I’ve been meeting my music discovery needs with a combination of community radio and bandcamp - plus just talking to friends, though your mileage may vary depending on your friends’ taste.

No, that’s Cartagena, Cortana is a region of Spain

2112 does go fucking hard, Temples of Syrinx was one of my all-time favourite songs, and I listened to it for years on a bad audio system without being able to understand the lyrics properly. Once I started hearing them properly, though, it started feeling a bit sus (I’m a big lyrics person) which lead me to find the interview above. I’m glad to hear they’ve changed since then, though.

Wrote several books about how the rich are rich because they make society gooder and invent all the things, and the poor workers would be lost without them (therefore libertarian capitalism is the best system). Among other proto-fascist ideologies. If you want a longer form, Angela Collier has a really good video that goes in-depth a bit more, “Billionaires want you to know they could have done Physics” on YouTube or Nebula (Ayn Rand portion starts at around 26:00, but the whole video is pretty good)

Slander, Weird Al would never follow the teachings of Ayn Rand (sorry to anyone that this may have killed the band for, it certainly killed them for me).

Edit: I seem to have missed them growing with time. No idea where they stand now

Was he Roderick Heffley???

That’s sort of where I’m at right now to be honest. Google has removed or plan to remove basically everything that gave Android an edge over iOS. Meanwhile Apple, for all their flaws, has actually put out some pretty compelling offerings with the iPhone 17 line both hardware- and software-wise, and has made meaningful improvements in the realm of repairability and side-loading, albeit under regulatory pressure. At this point, it’s looking like going to be harder than I’d like to choose between the two when I go to replace my phone in 3-5 years - provided both companies stay on their current trajectories.

This post from the self-hosted community is probably what you’re looking for, then

Not even, I fear - Matcha Latte is tea.

This… Might just be the modern-day Monopoly

Well then, come, let us touch grass together.

My Jong? Isn’t that the game Chinese grandmas play? (/j)

Pretty sure I’ve commented this on Lemmy before, but I’m gonna drop a link to this Struthless video again because I think it’s pretty good at getting the point and really reflected my experience as someone who was once a “young man on the internet”, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHHqQDKzjTg

TØP is probably the band Twenty One Pilots (stylised as Twenty Øne Pilots), and from Google they have an album called Trench, in the music videos of which people hold flaming torches (haven’t watched the videos, so I don’t know why).

Is that a Robots reference? In the Year of Our Lord 2025? Incredible…

He got a transplant after 100 days, according to the article. This was just to keep him alive until he was able to receive it. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/12/australian-man-survives-100-days-with-artificial-heart-in-world-first-success

There should be an “all” tab or feed that you can go to on your platform - Mastodon has one, not sure about Pixelfed, and Lemmy has one too, that may give you the diversity that you’re looking for?

Free as in freedom, not as in beer.

I drink the water, and then I have to go somewhere else to undrink the water 5 minutes later!