bpm

Iirc, the rough delineation is if you remember the challenger disaster = gen x, 9/11 = millennial, covid = gen z, after that = gen alpha.

Ilya Naishuller has some fun stuff - check out his video for Leningrad - Kolshik if you haven't already.

Fantastic Planet's score was also sampled heavily on Quasimoto's "The Unseen".

are you trying to say "exempted"?

Always worth checking if there's more libraries you're eligible for, for the best selection - I've got a card through my local library, one from the next town over (I just need to visit once a year to renew), and a town in California (Sunnyvale) that gives library accounts to anyone who applies. Some libraries will do digital-only accounts for like $20/Year, so that could be worth looking into if your local library doesn't support Overdrive/Libby.

Thanks to the chicken tax, they'll have to keep some manufacturing in the USA. Maybe this will be what finally kills it.

BBW is "big beautiful women". BMW is a German car make.

So every so often, you'd get someone whose 3 series wouldn't shift out of park getting advice from horny men who love fat women.

"I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

There was apparently a significant population of German car mechanics on /r/BBW as well.

lost redditors was great fun, I remember that /r/Burial (about the musical artist) used to keep a running count of confused morticians that would wander in.

Calcifer is the fire demon from Howl's Moving Castle - I'd guess it's a reference to that?

"on god" is just zoomer slang.

They're great work laptops, as long as you treat them as basically disposable. If I have a problem, just turn it into IT and grab another, pull down the repos and I'm off. Wouldn't buy one with my own money, though.