I always remember it in whichever language is least understood by others in the moment

Are both subnets public?

Thinking about ISP problems: why the fuck do I need to restart when the issue is clearly on your end? 99% of the time restarting doesn’t do shit to resolve bad provisioning, modem-specific problems, bad coax, etc. And I don’t want to restart until I’m prompted because I’d rather some of these shitty modems that don’t keep logs have something available for inspection.

Anyway, I use all my own hardware so this really only ever happens when I try to help family and I’ve done everything on my side of the modem already.

Did you have one bowl of ice cream to numb the pain though?

I 100% agree. A loud TV blasting ads all day is extremely upsetting to me, you can literally feel companies groveling and begging for your money; it’s disgusting. “Hurry in!” “These deals won’t last!” then of course the fucking low-level humor that makes you feel even more stupid. I honestly loathe being anywhere near a TV tuned into stations like that.

as if they upload illegal content

Is it just me or is this fucked up English? Both Musk and “Safety” use the shit wording?

Actually that sounds like a very fair compromise; I really like your thinking!

I mean, you could just get rid of the ability of the president to veto in the first place and bypass all this nonsense. I’m about to go to sleep for the night so maybe I’m missing something but it feels pointless to me that the executive branch even has that power.

Yeah I’m experiencing the complete opposite here. I remember being able to discuss actual topics and not talking shit every time someone turns their back in the Midwest. I don’t remember the last time I felt I could actually be myself here (California).

Yes, initially I found Los Angeles much nicer but after time felt it was much more fake. You can’t really speak your mind here.

which artist’s* work

Coming from the Midwest I don’t think I ever felt uncomfortable expressing any emotions. I could kind of rattle off whatever I wanted to say without too much thinking.

But having lived in Los Angeles for roughly 10 years now I’m afraid to be open at all. When I first came here I was accused of hacking people’s credit cards twice because here knowing about computers means you’re a hacker. I learned to keep my mouth shut and become a robot; toxic/fake positivity is everywhere here and if you don’t play along then you’re quickly cast aside.

I think a language’s usefulness is rather subjective and subject to experience: I love learning all sorts of languages that I have no daily exposure to but I wouldn’t say knowing them is “useless.”

It just hit me that living in the same metro as Ontario, CA if I heard someone say it around here I’d assume they’re talking about that city but online it’s never occurred to me that someone wouldn’t be talking about Canada.

OxyContin only ever made me feel dizzy and kind of crappy.

While I did have a Sony MiniDisc player I don’t think I experienced audio that bad, though I’ll say since a lot of my music was pirated MP3 at the time I can’t imagine converting it to ATRAC3 did it any favors.

God no

I would but at least my head wouldn’t be pounding from the “tin tunnel” sound of lofi.

For me it’s the generally underpowered, terrible speaker paired with the worst quality audio you could imagine (128 kbps MP3 in 2025?).

Having worked in logistics I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the driver had been being called every 20 fucking seconds for an updated ETA on a load that isn’t making any profit.