Genuinely thought “King Tides and Cyclone Jasper” was the name of some drug syndicate.

Give him a fucking job. Put his genius to work, solving problems for the good of society. Life imprisonment at 18 is barbaric. Even moreso of an autistic person. Utterly disgusted.

They are non-binary, FYI. It’s not an accident that Gessen isn’t gendered in the article.

Cries in UK.

Please could you be specific, so we don’t have to check out Reddit, to find out? Not a dig, I’m just trying really hard to avoid the platform after moving. Cheers.

“I think I said “wunderkind”, but okay.”

Urethra.

Sorry, this is longer than I thought it would be. Bear with me…

At some point iTunes “upgraded” to include artist avatars that you couldn’t switch off or choose your own images for. Anyone it couldn’t find had a placeholder grey microphone icon, which was bad enough. If you had some obscure artist that happened to share a band name with a more popular act, it would default to their image. Unforgivable.

It pissed me off enough to seek another option and I eventually settled on Foobar2000, which was everything I had loved about Winamp and OG iTunes in one. Also, fully customisable, albeit with a learning curve. Moving everything into Foobar, I realised I needed to redownload all album cover art, for my 40,000+ song collection, in as high a resolution as possible (discovering albumartexchange, and Advanced Google Image Search, in the process).

Halfway through this task, I realised I should probably also redownload anything I had that was less than 192k bitrate, and maybe in some cases I should go flac, just to “make sure”. Fast forward a year and I have about 70,000 songs, mostly meeting those requirements, and mostly totally replacing the collection i had been building since 2001. God bless Soulseek and RuTracker.

Now, in answer to your actual question, on this journey I found (or, rather, didn’t) a whole bunch of stuff that I have from the early 2000s which doesn’t seem to exist online, anymore, or only does in poorer quality than I already had it, most of it old UK HipHop from that time. It was a real validation of one of the most important reasons for piracy, though I can’t claim it as the reason for my original (or ongoing) obsession!

But they made a movie episode, in 2019, to try to finally round off the series (all the actors returned). Check it out, if you didn’t catch it. It wasn’t perfect, obviously, but it was an admirable attempt.

The Intouchables (SIC). The original French film with Omar Sy. Not the pointless Hollywood remake. Its my favourite comedy of all time.

Also Firefox.

Thank you so much for this. Just read his story (this GQ.com article) and hitting the podcast, now. What a fucking mensch.

Found the Brit/American/Australian? (Delete as appropriate)

Thanks for the added context.

That username, though…

I do not see what clown contracts have to do with this!

Make it illegal for corps. to use anything other than biodegradable plastics (starch-based, etc), for single-use products, unless there is a very good and specific case to be made (eg long-term storage, or storage at extreme temperature needs). Outlaw unsolicited snail mail (leafleting, etc). With reasonable exceptions for municipal stuff.

Don’t forget the aerosols, from all that silver paint!

It already is, over here in the UK.

What’s funny about this (apart from your excellent joke) is that there are actually a lot of places, where they are a common crop, where bananas are advertised as “boneless”. This is because, I believe the bit that connects the banana bunch to the plant (not a tree!) Is sometimes called the “bone” (I believe it’s “C” in this image:

Having the grocer machete this bit off for you presumably cuts down on the unnecessary weight on your moped back home, and maybe even the costs, if buying by weight.

Caveat: This is just what I have come to understand, from travel experience and curiosity. If there are any actual “Bananologists” about, please feel free to correct!

Great info, here. Thanks so much for helping to demystify.