Ive been assuming since Sarah Palin that Alaska is majority idiots.

Good to know. I had some trouble a couple months back getting wifi and Ethernet working, and learned my phone can provide Internet over USB.

Bandcamp gives you drm free copies of the music. I think you can do flac, mp3, or ogg. They do recommend downloading your copy after buying it because in rare cases something can be removed

I’ve bought some CDs directly and then ripped the music myself, too.

Do you have money? If so, buy music you like from the artists. Bandcamp is pretty good (though they sold out, and might enshittify).

I’ve been buying music for years and have a big library now

When a certain saint allegedly shot a CEO dead on the street, there was a big surge in support. Sadly, no one else has followed suit.

A lot of people are sick of the ownership class ruining everything, and would cheer for spilled blood.

If someone shot the ceo of uber dead, people would celebrate. They’re all scum.

Conservatism is entirely “in-group to protect, out-group to hurt”. So, so. They don’t. They are worse then toddlers.

Mint didn’t work at all on my last desktop. I should have tested more with the live disk before installing.

The mint discord I found was pretty helpful though.

A reasonable guess, but i think I (re-)read all of Pratchett as an adult and didn’t come across it

Any ethical super intelligence would immediately remove billionaires from power. I’d like to see that.

I read a fiction in high school about like the afterlife, and it mentioned the best English playwright wasn’t Shakespeare. It was some nobody who only showed his writing to his neighbor, but the neighbor was an asshole and told him it was trash. Don’t remember anything else about it but that stuck with me.

That’s good but there’s a lot of room between creepy and effective

I never paid for it out of stubbornness.

Are you writing good messages to potential matches?

What part of the world are you in?

In my experience, tinder is pretty bad. I don’t use facebook so I can’t vouch for that one, but I assume it’s also bad. I never got a single match on Bumble.

Hinge, I got pretty good results on. Even though they’re all owned by the same Match Group, hinge seemed to work better. I could get about a date a week on hinge, as an average guy.

I think it worked better for me because you can send a note when you see someone you like, so if you can write complete sentences you’re already a cut above the average guy.

Tell us more about your current usage. What are you doing and where is it failing?

Some of the other posts already hit the highlights. Have a variety of well lit photos. Your profile should be short, but with some unique-ish hooks for people to talk about (eg: “reading ‘such and such’ for my book club!” - several things for someone to ask about there).

When you do match with people, don’t send generic messages. Don’t just send “hey”. Go read https://nohello.net/en/ for a post about that in other contexts.

After you’ve had one or two successful exchanges, clear any deal breakers you might have (eg: “really enjoying this conversation but wanted to make sure you saw on my profile I have a toddler. Are you okay with that?”). If that succeeds, ask them out.

Don’t provide too many choices. People get overwhelmed easily. “I’d love to talk more about (whatever we we were talking about). Do you want to go on a date? I like (local bar), but (other bar) in your neighborhood looks fun, too!”. Two choices. They’ll probably pick one.

More specific advice may be available if you tell us more about your specific experience

It seems like a lot of people here in the US are going to be going “you’re being alarmist there’s nothing wrong there’s no reason to fight just like chill out”, even when there are literal concentration camps. I don’t know how to get through to some people.

Conservatives are wrong about pretty much everything. I don’t know of a single problem where they have a sensible policy. They’re worse than toddlers.

Usually people talk about the pre tax cost.

I have a tinfoil hat theory that the taxes are kept like that to give people a recurring, low grade, anti-tax sentiment. There are a lot of crazy idiots that don’t want government to exist here, so by making people feel bad about paying taxes (instead of obscuring that by baking it into the listed price) they can win sympathy.

Not sure where the details are. I hit find an action and it took me to a page that says 0 events in New York :|

Social media was always kind of garbage, and the modern algorithmically sorted stuff is worse.

I’d rather just text my friends

Conservatism is just “in-groups to protect, out-groups to hurt.” That’s it. That’s the whole thing. They’re bad people.