Bitter foods are an acquired taste. Sweet foods are not. I remember reading somewhere that sweet foods become less attractive once you’ve grown up, but nothing about bitter foods becoming more attractive.

I always thought that people acquire a taste for coffee for the same reason they acquire a taste for beer: repeated exposure. Coffee is the cheapest caffeinated drink (at least in the US), and beer is the cheapest alcoholic drink. Both taste like ass the first time you drink them, but you put up with the taste because you want to get wired or drunk. After repeated exposure, some people grow to like the taste.

Because black coffee tastes even worse than Monster does. (And has a lot less caffeine.)

It’s a website where you can buy music. I prefer having music in OGG or Opus format, and most of the time you can only get MP3. Bandcamp gives you the option to download your music in several formats, and one of them is OGG.

That’s starting to change, because I can find more file-sharers who are using FLAC as storage becomes cheaper. Then I can convert FLAC to Opus. However, Bandcamp also gives you the option to stream music from their app, and it’s nice to have access to so much music on my phone.

It was 10 days, but, yeah, not a lot of time, especially for one guy. (That one guy was Brendan Eich, by the way.)

You can’t be both the underdog and the king at the same time

So, you hate the New Testament, too?

“Hiccough” is a good one. I always hated that spelling and prefer “hiccup” for that reason.

TIL those are both pronounced the same way. (Gaol/jail is worse, though.)

Yes, English is weird, but this word still breaks rules. “Gh” (pronounced “f”) is never at the beginning of a word, and “ti” (pronounced “sh”) is never at the end.

“apart”

The acronym RINOs refers to Republicans who do not adhere to someone’s preferred right-wing ideology.

Wouldn’t that be RWDNATSPRWIs?

But you can downvote on Facebook. In fact, Facebook is worse because it has a range of emoticons you can use to show your disapproval and/or mockery. So, instead of merely making a number go down, you can actually post a laughing yellow face or a frowny yellow face.

Yes. I find them on Bandcamp.

To some degree or another, all of them were insane, with about a third of them firmly in the grip of cyberpsychosis.

Wow! So, they really are an insane clown posse.

Downvotes should only be used for comments that are off topic, factually incorrect, hateful or made in bad faith etc.

How you think that people should use downvotes and how they actually use downvotes are two separate things.

If you don’t like it, the solution is simple. You don’t argue until you’re blue in the face to get people to change. You remove downvotes.

Downvotes are a bad idea. We should have upvotes only.

I like AI though.

Burn the heretic! Buuuurrrrrnnnn!

How do you shout over somebody in a text forum?

It’s like claiming that you can identify homosexuality through facial recognition. There’s no such thing as a “trans face”. It’s just a silly idea.

Meanwhile, the AI will be handing out false positives to TERFs and hilarity ensues. I see no downside here.

Yet this is what a state is anarchism must devolve into.

What would a “peaceful takeover” even look like?

Use Photoshop once and Gimp is ruined forever.

This is very much like saying “Use Windows once, and Linux is ruined forever”.

Once I actually learned how to use GIMP, I was able to appreciate it. It does things differently than PhotoShop, and, in some cases, I preferred the GIMP way of doing things to PhotoShop. It does take time to learn, though, and you can’t just learn PS and then hop onto GIMP and expect to do things the same way.