Same. If anything, it would be in Spotify’s best interest to steer you away from broadly appealing stuff because they’re the mega artists that probably negotiated a better deal. (I’m guessing here)

Tall people are short people that are tall

Upset that “loop detected” isn’t the fat lööps cat

Straight up misleading. Mentioning AI in the headline and then sneakily switching to “the cloud” (i.e. most of the internet) when discussing figures. They say it uses a similar amount to commercial flights? Fine. Ground the flights, I’d rather have the internet a million times over.

On top of this, there’s lots of ways that they would get the data without secretly listening to microphones, which people may not be aware of in all these anecdotes. In the one above, maybe just one party member googled lab grown diamonds, or perhaps messaged a friend on Facebook messenger about their trick. Not sure if that gets analysed for ads but it’s more plausible than mics. Anyway if they’re all on the same WiFi then they’ll probably be on the same IP and could easily be shown the same ads, making all party members now ripe for a diamond ad.

There’s a well known video of a guy saying “cat food” around his phone, and then his phone shows Google ads for cat food. He concluded that it was secretly listening to him, because there was no other way for Google to get that info other than to shadily tap into his mic. He performs this experiment on a live streamed YouTube video

Snake / snake-in-the-grass has the connotations of fake loyalty, not sure if it’s specifically amongst several groups but it fits.

I use signal a lot and sometimes people’s phones will stop signal from running in the background. This can cause the behaviour you’re seeing, as their phone wont receive the messages until they open the app manually

Pff Nike ripped off Shia Labeouf

So far the only thing I’ve noticed is I can’t play Valorant, and soon League of Legends too.

Must be exhausting!

Fuck you man if you dont like my fucking music, get your own fucking cab. I’ll pull over to the side and kick your ass out.

To quote pink Floyd: There is no dark side. Matter of fact, it’s all dark.

It does if lots of people use it incorrectly

It’s pushing me to the real world instead of Reddit, so a great success overall.

I know some small petty things!

You say “off of”. In the UK we just say off. “Get off my lawn” Vs “Get off of my lawn”. Why do you need the extra word?

You call pasta noodles. Pasta is not noodles.

I once got kicked off (of) a beach at 9pm by a police officer. Wtf? It’s the beach, who cares if I’m on it at night? And why is it so important to have a police car patrolling it?

On that note, trespassing seems much more serious in America. In a lot of the world you can just wander around, if it’s on somebody else’s land it’s no big deal as long as you don’t cause a mess.

For the culture thing, Americans are generally louder and less subtle than any other nationality. They’re more friendly and energetic. There’s a certain type of dry sarcastic humour that never lands with Americans. I don’t want to call it British humour because there’s never any confusion with the rest of Europe

Why the fuck would they put all their nuclear waste in a cube and leave it by the sea in Marseille. Those french morons.