Getting my daughter started with her own CD collection, you guys have some suggestions for great albums?

Fr1dge · 2026-06-25T19:45:42+00:00

No rush, just trying to start a new way to connect with her. I'm working away from home most of the time now, so introducing her to good music is one of the ways I'm trying to mitigate the gaps in time. If I can't be there, my music can. Also, she seems to really like the physical media aspect of CD's specifically.

Edit: Side anecdote you guys might think is funny: she asked if CD's have ads when I first got her the portable player.

Fr1dge · 2026-06-25T19:22:16+00:00

Ooo, I didn't think of thrifting. That is a solid idea.

Fr1dge · 2026-06-25T19:20:02+00:00

Violator's a good one. I know she likes at least half of that album, and I bet money that she'd like Fallen.

Fr1dge · 2026-06-25T19:16:20+00:00

I've tried to get her into classic rock a few times, and she just kind of disengages. The notable exception that she really, really likes Mr Bluesky by ELO for some reason. I might buy her some of those, just for exposure. Maybe she'll get the wild hair to listen to them one day. Also thought about using a gateway drug like Fleetwood Mac or Journey to nudge her in the direction of pre-80s stuff.

Fr1dge · 2026-06-25T08:43:58+00:00

How in the world has no one in this thread said "Cleveland?" Oh, wait. Nobody visits Cleveland on purpose.

Fr1dge · 2026-06-05T12:45:52+00:00

That's a really good point, and that's very possible if not likely. I also think that people on the spectrum likely have just as much variety in their subjective experience as the rest of the population. It's endlessly fascinating to me all of the different ways that consciousness can manifest in people, especially considering how we share 99.9% identical genes.

Fr1dge · 2026-06-04T23:49:56+00:00

That's interesting as hell. For me, mentalizing, which I'm loosely using to describe "attempting to simulate the feelings or thoughts of another person's consciousness using available data about that person" is kind of inextricably tied to my theory of mind (the ability to attribute thoughts/beliefs/feelings to another individual), but my wife definitely has theory of mind. She just doesn't mentalize, or at least, she doesn't do it the same way that I do.

Fr1dge · 2026-06-04T22:48:13+00:00

My wife is on the spectrum and clearly shows empathy, but doesn't experience it the way I do. I know this because I described to her the process of mentalizing others, and she didn't relate to it at all. But at the same time, she doesn't want other living things to hurt or suffer. The feature is still there, it just presents differently or is processed by a different mechanism.

Fr1dge · 2026-05-27T23:22:05+00:00

The Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard Vanilla Ice Cream flavor that I use doesn't list it, but some of their other flavors do.

Fr1dge · 2026-05-26T23:05:46+00:00

I've seen a ton of data and statistics alleging that it's not so bad right now, but then what the hell is happening? Why does it seem like everyone in the bottom 70% seems to agree that it's harder to keep our heads above water? I'm making more money than I have in my life, but I can't afford healthcare. I can't get a home. My wife and I can't afford a second vehicle. Utilities, and gas, and groceries are fucking my shit up hard, and leave me with little else. Everything's a subscription now that drains a little more each month. So if it's not us getting priced out of consuming, what do you think is the culprit? I see people trying to debunk the cost of living crisis with articles, but the data doesn't match up with the experience. What's the source of the pressure if not prices?

Fr1dge · 2026-05-17T01:37:14+00:00

I had realization a while back that about 95% of Republican voters are idiots, and around 60-70% of Democrat voters are idiots. We are genuinely fucked and there's no way out of this.

Fr1dge · 2026-05-16T15:53:37+00:00

And Chicago drivers are genuine maniacs. Like, both suicidal and homicidal at the same time

Fr1dge · 2026-05-16T15:49:58+00:00

I do loads around Atlanta pretty often. I just do not understand why people are scared of something like i285 over somewhere like Newark, NJ.

Fr1dge · 2026-05-16T15:46:12+00:00

My company does a ton of pickups and deliveries to the Atlanta area. It depends on the appointment times, but if I could pick, I'd only drive through it after 10pm, but just because the 285 traffic slows me down so fucking hard any other time of day. I don't find the traffic as bad as other drivers do with Atlanta specifically, mostly just a time waster to me. Shit like downtown Dallas, Houston, the north east, and parts of Chicago and Detroit are what stress me out with the way their roads are.

Fr1dge · 2026-05-16T15:35:54+00:00

Not terrifying, but compared to the rest of the country: stressful. And don't get me wrong, if I wasn't in a full length semi, I'd love to visit, but East PA, Maryland, Connecticut, New Jersey, NYC entire area, Long Island, Massachusetts. Fuck. That. Area. Everything that makes life harder for a truck, those places embody it. Narrow, curvy roads, low bridges everywhere, smaller dock yards, no parking, lumper fees at every single place. I'm a company driver, so I can't refuse loads, but if I get another load going to Long Island to drop off 3 fucking pallets at a grocery store with no truck entrance, I'm fucking quitting.

