part of me wants to believe somewhere down the line, days, weeks, months, years – they’ll have a sudden realization in the shower or before bed, and never stop cringing internally

the more realistic part of me knows in my heart that that moment may never come without being gently prodded towards it.

my headcanon, ruined!

that may be, but the headcanon of someone going “no, actually, I have communed and become one with the beetles and they are totally chill” is funnier to me

We know what you’re thinking but this does not want to kill you

Says who? Maybe it desperately wants to but mother nature simply hasn’t given it a mechanism for doing so. Yet.

edit: who is the one downvote – do you know something we don’t? are you the beetle whisperer? I want to hear this dissent more than you could know.

well, there is an option for “raw media download”, so I’m assuming turning that on will get you the .ogg files you seek if that’s important to you. I honestly don’t care that much as 320kbps .mp3s sound as good as anything else to me.

don’t ask me, I don’t know specifically how it works. I just know with a premium spotify account it’ll give you 320kbps mp3s, without, you’re limited to 128kbps. Sets the album artwork and the tags automatically, it’s great.

try OnTheSpot.

that is because this meaningless platitude is supposed to statistically be applicable to most people, it does not actually guarantee squat.

In other words, hope and pray you’re in the majority.

“Why do we even have that space suit?”

Hey, long as you’re working on it. I’ve been working on ripping my entire music collection from Spotify the past couple months before I tell them to go fuck themselves for the ICE ads, after ~10 years of paying for their service. I’m aiming to be done before January.

sounds to me like all of your shows should become free. Properly free.

Remember, companies die when people stop giving them money.

keep going, I’m almost there

I know this is a shitpost, but

“Your details are […] not stored”

“We’ll search for you in our database of breached personal information”

you know, it would’ve cost you zero dollars to not post sexy grinch.

Not one red cent.

It’s not different at all, is it Steve?!

I fucking despise this kind of gaslighting. YouTube does it too, with their “experiencing interruptions?” popup that then takes you right to the FAQ section telling you to disable your adblocker and that it may cause problems. no, you drooling fucking simpletons, you are causing problems deliberately, problems I will circumvent without disabling anything out of pure spite.

[jaunty guitar begins]

authentic first-hand piss drinking experience, the kind of content that only lemmy could deliver. excellent

The more they alter, the more chance it is they fuck it up somewhere.

there is no possible way “100% democrats in the files” just goes without any pushback, so yeah either they’re totally unredacted and unaltered (likely, comes with its own set of problems) or the democrats absolutely will ratfuck the others.

personally I think the most likely outcome is that Trump’s name appears far fewer times than we expect (after they’ve, yanno, had their way with the files). Maybe a couple instances to satisfy the public that he was a skeezy fuck, but anything that implicates him in something serious will be changed to point to someone else’s name. Usually a Democrat, maybe sometimes the RINO of the week. You’d then just have to make sure every document agreed with every other document – say, dozens of people working in teams for a few months could get that done. Say, weren’t a team of FBI agents doing exactly that not too long ago? Sorting through all the files, looking for every instance of Trump’s name? Wonder what’s up with that.

That would be the smartest way to alter the files. Leave everything else untouched, just make sure the golden orange boy old fuck isn’t smeared. Are they smart enough to do that? Possibly. Maybe. Hopefully not, because the “100% democrats” shitshow would be hilarious to watch