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I think the spotify shuffle+ algorithm weighs songs more when you’ve liked them more recently.

I’m also fairly confident the artist’s contract impacts the weight as well, especially for suggested songs not in your playlist.

Songs from the backlog get played, but at a much lower frequency. Random should have a relatively flat distribution, not a skewed bell curve.

Its rare to find a friend who will try new things. Super great to just say, “lets do this thing!” and them to emphatically agree 😁 I used to have no choice but to do those things alone.

Lonliness is a significant driver of depression in modern society. Finding community and relationships can absolutely help. In fact friends and partners are generally the first people we need to talk to about our feelings.

The murder at home…

Look at the antisemite over here…

I’ve changed my mind, I’m ok with kink shaming in some cases

They were selected to preserve the climate they contain but it turns out climate change changes climates.

Windows is already occupying your hardware and network with “telemetry”. I would be surprised if telemetry overhead alone was all that was needed to burden modern hardware and yet when i boot into windows those fans never shut up.

this and

Well this and a shorter work day/week so one doesn’t have to chose between a social life, a healthy body, home upkeep, child care, and self care. Maybe sprinkle in some accessible and free healthcare both physical and mental. Idk, wouldn’t be the first time i was wrong about something.