I once searched "best workstation keyboard" and happened to glance at the summary, and it legitimately was trying to compare mechanical typing keyboards like Nuphy and Keychron, with music keyboards like Yamaha's Montage and Roland's Fantom. Which, NGL, was pretty entertaining.

My buddy says "chasm" with a soft ch. We've tried to correct him. He doesn't hear us. He also pronounces "tome" like "tomb".

We play DnD together if anyone was wondering why these words would come up with any regularity.

Long ago, I'd make a Google search for something, and be able to see the answer in the previews of my search results, so I'd never have to actually click on the links.

Then, websites adapted by burying answers further down the page so you couldn't see them in the previews and you'd have to give them traffic.

Now, AI just fucking summarizes every result into an answer that has a ~70% of being correct and no one gets traffic anymore and the results are less reliable than ever.

Make it stop!

An ex and I were on a bus trip to a city about an hour away from where we lived while we taught English in Korea. The subject of there being a "subway" in said city came up randomly. She said she thought she had seen one the last time she was there. I had been there more times than she had and said there was no subway. She doubled down. No, she was quite sure she had seen one near the university. I doubled down, I've been there quite a few times. There's no way they have a subway. It's not even big enough for one! It got pretty heated. This went on for some time. Feelings were hurt.

She was talking about the sandwich restaurant, and I was talking about underground trains. We were both right.

Endoskeleton. Endo - inside. Exo - outside. If the thing has a metal exoskeleton, the tiger is gonna have a real hard time biting into it.

You see a few of them here-and-there in Korea these days. They're extra infuriating here because they don't fit in most parking spaces and they'll straight-up turn a lot of two-way roads into one-way. I don't think I've ever seen one with something in the bed. Purely for show.

That's cool. Mud daubers are extremely chill and will only sting you as an absolutely last resort. They also are great at keeping the spider population down. Which I'm a little torn on because I love spiders since they eat mosquitoes, and mosquitoes can fuck off and die afaic.

The thing is, this turd burgler could lose millions a day for the rest of his life and still retire more well-off than just about anybody. When's the last time a truly filthy rich person ended up in the gutter?

To compare this to music streaming, I have a couple of tracks with ~4 million listens, and they each made ~$20.

Do you like cats?

Like the US justice system gives a flying fuck about precedence anymore.

I've been a night showerer and a morning showerer throughout different periods of my life. These days I'm actually closer to a lunch showerer - which I realize isn't practical for most, but it's the superior method if one showers only once a day.

"love the uncertainty"

Yeah, nothing like insecurity. Everyone fucking loves the shit outta that fucking shit! Gimme it all. I want nerve wracking, potential poverty around every corner. That's the ticket!

Seriously though, WTF is wrong with this person?

Synthesizers: digital vs analog.

Common opinion holds that analog (specifically oscillators, but also filters and even VCAs [voltage controlled amplifiers]) are warmer and more natural sounding while digital are cold and harsh.

The thing is, digital emulation of analog hardware has become virtually indistinguishable from the real thing, but there is a certain segment that refuses to believe their $5000 Minimoog can be so easily replicated by software (realistically I doubt Bob Moog could tell the difference anymore).

Of course some also choose to argue which is better, which is just ridiculous because they both have their uses depending on what kinds of music you're composing or just what sounds you're trying to make.

Don't forget climate collapse!

You also downloaded 5 offensively funny songs wrongly attributed to Weird Al.

I'm on break, I clicked on the image, and one of my 7-year-old students standing behind me saw it and immediately said "ChatGPT". Ha!

That's a bit specious coming from the land of Samsung, Hyundai, LG, etc. etc. The oligarchy is firmly entrenched, here.

Windows is so full of stupid little shit that should have been fixed years - if not decades - ago. Sleep mode broken, folder customize options don't apply to subfolders despite offering that choice, the OP. Sigh.

Haha! I am an ESL teacher in Korea. One of the funniest things I've had a student submit was about their family's favorite foods. A student somehow managed to translate "chicken" as "cock". More than one of their family members liked "cock" a whole lot.