No pre-orders, ever.

Stand strong.

She needs to check herself. Fucking psychopathic traitor.

Thing us, planning to sell secrets (or commit violence) is sufficient cause, which implies that promises to leak secrets they don’t (yet) have would be a criminal act.

She’s been working with the separatist vermin who have directly been lobbying the US for the breakup of Canada. If they can show that Sylvestre et al have committed treason, then 46.2(e) might be applicable.

Honestly, they should have gone with sedition.

“Stop requiring oversight or safety on our farms.”

I thought I recognised her name: she is chief of staff to David Bexte, the MP who is trying to pushbthour automatic approval after 90 days for new fertilizers and pesticides. He is also the father of recist and misogynist Keean Bexte.

Racist bullshit.

Didn’t mulch the beets enough - they’re still alive.

Waterfox.

We moved a few weeks ago. Yesterday afternoon, my new neighbour who I had not yet met yelled over the fence at me. We met up out front, introduced ourselves, did the social thing, and then he said “hey, your new house has an air conditioner, and there’s a cover on it. You probably want to take that off.”

He was right. I did. Thanks new neighbour, for being…well, for being a neighbour.

Mostly, seeing my family succeed.

I’m not very happy very often, but I watched my son get award after award last week, and was happy. A year ago, my wife finished her Masters’ degree with a 4.0 GPA, and I was happy.

Personally, this morning I went for the first >100km motorcycle ride of the season. Once I was out of traffic and riding through some of the prettiest scenery on the planet, I was happy.

Three words:

Fuck Off “Bud.”

May you and your late stage capitalist greed be remembered in the history books as ‘one of the reasons for the collapse.’

Try a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser.

Oi’ve no doubt, but where? I’m coming up blank.

Oh right. It’s been so long since I used eBay that I forgot entirely about saved searches.

I’ll definitely do that, and keep looking for other sources/options.

The comments that ‘question the narrative’ get downvoted because they make claims that are opposed by the evidence.

This is a racist, anti-imigrant dogwhistle. Don’t give them then satisfaction of being taken seriosly

Don’t give them the satisfaction of evem considering it. Ignore the impossible hypotheticals.

Alberta Can Not and Will Not Separate.

End of the fucking story.

Boo fuckin’ hoo.

Charge what you need for a modest net profit. Surveillance pricing is just the perfect refinement of capitalist cruelty.

No, it really doesn’t.

Gun ownership is not and should not be a right. It is a responsibility, and a serious one at that. If you want a firearm, you need to train and prove yourself safe, responsible, and justified.

US gun laws have created the US gun culture, where people will accept hundreds TENS OF THOUSANDS of deaths a year, for ‘freedom.’

Also, let’s not forget that the 2nd amendment was brought in during a time of flintlocks. They were NOT protecting one’s freedom to walk into McDonald’s with a MAC-10 down their pants.

Perhaps most telling though, is that the US is currently NOT a free state, and the ‘well-regulated militia’ has not stood up to them. In fact, there has never been a well regulated militia in the US to stand up to government tyranny, just a bunch of doomsday preppers who delude themselves into believing their arsenal is spiritually annointed by James Madison and God, in that order.

So, no. No fucking second amendment in Canada,bthank you very much.

Many factors at work here.

First off, mp3 at 320 kbps (or 256 for that matter) encoded with modern algorithms will be nearly idrntical to the original source. I defy you to reliably tell it apart from a FLAC in an A/B test. Where it usually fails is in stereo imaging, not obvious distortion or frequency limitations.

Secondly, many people have mentioned normalization (actually compression) in streaming services. When applied after the mix, i.e. exactly what they do, it ruins music. If you can turn off every ‘feature’ in these services that modifies the sound, you’ll find improvements.

Thirdly, you’re not necessarily getting great sound from them anyway. Spotify defaults to 96kbps Vorbis which is comparable to 128kbps mp3. And if your network speeds are low or laggy, it may well drop the quality dynamically to keep playing without glitches.

Fourth, there’s the issue of mastering. You may have a differently-mastered release than what is on the streaming site. This can make a HUGE difference in some cases. If you can, try listening to Dark Side of the Moon releases from 2003 (Doug Sax) vs. the 2023 blu-ray.

And those are only the most likely candidates. There could well be other factors at play.