Good rant.

That being said, ten years with a cheap pair of buds is kinda rare. The uber cheap ones sometimes won’t last one year, even with light use. I don’t think I’ve had many buds in that price range not fail inside of two or three. Wires wear out, the drivers get screwy, something.

But, as you’ve said, putting money into buds for the kind of use case you’re using them for doesn’t make sense.

The only cheap buds I’ve had last decently are Klim. The sound is definitely meh at best, but there is bass presence. They handle being shoved into pockets well though, and that tends to be harder on buds than regular use. I’m almost at the three year mark with the first pair and so far they’re holding up. The original tips were foam rather than rubber or silicone, so they’re long gone, but they came with extras, and the size is easy to find. Since tips are inherently going to degrade over time no matter what they’re made of, I don’t consider them a factor in the overall usability.

I do have a pair of sony buds that have held up okay, but they’re in the next price tier up, as in under 20 by a few cents.

Yeah, and 6.9 is something nice broken up by a period

I think it gets over pooed on, and people miss the underlying emotional depth of the episode because it’s so easy to get lost in the mostly middling to poor singing.

But the musical episode did a great job at inverting musical tropes and conventions. And it did so while staying true to the Buffy “vibe”. It was dark and ugly and an emotional roller coaster.

Like, the off key stinger of “I was in heaven”, the way her voice broke and the droning behind that. Fucking genius.

Musicals tend to err on the side of pleasing the ear more than telling a story. OMWF does the opposite in a lot of ways, and that’s why it sticks out in my memory more than all but a small handful of episodes.

Shit, I don’t leave the house unless there’s no other choice as it is

Our neighbor has said similar, and we don’t even have many

Yeah, I saw that and I’m left hoping that it was some kind of assisted suicide thing rather than a murder for other reasons.

Aha! I just figured out the trans agenda!

It’s all a plot to drive up the price point of penises!

Der flietermaus

This may be my favorite science based meme ever

Yeah, I had oral surgery maybe ten years ago, with ketamine as part of the anaesthesia. Had a solid six month remission of depression.

That was a literal trip too, though. Coming out of it, I was talking to celestial beings and such lol.

I haven’t had battery issues on graphene with signal personally. That being said, I’ve also had no issues with matrix based messaging either. However, matrix does have issues with notification delays that signal doesn’t (again, for me).

Yah, the thick skin may be armor, but it shuts you off from so much. Some, some, of the bad stuff is easier to survive, but all the good out there has just as much trouble getting in.

I don’t think any given trauma recovery paradigm is without a lopsided benefit/drawback ratio. You’re left with scars, period.

Damn, I need to find a lesbian to be in a relationship with

Jokes aside, it’s interesting.

If there’s a direct action, as in the chemical changing something inside on a physical level, that’s one avenue to look at for both treatment and better understanding of depression as a whole.

If it’s psychological, indirect, then it’s still worth more study because that’s a valuable treatment by itself. But it also helps point towards avenues of understanding the underlying mechanisms of depression.

There really aren’t many things that give even that short a relief from a single use.

I get where you’re coming from. I tend to have to “click” with an artist/band before I can really sink into them. Sometimes it never happens.

That being said, I think the best approach to Prince is chronological. His oldest music tends to be the most accessible. As he developed, he got more experimental and that can make it harder to vibe with if you go in without familiarity.

I’d hit up the Wikipedia page and kind of surf through his first three albums. If you haven’t “gotten” what made him popular back then, then the best you’ll reach is appreciating his talent on an abstract level rather than feeling it. Nothing wrong with that at all, clicking with a given music segment or not doesn’t mean anything other than the fact that it doesn’t vibe for you.

But, he really was an amazing songwriter. So you could try browsing just his lyrics and see if that gets you into things that way. I know I’m not a musician in any way, so the subtleties of his guitar and other instrumental talent are beyond me, but I can comfortably say that he was capable of lyrics that could match any poet you wanted to point at. The craft of how he would structure a song is damn potent.

Even his bumping, club friendly stuff like Cream or Get Off is crafted extremely well. So if you’re into lyrics enough, that might be the path that makes him click for you

Woom objects to your opinion.

Man, I feel the same about most greens tbh. But I definitely agree that turnip greens don’t get the love they deserve compared to kale and collards for damn sure. Even chard gets more love

Mustard greens are in the same boat though, usually.

The great thing about turnip greens in particular is that they’re a twofer with the root. As a crop, even in small gardens, it’s a no brainer. You get so much out of the same square footage.

They cook up easier than collards, have more depth and earthiness than kale, and have a mild sweetness that mustard can’t quite match. Vastly underrated.

Have to treat them gentle, and it’s easy to overpower them with too much of the usual pork additions. When you do, they’re a delightful meal but themselves

I have something small, wrinkly and dried in the cleft of my buns too

Legit, that idea always bugs me. On multiple levels.

For one, a person’s value isn’t in looks to begin with. Then, there’s the misogyny of it, reducing women, yet again, into objects of the gaze (it isn’t just the male gaze, and it isn’t always a sexual thing when it is, and my objection to the idea goes beyond that part).

Like, damn, how shitty someone has to be to even think that thought, much less speak it.

But there’s also the smugness that their idea of beauty must be the right one, and the only acceptable one. Fuck off with that shit.

The old adage of beauty being in the eye of the beholder is more than an adage. Just because their punk ass can’t see beauty doesn’t mean it isn’t there to be seen. Yeah, there’s ranges of features and traits that are going to appeal to different percentages of the population, but that still doesn’t mean any given person’ opinion of those traits is inherently superior.

People can really suck

That’s a new one to me! Thanks, I really do love discovering new words :)