Did this with Reshade playing that Radiohead Amnesia Exhibition thing and Marvel’s Insomniac’s PS4 Spider-Man on PC. It was great!

That’s so cool! Thanks for sharing it!

Benzos. Pretty convinced I had a minor seizure discontinuing that shook me awake with what I experienced as like a flashbang inside my brain.

Psychologically it was quite easy to make the decision to stop and taper down etc. as the drug had accomplished what I wanted from it and I no longer had a solid justification for it, but physically it was an endurance marathon, didn’t unclench my jaw for what felt like weeks.

Sleep was rare and awful. My leg was so restless I’d work up a sweat just shaking it trying to not freak the fuck out. It was like a panic attack that just didn’t go away for weeks.

Other than that I don’t think I’ve ever had any serious addictions, nor any psychological addictions at all which is what I think people usually mean by “addiction” as opposed to physical dependence, but yeah.

Until same-day GP appointments are available and easy to book this won’t change.

Wes Streeting should review himself instead because this level of callousness probably warrants a mental health diagnosis of some sort.

That sucks. For what it’s worth all the victorian/edwardian partitioned slumlord mcmansions I lived in had more mold and nutty neighbours than internet, one was on one of those condemnded-to-be suburb streets that had literally no signal, but had 5G+ the second you crossed the road. Never seen anything like it.

The only place that had openreach optic fiber and gigabit speeds on offer was a brutalist apartment block built in the 2010s which was great. Between that and swapping out the decrepit southeasterns for the luxury of avanti trains, traveling north of the M25 is like going decades into the future. London and Surrey feel like peasant villages compared to the luxury of the Norf.

Yeah this would be useful!

I’m assuming everyone here listens to music somewhat regularly, but I’m curious about how much you care about it. And i specifically want to know about your enjoyment regardless if it’s considered a timeless masterpiece or just a meme song.

I care about it a great deal. I have no genre or time/era preferences and will listen to basically anything that is interesting in some way or simply connects with me on an emotional level, though I do love a good interpretation of genre convention too.

Do you care about having decent enough devices to enjoy it or do you just buy the cheapest pair of earbuds to silence the world around you?

I’m no audiophile but I invested in some DT1990s years back paired with a nice EQ and a Bravo V2/FiiO E10K that serve me well to this day.

Do you have favorite albums or do you just hit play on a random playlist and zone out?

Neither. Weird dichotomy.

I have favourite albums and artists, but most artists I like these days aren’t really “album artists” and most music I regularly enjoy are artists from 2010s onwards or from pre-1990s era of singles dominating. Even with the album era of 90s-2010s when CDs really sealed the deal on albums as the default, I don’t regularly listen to albums as a whole.

I make my own playlists and I mostly use them as a collection of songs I like where I pick out the individual ones and listen to those on repeat, until I pick out the next song. No shuffle, no algorithm/autoplay ever. Most playlists are either genre themed or hyper personal life arcs. I must have spent hundreds of hours making them, curating and sorting them.

Do you ever listen to music just to enjoy it and nothing else?

Yes

Do you talk with passion about your favorite songs/albums/artists?

And yeah I talk about my favourite music all the time, maybe even too much, it seems that music as a whole is less and less appreciated with time, which is a shame, but it is what it is.

Do you spend time searching for music?

Yes. But these days Spotify’s suggestions at the bottom of my personal playlists do do a lot of the work for me. However I also find lots of artists through word of mouth from the people around me, music featured in other media and through artist collabs.

TL;DR is music art or content to you?

Art, no question about it.

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Voted for them as opposed to who? Zack didn’t have our back last election exactly, it was them vs reform & Tories odds are it may come down to that again if the press finds dirt on Zack. I’m trans so trust me I don’t love the paternalistic red tories, but I don’t personally blame anyone for voting for them.

Let’s see them then. What were the social media comments in question? The article talks about “conspiracy theories” and “denying sexual violence”, so I’d like to see what exactly those comments were because to me this doesn’t just seem like what you’d expect, so I’d like to see it before I dismiss it.

Yeah but that’s the thing they’re in completely different circles. They might as well be from another planet to us lol

Yeah!

Been a while since I distrohopped heh

What even is zorin os lol I’ve never even heard of it. Normies really do surprise me often like this, like they mathematically calculate to pick the strangest least expected things through the most alien of mechanisms, it’s always fun trying to figure it out after the fact. Delightful news!

Literally just a dating app without the hidden algo that keeps people onboard and no payment. It could be federated.

Premiere, Photoshop, Lightroom, FL Studio. They either don’t work or work terribly on Linux. That one DAW on Linux from Ableton devs that’s decent still has awful UX compared to FL and VST compatibility seemed spotty. I do use Linux daily (Debian flavor) though just not on my main PC but on my laptop, and also on the work laptop for work.

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Blackpool has lower healthy life expectancy than Rwanda.

Good-at-stuff != Good-person

You owe it to others to try to be a good person, or at least, not a deliberately bad one. That is the social contract we all have to sign.

You only owe it to yourself to be good-at-stuff, at least you should if not for capitalism but that’s besides the point.

Not everyone can be good-at-stuff, but everyone can try to be a good-person.

If they succeed in the latter so much it causes them to fail at the former due to a sense of superiority and over-inflated egos then they have failed more spectacularly at an easier task than you.

At least that’s my take on it.

Now with the pep talk out of the way, practically speaking - you need to start making an exit out of that environment. Once they catch on they will no doubt pick on the odd one out, and the fact you’re already insecure will make you that much more an easy target. So I’d say go before this whole thing blows up, just my 2 cents.