One thing I really miss is the Used CD market. I know you can still get second hand CDs, but in the bad old days every music store would buy used CDs and sell them for like $7-$14 depending on how popular. In a mid-size town like mine, that’d be half a dozen stores.

I used to go to a music store every Sat and just flip through their used stuff. I’d pick up a CD or two every week and before you know it, I had a collection that’s robust enough that I’ve never created an account with a streaming music service.

Yea. Most cosmetic procedures would count. I don’t see how a woman getting breast implants is one iota different than a trans woman getting top surgery.

My Mom had a close call. She got an Email “thanking” her for her “purchase”. The amount was ~$500. The Email helpfully included a customer service line to get a refund. Once called, the “customer service” rep tried to get her to install remote-desktop software.

Of course there was no original $500 purchase. The whole point of the scam is to make the target upset that they’ve been charged and get so laser focused on the refund that they don’t question the process.

H4ndy-J, The worlds first fully articulated sex-robot.

Casinos have operated like this for years. People who loose lots of money get flown to VIP events with free hotel, meals, concerts, and even mix with movie stars. People are employed as concierge to these gamblers, so it’s not MGM calling and encouraging you to gamble, it’s Beth or Stephen.

Gambling is just theft with extra steps. I’d ban all of it, including the lottery.

Unironically, the Soviet Union. I’ve herd that anthem a thousand times as a joke, but you know, it kinda slaps.

Obviously I’m just talking about the arrangement and music because I’ve no idea what the lyrics mean.

First, there is a school of thought that says that the planet is ultimately doomed, and if we want to survive as a species, we need to get off of it.

I’ve just never understood this mentality. Terraforming Mars to escape climate change is as dumb as a bag of hammers. As far as cosmic catastrophes go, most of the stuff that’d kill Earth will get Mars and the Moon too.

And if you’ve got ambitions outside the Solar system, then planetary engineering becomes a trivial problem by comparison.

I think that “we’ve got to leave Earth or we’re going to die!” tacitly admits that there are few good reasons to do it.

I once met a girl at a party and things went so well and so fast that when I took her to the bedroom, I invited her sister to join us.

That’s because the girl was black-out drunk and I wanted to put her to bed, in the custody of her sister, so that I could leave.

I have a Kindle Touch and IDGAF if it can connect to Amazon. I don’t connect it to the internet because I’m afraid it’ll update and break. Right now I’ve got it set to never sleep because the wake button doesn’t work. But that little hack only works on old versions of the firmware.

The only service I wanna connect my kindle to is Calibre.

Not the best show I’ve ever seen, but I saw Creed at a State Fair and they put on a helluva show. I don’t like Creed, but it was a great vibe. Compare to Pearl Jam, whom I used to adore, who came to my town and phoned in a lousy performance. I’m just saying that good music isn’t enough to make a good show.

I caught Pink Floyd on their “Pulse” tour. They performed the “Dark Side of the Moon” album in it’s entirety, and if your a fan, then you know how special that was.

Fans claiming ownership over stories and direction has caused more harm than good.

Psychologists are forbidden from disclosing confidential information except when they have information that their patient is going to harm themselves or someone else, at that point they have a duty to report.

Priests are forbidden from disclosing confidential information period. It doesn’t matter if people are actively being harmed, let Jesus take the wheel.

So there are two standards that exist in the wild and address what your talking about.

Just keep in mind that Linux compatible =/= Steam Deck compatible. For example a title may not perform well on Steam Deck, but run just fine on Linux with beefier hardware.

Simi-related fun fact.

The biggest contributor to TOR is the CIA. They funded it’s creation and are primarily responsible for maintaining it to this day.

The CIA maintains TOR as a way for spies to pass information over the internet. They make it public because if only spies used TOR it would be trivial to catch them. So it’s in their interest that it be public and secure. It’s open source and security experts agree you can trust it.

At Sequoya National park the bears get crazy close. I was laying half outside my tent stargazing with binoculars and a bear walked through my camp. He didn’t get close enough to touch, but we could have shaken paws.

On the beach I found mountain lion tracks once. This was weird because I was alone and the beach was a 2 mile hike from the parking lot.

You just have to wait until they go away. Couple of weeks is what I was told and close to what I experienced.

“Motorcycle section” puts me off this game more than anything else I’ve heard.

To my ear, “motorcycle section” screams single-level set-piece on rails with minimal gameplay designed to show off explosions. Just like that level where you man a minigun out the door of a helicopter. You know the one, from every game released in the 2010s.

If you’re trying to erase something embarrassing, I’m told it’s best to modify the embarrassing thing rather than delete it.