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Cake day: August 24th, 2019

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  • tbh spotify solved a lot of headaches I had with organizing my music. I used to torrent full discographies from artists I discovered and organize the files on my PC which took up a lot of space. Eventually I started converting the mp3s to lower bitrates to save on space lol. I also had to spend time and harmonize the album titles and song titles within the folders because sometimes when you download music torrents the ripper likes to put a bunch of stuff or write everything in all caps. Spotify essentially does all that categorizing for me and with Spicetify I don’t even get ads anymore and I’m still on the free plan.

    Only thing I don’t like with them is the algorithm, it’s so bad. Youtube’s is much better, google hasn’t enshitified that yet at least.



  • Thanks for reading! The original theme maker basically mastered the header, as they should since they made the theme. For example, you could always press the / key to bring up the search menu on any page with this theme, it’s just that it wasn’t advertised. Hence, like them, we put the shortcut in the new search bar.

    I’m not 100% sold on the pillbox and I’m looking at ways to think of it differently; it works well on their wiki for various reasons, but I feel it’s a bit out of place on our wiki and there’s an information overload. Still, it allows us to compactly (as you pointed out) direct visitors to areas that we want them to look at, like our marxism portal, or areas of the website that we know they are often looking for. I notice now I didn’t really talk about the pillbox in the article, I might go back in and edit that.









  • There were signs telling people these were dogs, the zoo did it as a marketing gimmick. They look cute as heck. I don’t speak Chinese but if you listen to the video you can tell the visitors found it funny, they’re laughing.

    “It’s a PANdog,” one viewer wrote, while someone else joked: “That’s the Temu version of a panda.”

    They don’t say who these viewers are but I doubt the independent would bother translating a pun from Chinese that works so well, so it’s safe to say these “viewers” were randos on Youtube or Twitter in the Anglosphere. I also doubt Chinese people call something the “temu version” of smth else.

    A whole lot of nothing except to further demonize China and, two for one, try to present it as a failed economy where zoos have to resort to painting dogs so people can see pandas because there’s no pandas in China if you ignore that it’s thanks to the PRC’s efforts that pandas were taken off the endangered species list.