More specifically: John Coltrane Charles Mingus

Getting back into some jazz. After spending most of the last 6 months listening to classical only, I seem to have become more capable of discerning melodic themes and variations, so jazz sounds waaay better now

Free speech shouldn’t be a thing and the countries that go furthest with this “right” are dying because of it (looking at you, USA). Before anyone says “what about when it’s your opponents controlling the speech?”: they already do where I live and with my beliefs, and I still think it’s within the rights of the government to control speech

We also need people sharing their niche interests and creating discussion… Reddit thrives on these small communities that only find an accessible entrypoint on their platform.

The Dark Knight and It part 1. Both great pop culture movies, the highlights for me were Harvey Dent on Batman and Bev on It, both cool performances and characters

It’s based off the best selling game ever with one of, if not the most dedicated and obsessed fanbase, and appeal to children. The Minecraft IP made so many people millionaires with content creation, it shouldn’t be a surprise that the same consumers would go see the official movie

Fresh out of the oven bread Coffee Pipe tobacco Cigar shops

I don’t know about stopping entirely. I built a pretty cool RAG system for internal use in my company, it very much facilitates navigating very large amounts of text data.

I’m so allergic I only experience the smooth bliss of a clear nose when I get out of a steaming hot shower

Way lower brow than other entries, but I just finished the last Stormlight Archives book that released, Wind and Truth. Pretty on beat character moments and a few unexpected turns. Very cool page turner to settle down in the evening

The PE firms buying the entire downtown are raising prices, not muh immigrants

Damn Windrunners

They are more akin to Gestapo while MAGA as a whole is KKK, but we shouldn’t nitpick

Yup, and the arguments are so weirdly self centered, too. “I went through so much when I started college, what would I talk about with someone in HIGH SCHOOL?” (19-17 gap) Dude, you started smoking pot and went to a few frat parties, it’s not that deep. Also are these people just always discussing life experiences for some reason? No shared interests, hobby groups, common acquaintances?

Reddit would be outraged about an 18 yo dating a 16 yo, though. Some people have really weird and unrealistic views on this

Forgot about BGG! That one is amazing, too

I just stumble upon them using Kagi search and phind.com

Is it, though? You aren’t contributing anything to the local economy or culture while simultaneously stimulating gentrification…

Forums are still alive in ultra niche communities. My favorites: Badger and Blade for wet shaving, Snuffhouse for snuff tobacco, Quantnet for quantitative finance. All of these gather way better content and users than their Reddit counterpart, which usually devolves into memes and pic of the day stuff

Much lighter than the other comments, but waking up to the Luka Doncic trade was nuts