a non-Zionist candidate in the primaries with no real expectation of them winning. But I will vote blue no matter who for national and state politics, and Working Families Party for local if any run.

Is “Genocide Joe” an accurate nickname? Yeah. But fuck that, it’s not like Trump will be any less zionist and third parties/independents don’t work in FPTP. I’m mixed race, I’m bisexual, I’m worried about worst case scenarios with a second Trump presidency (which is basically “what Trump is saying out loud” at this point,) and I am willing to vote in enlightened self-interest.

Metaverse. People literally only ever cared because Mark Zuckerberg was talking about it.

It’s always the fuckin’ IQ tests with our friends in the “more civilized” world.

Those of us who don’t live in an “out of sight out of mind” fairytale and aren’t ignorant of the world enough to not realize the Internet has become an essential utility now, know that this would harm many of the groups negatively affected by hate speech probably more than hate speech does; many oppressed minority groups do not have access to quality education. Some of us are from countries or of ethnicities that have history with minimum IQ requirements for, say, voting. To say nothing of how IQ tests contain Western cultural biases and might not even actually be good at measuring intelligence.

This sounds like the soundtrack to an action-cyberpunk reinterpretation of Ed Edd n Eddy that still maintains the slapstick element

I remember one particular year (I want to say 2019???) I saw a huge presence of people taking NNN seriously and connecting it to NoFap, when in years past and years since I’ve only seen it as a joke.

That and a few other things (it was the same year the Unabomber was a huge meme) I can’t help but think was a psyop.

Worst for the world was Bush (so you could say Bush was more immoral) but worst for America was Trump (so you could say Trump failed at his job harder.)

Bush’s actions killed a staggering number of people on flimsy evidence.

Trump changed phrases like “balkanization of the United States” and “Second US Civil War” from far-off possibilities and fun speculation to serious concerns.

Blend S. The theme song and associated meme is all this show has going for it. (In fact the theme song’s first few seconds contain the whole point honestly.)

Believe me, I’m not the kind of person who hates this kind of thing on a conceptual level. I watch more anime than any other type of TV show (granted I don’t watch much TV in general) and I’m not the kind of anime fan who acts “above” slice of life, wish fulfillment, or ecchi, I love shows way more “degen” than Blend S. But Blend S is just so boring I can’t actually think of anything to say. It’s the kind of show that is the reason why slice of life anime got shit on so much before isekai became oversaturated.

Meta.

Amazon I’d advocate for the nationalization of, at least of AWS. Meta caused a genocide and just needs to go. There’s nothing they can provide that another company can’t. Yeah WhatsApp is entrenched in much of the world, but it doesn’t have to stay that way.

Teslas and cars that are trying to copy Tesla (Mustang Mach-E for example.)

Would maybe work in some places. I at least get the angle of encouraging people to order online less, if this were the situation I think more people would prefer to buy things from brick and mortar stores if they could find it. But in areas with car dependency problems it’d make life worse, particularly if the company decides it’s not profitable enough to put a package vault in a town or in reasonable distance of it, which I could absolutely see happening in rural areas of non-densely populated places.