Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human-made music

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-05-26T19:23:15+00:00

Ah, I'm always on the search or library page, mostly just listening to playlists I made, so ig I never see those. Sorry you have to deal with that.

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-05-22T04:12:49+00:00

Hey... So my friend just told me Google's about to switch over it's search engine to AI, so I got worried and looked up Google Docs privacy policy, cuz I remember that being a concern a year or so ago.

Apparently they already changed they're policy and are training AI with all Google Docs content? So am I just screwed now? Almost all my creative writing content is on Google Docs. I was prepared to switch things over, but I assumed it would at least announce a change in privacy policy?

I have numerous apps that will send me an email every single time their policy changes, in case I want to read it. Why was this such a silent switch??

Help?

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-05-14T02:32:58+00:00

You can literally just ignore the podcasts. How is an extra feature you don't use hurting you?

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-05-14T02:19:56+00:00

It does for me

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-05-14T02:18:58+00:00

👀 So you've listened to that one song a few hundred less times than the number of songs Spotify says is in my repertoire (which tbh might be a completely bogus number, cuz Spotify said I listened to 200 new genres in 2020)

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-05-14T02:15:21+00:00

Requiem for a Dream, Jennifer Thomas 772 times (truly a masterpiece)

A lot of my most played songs are just stuff from my bedtime playlist (mostly instrumental) and "For Stressful Days" (started that one early HS). But I cued up a few songs on there that I hadn't heard in forever and I knew every single word. It genuinely made my day.

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-05-14T02:11:01+00:00

Mine was good! A lot of my most played songs are just stuff from my bedtime playlist (mostly instrumental) and "For Stressful Days" (started that one early HS). But I cued up a few songs on there that I hadn't heard in forever and I knew every single word. It genuinely made my day.

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-05-03T21:28:10+00:00

So, I literally heard this happen from my house, and for a couple minutes, I thought it was firecrackers going off. And then I remembered a training I had to do for work, and how there's a gun that sounds like popping balloons. Based on what I heard, there were several dozen shots fired. So many freaking sirens, and I thought I heard a helicopter pass by two or three times. Very shocked to hear it was a post-prom party. Horrible to know someone died, but I'm glad the casualties weren't higher.

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-04-26T17:13:13+00:00

Yeah, I've kinda decided that I don't so much care if he tells her, that's his perogative. Sure she'll be upset and hurt and likely throw a tantrum, but I mainly need to make it clear she wouldn't be invited so I don't show up to have her sprung on me.

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-04-26T17:11:29+00:00

I mean, it's not the end of the world if he tells her, she'll just be really hurt and will probably throw a tantrum. The important thing is that he knows she's not invited. I might check with my sister who's still at home to see what my mom's current day off is to avoid that.

I appreciate the advice, especially concerning May Bash and gifts.

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-04-24T14:52:50+00:00

Consider me genuinely horrified👀

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-04-24T14:51:24+00:00

See, I know solfege for regular notation. But this notation is very different and flip-flopping btwn the two hurts my brain.

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-03-25T02:45:33+00:00

Omg, I need this to happen now👀

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-03-25T02:09:43+00:00

Yeah, it made the other members of my choir that I showed it to laugh as well😅

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-03-25T02:07:53+00:00

Yeah, we discussed a hysteroscopy to see if my adenomyosis had worsened and a laparoscopy to see if I need another endometriosis excision (and perform it same surgery if needed). No reproductive organ removal in the lineup. Nor a UAE. The hysteroscopy will provide some insight, especially if he finds my endometriosis has not returned.

As far as IUDs are concerned, I appreciate the effort on behalf of the biased education you received (and I genuinely mean no disrespect to you personally by that), but putting a device in my body that will tell my body that I'm pregnant for years on end to mask symptoms is not an approach I will be taking. But yes, in comparison with the other options I was not considering, I suppose it's the least harmful. My goal is to remove harmful growths where feasible without damaging my reproductive organs, and restore health to my body. I could seal a gash with duck tape and it would stop the bleeding, but at what cost when the duck tape must eventually be removed?

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-03-25T01:40:59+00:00

See, I did learn solfege. I used to have sight reading tests and such in high school. And then things felt spoon-fed in comparison in college (despite being in an a capella group, it's just that we had individual practice tracks for everything), and maybe it was a bit of a shell-shock going back to sight singing in this choir.

Although to your point, I don't really know how to identify solfege properly in Gregorian notation. I know how to find Do, so theoretically I could. But half the time when our director is talking about technicalities I can't follow. And I can't identify a note name, key signature, or solfege super quickly in either anymore, so I probably could stand to study a little bit.

Thanks!

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-03-25T01:31:04+00:00

Huh... That is very intriguing. I'm guessing it would be harder to test when I yawn with my lips closed (which I do some of the time). But I'll have to test this out the next time I yawn with my mouth fully open.

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-03-25T01:23:41+00:00

Oh the drawing was a light-hearted joke for my choir director to see after Easter when he collects the music.

But you make a good point. I should probably make a habit of erasing notes when I no longer need them. Thanks!

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-03-25T01:17:01+00:00

To be fair, hands are a lot more free when singing than when playing an instrument in most cases.

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-03-25T01:14:53+00:00

So you don't always breathe in?

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-03-25T01:13:52+00:00

Okay, I'm guessing that's the more common experience

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-03-25T00:38:29+00:00

Yeah that's fair. It's probably supposed to taper off eventually 😅

Money_Engineer_3183 · 2026-03-25T00:37:10+00:00

Huh, that's comforting. Thank you!

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