33 minutes and nobody has offered an impractical yet potentiall workable solution(?) yet… maybe it really isn’t possible.

In that interpretation; the boss just agrees with what his company’s HR is putting out, so it would really be a non-meme…

Cryptocity where the streets are paved with blockchains and the mayor is AI.

It also has some damn good music… somewhere over the rainbow and if I only had a brain are bangers, and Judy Garland was a touchstone for gay boomers…

Understanding references was part of the draw, too… if I keep seeing a reference to something, I want to watch it. The biggest problem is being unaware that something even is a reference. The Simpsons DVD commentary is eye-opening in that regard.

Huh. Do you particularly care about movies? I think I’m old enough that movie history (watching the classics) was a pretty common hobby… these days, I guess people are patient gaming and there’s a lot more anime to catch up on, on top of all the scrolling.

Yeah, but isn’t it in the pantheon of Movies Everyone’s Seen like The Wizard of Oz and The Matrix?

Can’t use soulseek fairly without opening a port; I’m exclusively on mobile internet with a VPN without port forwarding… I might pay for home wifi for one month out of the year to fill my drive…

Depending on how security is, you can plug a USB-c hub and connect it to a KBM and run it that way…

Well, I haven’t been following the news, but Iran is stable; we’re not in an occupation fighting the natural political tendencies of an entire populace the way we were in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan… Iran is not a china shop.

Is there a word for memes that totally lack the context of their original images to the point of being opposite the intention of the creator?

Because I think the next scene is Ledger’s Joker setting that pile of money on fire.

Weird considering we haven’t declared “war” since 1942.

Ah, so you have friends and family! That is a blessing, and I know that from distant experience.

I guess I don’t understand why remote access is such a popular use case. Throw some shit on your phone, h/d, or thumbdrive and you’re good for a few hours. I crammed 4 full seasons of STNG on my phone recently.

And Marsters is in a few Torchwoods as Basically Spike.

Will it be awkward for a new Buffy series to reference Scooby Doo since SMG was in it? Like when Marvel references the Big Lebowski when Jeff Bridges was in the second Iron Man.

I like to use the time filter and can listen in 5 languages; “oldies” in various genres, times, and places, isn’t that hard to research–plenty of free internet radio out there.

Sorry to the new bands out there.

Edit: Also I find the mindset of finding the exact best music is kind of unhealthy. Building a tolerance for meh actually helps me discover things that don’t immediately and instantly appeal to me, and I think that leads to more musical variety in the long run than the skip-happy attitude streaming encourages.

I got away from Microsoft two years ago, so my references are out of date.

Everybody is paying for some kind of music streaming service of some kind or another.

Count me out. I’m building a music library of my own with the help of my local library, thrift stores, and the internet. And, shit, I just got a record player, too.

How are they not getting blocked?

I’ve thought of mass scraping youtube for music, but it’s not worth ths risk of being banned by Google for life.

I haven’t noticed, but my grocery store recently limitted their cash back to $40, so you have to split your purchases into separate transactions until you have the cash you want.