And your beer is possibly the worst in the world. It’s pisswater.

C’mon, stop it. We Americans are bad at many things, but no one can refute that Americans have created some damn good beer over the last two decades.

But wait! When searching for your song you also get: 1) some girl in her basement playing a cover on piano, 2) some dude in his bedroom playing a cover on guitar, 3) some lonely divorcee’s ripped version where lyrics scroll across static images of sunsets, 4) some crappy handheld video taken from the back row of a shitty venue from 2009. What a bargain!

TBF, the fake depth of field that phone cameras generate can be pretty awful as well.

I try my hardest to find new songs, because I don’t want to be some boomer bastard.

I got news for you, pal. The harder you try to be young and hip for the sake of being young and hip, the worse the outcome will be. You’re not getting any younger, and the sooner you accept that, the better.

Instead of forcing yourself to listen to music that has the single attribute of “released less than 6 months ago” in some sad, vain attempt to relive your glory days, try exploring music based on what you actually enjoy. What artists inspire you? Who influenced them, and what genres influenced their sound? Where did the roots of that sound originate? If a song you love is a cover, who wrote or performed the original? What style of singing is it, or what kind of beat?

Listen to what you want to listen to. The most interesting conversations I have with people about music always involve the history and roots of sound, not that last hip shit my aging hipster Lyft driver subjected me to.

After all that I get like 3

As someone on this side of the world, it was not funny at all.

I know it’s hip to bash all things Microsoft, but Outlook is my life at work. It’s absolutely fine if you’re not predisposed to hating things.

I can’t tell you how many times this has happened. Each time I lean back in my chair and wonder why software developers are so full of themselves.

Yes, the zipper method is much more efficient than a single line of cars 2 miles long before a lane closure.

LPT: don’t take it personally when someone needs to merge.

The need to hit FPS targets has always been blown way out of proportion by the casual gamer. But seeing people bitch about their city builder not hitting 30+ is a new low in the chase for unnecessary frames.

That’s all I saw in the picture, honestly

Really grasping at straws with Q and V there.

Gyms do nothing for sleep apnea.

Go to a sleep specialist if you really can’t sleep.

I can’t decide if it’s a good thing or a bad thing, honestly. I joined the initial wave of people leaving Reddit when RiF died. I was excited to see my niche communities like Skyrim Mods and ObsidianMD pop up here, but over time they stagnated as people slipped back to Reddit.

At the same time, I came to realize that I spent a lot of time on stupid subs browsing stupid content that just sucked away my time. And for even my niche subs that I missed, I realized that 75% of that new content is the same reposts, the same arguments, the same debates. I do cheat every once in awhile and go back to Reddit, but now it’s to see the top posts of the month to see what I’ve missed. Turns out, I haven’t missed much.

It has taken a while to get Lemmy where I want it. I’ve filtered a ton of communities and users that do nothing but talk about Russia and socialism and whatever the fuck tankies are, and there sure were a lot of cartoons of animals with enormous NSFW bits I had to filter, but it’s starting to come together now for me.