Those people really need someone to explain the concept of subtext to them.

How can you not know Superman’s origin story? Apart from the comics its been retold in every major movie version too. He literally is and always was (weird retcons aside) an immigrant.

For anyone who’s thinking UK, I’d advise not - we’re about 4-5 years behind you in terms of imminent fascism and whilst there’s still technically a chance to avert it, its very unlikely - especially since Starmer is being even more awful than the Tories.

Re-reading Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House” because its the best haunted house novel ever written.

Streaming music is damaging musicians ability to remain musicians. Spotify are the worst but none of them are great. You can buy (and therefore download, own and control) a bands music from Bandcamp, Ampwall etc. You can also usually get merch there too. The only people who make good money from music streaming are music streaming executives.

Licensing will be your biggest issue as its usually done per-country. Here’s PPL (uk) pricing model for example.

And here’s an overview on the subject.

I don;t know about your friends but I had the glum task of removing a Misfits patch from my battle jacket when I found that out :(

Thats the great thing about science, you don’t have to ‘believe’ it.

Hi, no, do what you want.

Cut, otherwise you do a line and you wake up in A&E.

I was part of that migration and I won’t be as it looks like Digg is going to be pre-launch enshittified via AI slop.

No matter what they might claim, lifetime really means the lifetime of the company. If they go out of existence in five years, so does your lifetime plan.

Because claiming they don’t is not the same as being able to verify they don’t by making their code open source.

It’s ridiculously expensive. It’s not private if you have to link your searches to a paid account and none of those payment providers are private. They don’t seem to have open sourced any of their key functionality, meaning you have to trust them to not be collecting your activity data.

I spent a long time getting rid of software and using services that I either no longer trusted or was unable to make an informed choice due to their lack of open source code and I’m not going to take a retrograde step now. And that’s without the issue with their choice (a continued choice I believe) to use Brave results, a company I’m personally not prepared to support.

I’m only part way through the 3rd one but I have to agree. This third one in particular just seems like - how much shit can we pile on this lad before he breaks? It’s part of the reason I’m so confused about Kettricken’s anger at him. Yes, he’s been an idiot at times but he literally saved her life more than once. What’s she so angry about?