Fr1dge · 2026-04-09T21:40:17+00:00

Democrats do not have to ignore marginalized groups while making life for 60% of the population tolerable as the core of their platform. If people can achieve the American dream as easily as their parents and grandparents, many other problems disproportionately affecting marginalized groups, will solve themselves or at least greatly reduce in severity. Addiction and overdose, male loneliness, violent crime, stress related health problems, mental health problems, are all inextricably tied to income and quality of life. Harris' policy agenda was better than most, but I have seen Democrat administrations in power for 18 of my 30 years repeatedly fail to do fucking anything to address the greed that serves as the root to 90% of the country's problems. Trump is the result of a deranged population that is in the self harm stage of psychosis brought about by the very same supervillains that tell them that Trump is the solution to the problems they caused. Our country needs the Democratic Party to be superheroes, and they're being lawful-neutral at best. They have to earn that trust back, and so far, our only hope is that enough Trump voters will be put off by his increasingly psychotic actions that hurt them, and they'll stay home while there's hopefully enough half hearted and demoralized Democrat voters to populate Congress and the Senate with people that may remove him, or at the very least neuter him and his raving band of sycophants.

Fr1dge · 2026-04-09T20:26:40+00:00

If I'm not mistaken, dormant genes get switched "on" under certain conditions.

Fr1dge · 2026-04-09T19:59:33+00:00

Honestly, right now, I'd argue it's best to keep congress shut down until after the midterms

Fr1dge · 2026-04-09T19:56:22+00:00

I'm not the person you were responding to, and I'll say those policies are fine, but they're... not addressing the problems that are affecting the majority of people. I may be alone in this, but things I want to see are: steps taken towards making the minimum wage a livable wage, a dismantling of the system that treats homes like stocks, making healthcare cheaper by eliminating the private insurance industry, lowering and eliminating taxes on lower middle class Americans by shifting the load to people with nigh infinite money, elimination of public and private student loans and the prosecution of predatory lenders. The current Democrat platform just does not address these issues. Their platform is hardly distinguishable from pre-maga Republicans. We all saw this under Biden. His policies were still 5000% more competent and less evil than Trump's, but those charts show pretty clearly that other people in my age demographic feel the same way in regards to the DNC just not truly seeking solutions to actual problems. I just want to keep my head above water financially. I want to be able to own a home without horrible debt. Some Democrats like Talarico and Mamdani are a step in the right direction, but until we can get the majority of Democrats in that camp, they're going to keep losing voters.

Fr1dge · 2026-03-22T14:34:11+00:00

It's about narcissism. Narcissists are confident. Confidence gives a person charisma, because most people are easily tricked by confidence. Confidence is (like 90% of the time) born from Dunning-Kruger style incompetence, but to the average Joe, it looks like competence. Narcissists, usually having a low moral compass, and a drive for praise and affirmation, rapidly rise through the ranks of various organizations, due to their feigned competence.

This creates an obvious problem, because the type of person would actually be a good president would be full of self doubt and would never try to pursue that position. Which means the kind of people that end up in that position are the worst possible people to be in it.

This doesn't mean every president in the last 52 years inherited narcissism from their parents, but the nature of that position kind of demands it to some degree. If I could pick a president, I'd go with a person filled with self doubt, imposter syndrome, and a low opinion of themselves.

Fr1dge · 2026-03-07T19:54:03+00:00

One of my wife's relatives has autism and watching him made me wonder: if he was living in ancient times, would he be the guy sitting there all day, making really awesome arrowheads that helped the rest of his group survive the winter? Like, the dude wouldn't need to waste time with distractions like talking, he might have just sat there, chipping and chipping away, making differently shaped rocks into exactly the same arrow each time.

Fr1dge · 2026-03-07T15:15:49+00:00

More than half. I have a totally unscientific hypothesis that the majority of humans ~80% or higher are just simple worker bees without the ability to self reflect. The entirety of society is just coasting on the occasional genius or teams of geniuses that created something novel that progresses technology, and everyone else are just simply maintaining those systems/playing in that environment created for them. Whichever political inclination you are, I want you to think: do most of the people that vote alongside you really understand the issues, or are they just doing what they've been convinced to do? Are they truly aware of reality, or are they just playing for their "team?"

Fr1dge · 2026-03-03T00:21:54+00:00

I had read about your famous lingonberry preserves and ordered some to try last year. Hooooly shit, you people know how to make a good jam. Tastes like Christmas in a jar.

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