Brah's probably not a fan of this clip...

https://youtube.com/shorts/TVfMndcXk8c

Going against the trend here, but i wouldn't be without spotify. We use the family sub, so I've got separate accounts for the family and for our smart speakers. My parents also use my account. We listen to a lot of music and podcasts, and it just works.

Beyond that the only other sub i have is Amazon prime, which we're kind of stuck with as all our photos are in the cloud using their service. It works pretty well and the fire TV does a slideshow so we actually look at them from time to time.

The rest of the streaming subs we've had in the past are long gone. IPTV does the lot, which I use through express VPN.

The NME (popular British music paper) had a website with a chat room/board that I was active on in the late 90s. I was about 17.

They also gave you free webmail with a @nme.com address, so you felt like a music journalist. Unfortunately, they shut it all down out of the blue in the 00s, with little warning, so I lost my primary email address. Would love to recover all those messages, but they are gone forever.

Dogs can't look up

Too late, I'm already banned

Same! Back in the day my new flatmate, who was recently divorced, called me from work to say the delivery guy would be arriving with a new TV for the flat. I ended up having to help him lift it up 4 flights of stairs. It weighed an absolute tonne and my body ached for days. I didn't complain though as he paid for it :-)

I think it’s a bit of a stretch to say it’s all baseless. It could just as easily be the passing down of allegorical tales — stories seeded by some guiding or controlling force countless generations ago in our collective development. There are even arguments for things like a collective consciousness or sub-atomic networks, suggesting that our linear experience of time might just be a way of processing information.

Honestly, who really knows? But speaking as someone who has oscillated between Christianity, Buddhism, and atheism in my youth, I’ve come to see atheism as just as much of a limiting dogma as any other belief system.

I think it's a bit of a cunty outlook. I have some sympathy for the childfree brigade, as I understand society can make you feel bad (if you let it) for not having kids. But then again, I wasn't a dad until I was 38 and never experienced any negativity for that decision. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Essentially I dislike any mindset that judges others for their procreative choices.

ITT: a lot of folk buying tech. Including me.

Ha, you've no idea what you're talking about, Amigo. North Sea fish from the waters of Shetland is amazing. Shetland lamb, Scottish Beef. Google it. I suspect it shits all over the drugged up fodder served in American cities :-)

Kind of reassuring that, come the inevitable hostile AI takeover, the weather here in Scotland will come to our aid :-)

My wife still uses reddit now and then, but I can't because I'm banned :-/