Beaver [he/him]

First, I would accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, since the only scenario where this happens is one where Catholicism is the one true religion and God is telling me specifically to knock it off with the ex-catholic atheism stuff.

Second, “I hear you loud and clear God, I will be the Maoist Pope”. I mean, why else would he pick me?

Step 1 of making an apple pie from scratch

Correction: it’s gay to wash your butt

It wasn’t a single day, but maybe over the course of a few months. So probably the latter.

I was hung up on someone for like ten years, but there was eventually a sharp dropoff in hung-up-ness. It was surprising to me that it happened, it felt like it was going to be a life-long thing. Living your life is the best thing you can do.

They go out of their way to mention only European SSRs, as if the central Asian ones didn’t exist.

Organically grown niche communities don’t deliver quarterly growth numbers, so Reddit has put no effort into any sort of guardrails against hostile takeovers by astroturfing content farmers. The logic of the attackers doesn’t go beyond “this subreddit has a lot of subs and we have methods of dumping the mod team and turning all new posts into content slop that generates revenue for us”. Stuff like this is just the choking gurgles of a dying platform.

Napster was a godsend, as I couldn’t afford to buy music. I installed it on the school computers, and I had a sneaky little hidden folder with my mp3s. I’d plug in my headphones and listen over lunchtime. I eventually figured out how to use multipart rar files to put them onto floppy disks, so that I could get them back home and listen on my parent’s computer. I was eventually able to buy a portable CD player that played mp3s on CD-RW, which really opened up the possibilities. Without piracy, I don’t think I would be into music in the same way - I simple never would have had the opportunity to listen to most stuff.