He was also mentored by Roy Cohn, infamous republican lawyer and closeted homophobe who died of AIDS.

Except that as part of its enshittification Spotify has intentionally changed its algo to push people into more and more homogenous “beige”, nothing music. It has become so prolific that Spotifycore has become a term to describe what happens when you let Spotify autoplay.

With the rise of AI, Spotify is now producing and recommending beige music that is produced on an industrial scale, at the expense of actual artists.

Mood Machine go brrr

Mood Machine by Liz Pelly review – a savage indictment of Spotify | Music books | The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/05/mood-machine-by-liz-pelly-review-a-savage-indictment-of-spotify

Men should also get a prostate massage every month to reduce their risk of prostate cancer

“I could’ve done physics” is the billionaire equivalent of “could have gone pro.”

https://youtu.be/GmJI6qIqURA

General positive effects of pedestrianisation still seem to hold even after COVID.

This later study for Osaka is also co authored by Yuki Yoshimura, one of the authors of study using Spanish data.

Quantifying tactical urbanism: Economic impact of short-term pedestrianization on retail establishments - ScienceDirect - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275125001039

‪Yuji Yoshimura‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬ - https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=RBHJzi4AAAAJ

This already exists, and they are called unit linked insurance plans. Basically the insurance company provides you some units in an investment/trust fund, in addition to the policy benefit, for your premiums (obviously higher to compensate).

They are actually much scammier, because the insurance company administers the unit fund as well, and the fees are often much higher than if you just buy the policy and an exchange traded trust/fund separately. They were formulated by insurance companies basically for the sole purpose of bamboozling people who echo this meme. Back in the day, door to door insurance salespeople would say “even if you never claim, you still get a payout!”.

Unit-linked insurance plan - Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit-linked_insurance_plan

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

Beauty is pain 😔✊

(which they for some reason keep electing)

Japan’s voting system is FPTP for rural seats, but proportional for urban seats. This means that not only do conservatives sweep rural seats, but also split the urban seats, which would usually would otherwise to progressives under a full FPTP system. This toxic mix has been a longstanding issue in their politics.

Intersex operations are usually marketed as “interventions” rather than circumcisions. Also as terrifying as it sounds.

This is only true because companies didn’t consider autistics a valuable enough demographic to bother with. Now you can see companies like Loops market their overpriced shitty earplugs towards autistics, which actually seem to be popular.

This overlooks female circumcision (it is as terrifying and horrifying as it sounds)

Not sure of your specific needs, but I feel that self hosting (i.e. setting up a proper server) is unnecessary. Just pick a local first program and use it with syncthing.

The usual trio (which may be overkill) are Obsidian (admittedly not open source), Trillium, and logseq.

Oh yes, especially among gamers (derogatory). Even a basic search of “bioshock infinite hate” will bring up countless threads. The attacks and abuse got so serious they even made multiple news articles, with some accusing Ken Levine (creator) as a Jew making a white killing simulator.

But it was very amusing, because if you tried to engage with some of these haters and why they didn’t like the plot, they’ll say that they hated how Infinite’s plot was more “political” whereas Bioshock 1/2 were more “ideological.”

How BioShock Infinite Became One of the Most Controversial Games Ever - https://www.cbr.com/bioshock-infinite-most-controversial-games-ever/

The existing Euro does not have a proper system for day to day transactions. Transfers are currently handled by SEPA, which are only suitable for things like bills. This means that a lot of people especially in less developed EU nations end up using an international bank card, i.e. MasterCard/Visa for day to day transactions.

Details are somewhat vague, but the ECB’s website seems to have many good assurances. This even includes strong privacy features, such as offline capabilities and cash-like privacy.

FAQs on a digital euro - https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/faqs/html/ecb.faq_digital_euro.en.html#q1

Wasn’t this the massacre in Bioshock Infinite which Booker DeWitt participated in, and subsequent PTSD set off the game’s (and arguably franchise’s) events? No wonder it was hated by gamers (derogatory)

Most circuit boards are an absolute pride parade. You have your male to male/female to female connectors, MtF/FtM transformers, master/slave setups, multiport adapters, splitters, switches, docking, etc