Nicook

oh come on the road to snowbird is chill

if theres higher supply, then companies pay less.

Try bandcamp (no really it's actually been improving over the years). Also there's still youtube for trying popular ones. Should cover "trying" almost all music legally afaik.

Do not respect Evil.

You should really go visit the musical instrument museum if you ever have the opportunity. Just the shortlist of his stuff is pretty objectively impressive, dunno maybe I'm replying to some secret famous person's account shrug.

perhaps even in Japanese gardens

there's a lot of ill will against the author in the current day, I suspect thats at least partially to blame.

yeah, I think most of this really stems from people streatching the use of "rare books". The cool rare books google scanned one page at a time were borrowed from a library because they are rare and or valuable and usually old (out of copyright by a long time).

I remember when google was scanning a bunch of rare books, I mean they might still be doing that? Either way, that was cool.

I have a few "rare books" and have read many, you'd be suprised at what is publicly available on google books since like ~2010ish.

Everybody here falls for the most obvious bait.

getting a long term loan to buy a car sounds like it would signal intention to be more than a tourist.

people commuting across borders just for work is legitimately very common all over the world. Although I'd assume they'd be able to easily secure a loan in at least ONE of those places.

Made it through the account migration. But later lost my account after some hacker compromised my microsoft account. Microsoft kindly let me know about some unauthorized access, and then promptly deleted the account :) .

That was the last straw from Microsoft for me. Never again.

some things never change. Pre AI I was always shocked that such large and complex systems actually run as well as they do. Especially after getting to see how the sausage is made/works.