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When walking by / through vehicles in a parking lot with things in my hands, I will make the conscious effort to pull my arms close to my body and prevent them swaying or moving with my normal walk. As well as moving items from one hand to the other if the car is on the side that was holding them. Nobody likes scratches and dings!

Zee shell, or zish or just each letter ze es aych depends on my mood and if I’m feeling spicy.

Most of my playlists are actually by artist. Silly as it sounds I will put whole albums by the same artist in release order into new playlists by their name so I can just ask Siri to “play playlist <artist name>” and listen to the albums in order as I tend to listen to whole albums. The other playlists are like my year in review playlists that were automatically generated and some curated playlists like “weekly new music” and “top alternative” type stuff that I didn’t create but added and listen to often.

If I want a mix of stuff I like, I don’t turn to playlists anymore and instead I just ask Siri to “play some music” because the “just for you” radio is so good that I get tons of hits and top songs for my own taste as well as discover tons of new to me music that gets sprinkled in that the algorithm finds for me.

If the “play some music” stuff ends up not what I want to hear right then, I’ll just make the same request again or “play some different music” and it will switch to other music it knows I like. This is helpful when one request sends me down electronic path when I want more alt rock, etc.

A predatory bird, which would give me extra cones and rods to see more colors / spectrum as well as possibly telescopic vision.

A shark, so I can swim better and breathe underwater. Then maybe I won’t be so afraid of large bodies of water.

I moved to mbin too, as Ernest was obviously unable to commit the time and resources needed while he has been dealing with life and health related issues. The real bummer is the complete lack of willingness to accept or recognize help when it’s required so the least I could do to help the project was actually to stop using it and remove my usage from the servers he wouldn’t be able to maintain. It’s sad but the fediverse is functioning as intended here, being able to move around is a core feature. I hope he recovers well.

Go for a run or cold shower. Get your heart rate up, similar effect.

All the mythological cures rely on one specific thing: focusing on a task or overriding your brain’s autonomic systems with adrenaline (get scared). Don’t think about it and do something else with as much concentration as you can will. Sorry if you’re ADHD.

A reverse proxy will solve this for you in an afternoon of setup :)

Lawful Neutral, ctrl.

This! Using my knowledge and practice to practical effect and being thanked for it is genuinely the best feeling! Even if it’s transactional, it’s still nice to feel like a job well done after all the years of effort and craft.

Been using it since it launched- it knows my taste inside and out and has been the source of a quadrupling of my library of music. The radio discovery is insanely well tuned for me and the cost is just fine compared to buying music. Other than that idk how much I believe that AM pays artists more mostly because the real thieves are the labels who aren’t letting the money make it to the artists. But if so, that’s a bonus. It also works seamlessly in the ecosystem to the point of being an actively sought feature for me as someone who has several devices therein. There’s also some nice extensions that automatically convert links from any music service to AM and back so I never feel like all my Spotify friends leave me behind because sharing music is automatically converted on my end. Rarely is something not available on either service.

The Office, basically it wouldn’t change anything because I already speak in mostly deep cut quotes and references from the show.