I don't recommend it, but it can definitely give you a perspective of the kind of shit people have to put up with
It might be plenty, depending on your emergency. But you never know when you might be asked to care for an ill family member, suffer a health setback yourself, or end up out of work in a soft labor market - which we are currently in. It's a risk based decision, but as price-to-earnings of potential investments is currently incredibly high (suggesting unrealistically high future return expectations), I would hedge on the side of more savings rather than earlier investment.
Save up an emergency fund. If you can manage to keep six months to a year's worth of expenses in a savings account, it will give you a huge psychological cushion in rough times. Beyond that, save and invest as early as you can.
Learn how to do basic maintenance on a bicycle, car, motorcycle or whatever else in your life that you depend on. That knowledge and experience will pay dividends the rest of your life.
Mavis Beacon would cry if she were around to see this
Fun fact: Germans are the only people known to float in quicksand, likely due to their lightheartedness and carefree attitudes
I think it's the tendency of producers in that era, around 2000-2010 was peak Loudness War, and many albums were pushed into clipping. IMO it started getting better through the 2010s as the emphasis on radio charts started to wane and listening habits shifted away from earbuds and portables.
That may be a thing with some releases, but I'm convinced that the original pet sounds and even the MFSL mono release are very inferior to that one HDCD stereo release. Still I'm listening to in 16bit/44kHz form, but to me it sounds way higher fidelity and likely is closer to the source. I can pick out instruments and sounds that I didn't hear in the other version.
In general though I find modern 'remasters' are horrible and compressed and I think it's lame that services like Spotify usually have only the most recent (and therefore worst) version of a given album.
May the source be with you
What's interesting is just how different the quality was of some of the stereo releases vs the mono bounces. For an example, the stereo HDCD version of Pet Sounds is a little wack, but even if you joined the two channels to mono it sounds a hundred times better than the shittastic mono release. Got to wonder if they optimized it for AM radio play the way that similarly awful sounding releases in the early 2000s optimized for iPod earbuds.
This is the funniest shit I've seen in ages
They are also private property. How about my machine shop? My acre of land with a garden? A dairy cow?
Is there anything resembling a consensus on that? They're not interested in our toothbrushes as they say, but how about arable land? A machine shop? A work truck?
The Hammer and the Fickle
Right, it's remembering them and using them efficiently that's hard. It's amusing watching coworkers try to flex in vim and then struggle at the most basic tasks.
stolen your homes and land
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private property should be abolished
Pick only one
They do tend to start out that way, until they come off-lease and have Arch installed on them by a Blåhaj-clutching, thigh-high-wearing FOSS enjoyer