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Cake day: April 29th, 2023

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  • Try getting older!

    A decade ago, I was extremely into hi-fi — most of my disposable income went to it. (Martin Logan electrostatic speakers and McIntosh amps, stereo JL Fathom 13.5” subs, sound treatment and reference mic for balancing and analysis …)

    Now? I’m perfectly and completely pleased with my AirPods Max. My hearing just ain’t what it used to be, and I genuinely don’t hear the slightest difference. (… obviously modulo feeling the bass, hah.)

    (Yes. I listen to music over Bluetooth. Not even APT-X. WHO HAVE I BECOME? 😭)




  • Yeah; it feels a little naive to think “bad associations with the word” come from past-tense propaganda instead of current-tense propaganda.

    Like, nobody cares if you say “mother-fucker” anymore; and that was unthinkable, what, two decades ago? Less?

    Without active, current, pervasive propaganda about the ‘bad intentions’ of the left, the word ‘communist’ would also lose stigma in the U.S. within a similar timeframe.

    (I’m open to being told I’m wrong about this …)