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I had gotten Youtube premium and enjoyed it. My subscription ran out and I find I have 90% use of it for free. I got it to listen to the app on my phone when I was out. However the app sucks ass. I would listen to one song and then the app would just crash. SO I never got to use it for the intended use.

So which would you choose? Youtube or Spotify? and how is the Spotify app on the phone?

And not a monkey’s paw moment.

It's a bit shocking to me when I see people online putting 9/11 conspiracies in the same box as "MAGA" conspiracies (for lack of a better term, sorry).

For reference, I was 24 in 2001 living in central NJ. Even without social media or fake news websites or what cable news has become today, I have vivid memories of people having the firm belief that there was something up with the attack on 9/11. Was this just my social circle?

Jet fuel melting steel beams was one of the more fringe and unfounded (and quickly debunked) ideas but the rest of everything on that day was questionable. Tower seven falling, the missing plane debris at the pentagon and central PA, the military / president not responding to known threats, if a person with limited flight time could hit a tower, the fact that Bush attacked a country that had nothing to do with the event, and so much more are still, I thought, reasonable questions - especially when looked at together.

This is not about rehashing each theory. Or maybe it is? Have I missed that everything has been debunked?

I mean, I still believe 9/11 was an inside job or at least high level officials, including Bush, were aware it was going to happen and did nothing to stop it. I thought this was still a common opinion of most or many Americans over the age of forty.

What is your favorite mythological figure (of ancient religions only)?

What ancient musical instruments gained popularity after modern reconstructions? I know that the lyre is one of them, but what others?

It's ded, Jim. :(

Why some open world video games of the late 2010s and early 2020s have been considered "Breath of the Wild clones"?

Context: I am used to the right wing propaganda/ misinformation that is on Twitter.

What is surprising to me is the amount of Mastodon left wing influencers who mislead or say very illogical stuff that please their followers.

I had even seen people with high degrees who engage in this misinformation or encourage it, I replied to some of them to tell them the fallacies in their posts and to their credit some of them issued a clarification or deleted their posts, but most of them don't even reply or address the issues in their posts.

All of that lead me to the following probable conclusions:

• They are just saying what will get them more followers/ publicity.
• They are undetected targeted bots.
• They truly believe in what they are saying and don't want to discuss it, which is weird considering the context.

Does anyone have any insight into this?

Ima start- I have an interest in both kidcore and Lolita ~(NOT THE BOOK, ITS A JAPANESE FASHION TREND)~ Fashion. I always wanted to combine the two to get this pastel, simple but kiddish style. Lots of baby blues and pinks, A whole lot of overalls and pig tails. Just cutesy and innocent :D It's like Kidcore but minus the Lego brick color themes. I'd probably call it uhhhh... I think Teenybopper would be cute!

(Please refrain from insulting me in the comments thank you- I'm hella slow and sometimes may not choose the right words when typing. Thank you ^w^)

(This post was intended for [email protected], but as it seems they don't allow text posts, I'm posting it here)

This post will likely not go over well with everyone and some people may not agree with the premise of the question. Mods please remove if not allowed.

I am curious if the MAGA-esque approach to politics is new for the US, or if there have been other examples of similar political movements which may be considered "cult-like". To better define what I mean, here are some examples:

• Large amounts of signs bearing a candidate's name being shown by single individuals (e.g. big trucks covered in Trump signs everywhere)

• Use of a candidate name over the US flag

• Use of a kind of supporter uniform (e.g. the red MAGA hat)

• The "alternative facts" of MAGA, where debate can be impossible because supporters believe anyone who is a detractor must be lying

• In some cases, voter intimidation or coercion from staunch supporters

It seems to me that some of this is new but I'd love to hear other thoughts. I have heard and seen many relatively obvious parallels to German politics in the 20s-40s, but I'm specifically wondering if anything similar has ever been seen in the US before.

Why the Linux ecosystem cannot be considered "standardized", unlike Windows and Mac?

Bad for you specifically or personally. Did you have to do something to leverage it or did it judt naturally unfold to an optimal outcome?

I'm not sure if this is going to sound strange, but I'm so accustomed to the voices of different kinds of people that my mind at this point just registers the many different accents as different voices within one accent (as in my mind doesn't say "oh that's another accent" anymore, it doesn't register it) and I actually miss being able to appreciate peoples' accents as accents, which sucks when for example you're attracted to them.

Question inspired by looking through the photography collection of a very controversial figure, and at one point I spotted her reflection on a spoon at a dinner table, and I thought "wait, is that Anne Hathaway?"

It's always fascinating to know when you secretly have a celebrity in your social circle.

Examples: Itchy & Scratchy from The Simpsons, The Scary Door from Futurama, or The Grand Inquisitor from Dostoevsky.

What about the rest of the Fediverse or other parts of the internet?

Title. This also includes Western animated series in addition to Japanese anime.