I think this is better than the original. The Olivia version is bratty. And I like bratty and especially Olivia’s variant of same! But the Tove Lo version is just deeper and has more going on emotionally.

Now this is a hard song on the drums. Those polyrhythms! Damn impressive.

I’m talking about adults here not minors, but it’s been the weirdest fucking thing seeing people assert that any couple with a seven year or whatever age gap have nothing to talk about and can’t be interested in the same things. Just…what? People are just not that different.

What kinds of fucking weirdos are the people who believe a 30-year-old and a 23-year-old have absolutely nothing in common? Personally I’ve found I have a lot in common with those who share my interests and less with those who do not no matter their age or gender (for that matter).

SHOCKING

If someone form the 90’s were to wake up in 2023 what do you think would surprise them the most?

How dour and pessimistic everything feels and how prudish in general all is now. Yeah, those are my hobbyhorses but I don’t think I’m wrong here.

Now feels vastly different than the 1990s. I am someone from the 1990s who wakes up every morning in 2023, so yes I do fucking know.

All the certitudes are platitudes are intended to keep the multitudes in servitude.

I really dislike 99.999% of memoirs. I just do not even try to read them anymore. The ones that aren’t boring are lies, and the ones that are lies are usually also still boring.

When you actually read the developer discussions and “reasoning,” it’s shocking how much the Firefox devs were and are deeply invested in making Firefox more difficult to use for fake security. And just worse in general. Some are true believers, of course. But many seem to actually deeply despise their users and want them to fail.

Perhaps being a dev in a large, very visible project is like being on help desk? That also tends to cause hatred towards those you are supposed to be helping.

The most fun movie I’ve seen recently is M3GAN. Such a hokey, clichéd premise executed so incredibly fucking well.

It’s not innovative, its social commentary is as shallow as an Atacama salt lagoon, and it has more cheese than Wisconsin. But good lord is that movie ever entertaining.

This isn’t that hard as far as drumming goes, but Sina is so crazy precise and fun to watch, who cares?

She covers much harder songs of course, but that’s just big fun.

I’m not a fan of a lot of 1970s music as most of it is boring pap. But this is an exception; this live performance is perfect. One of the top 10 I’ve ever seen by anyone I think.

Is being called curvy a nice way of saying fat?

It did not used to be. But that alas has changed. Up until the early 2000s or so it referred to someone who was both not obese nor sylph-like but rather curvaceous, like Sophia Loren in the the late 1950s and early 1960s:

Now “curvy” is a term mostly used by massively obese women to feel better about themselves. And that is certainly not an improvement.

“The greater Mississippi basin has more miles of navigable river than the rest of the world put together.”

-Tim Marshall in Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World