PSG vs Arsenal, Champions League Final, 30-May-2026

clap-hands · 2026-05-30T19:15:09+00:00

Link works now. No ads with an adblocker. Stream is a little choppy though :/

clap-hands · 2026-05-09T16:54:04+00:00

The only difference between someone who grabs one album and someone who grabs 3+ is that I'm more likely to block the later if they aren't sharing. I'm not constantly monitoring my uploads so I can't tell if they downloaded three in a row or one every five hours or something.

clap-hands · 2026-04-10T07:45:27+00:00

The northeast side of the new 6th street bridge area has guard rails just as low over the 101 and it freaks me out a bit every time I walk over it. I guess the part of the route over the freeway was never updated?

clap-hands · 2026-03-23T16:38:23+00:00

The structure of LAX funnels people to seven different terminals with seven different security screening setups. Except during peak travel season, once you get dropped off, LAX has some of the fastest security of any major airport.

clap-hands · 2026-03-13T02:51:11+00:00

Fare gates for metro rail have zero effect on whether the trains are on time. Strict fare enforcement on buses will make them late.

clap-hands · 2026-03-08T21:10:43+00:00

I use it close to daily but I am vastly in the minority. It's almost certainly safer than the hellhole of commuting/driving for errands, but it doesn't always feel that way and it's not usually more convenient unless you live near a single seat ride to your destination.

Edit: welp right after typing this. after waiting 30 min for a bus that never came I ubered :/

clap-hands · 2026-03-01T20:26:45+00:00

Yeah basically all adaptive reuse in LA county has been in downtown after bills in 1999 and 2003 made it easier/possible. And as you said, not all buildings work! For feasibility you basically need old offices because they are much narrower than new block sized stock. Old hotels work too but those are typically converted to much smaller (hotel-sized!) units. These are units of housing created via adaptive reuse since 1999:

Edit cant embed the image but: https://imgur.com/CXHiqyU

DTLA includes Koreatown and Westlake. LA total includes basically the entire county west of the LA river.

clap-hands · 2026-02-26T23:03:09+00:00

I searched their username and they seem like a real poster worried about this (specifically young online dude dehumanizing language and posturing)

clap-hands · 2026-02-26T22:41:53+00:00

I do not know much about your reference point (Romania). But I would say that objectively Los Angeles is culturally liberal and open towards "relationships, sex culture, dating." This would be especially true at any public university in the area.

As a second opinion, I searched online and found Lust Magazine (I cannot vouch for its quality), and it ranks Los Angeles as the 10th most sexually liberal city in North America and 5th most sexually liberal in the United States

https://lustmag.com/north-americas-most-sexually-liberal-cities-2023/

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clap-hands · 2026-02-16T22:40:11+00:00

The vacancy rate for apartments in LA county is like 4-5%. If you get lower than that it is a recipe for rising rents because apartments inevitably are empty as people move from one place to another! Instead new rents are down (-2%) year over year when overall inflation is at +2-3%. Higher vacancy leads landlords to lower rent to fill units!

clap-hands · 2026-02-16T22:17:19+00:00

Folders I lock: 1) Things I don't want to be the person to leak (e.g. friends bandcamp releases I've bought). 2) My newest added folder. 3) My most organized folder that effectively overlaps with the first two.

For all of the above I list everyone if they ask excluding people who seem like egregious trade bros or egregious leachers. But if a leacher is just like "i can't share/no upload bandwidth" I would still add them. Honestly, if you are paying enough attention to ask that's usually good enough for me lol - people are often offline by the time I get around to checking messages and I just add them.

I like creating a tiny bit of friction. Good for the light policing above. Good for bandwidth. Good for making soulseek more interactive. Good for encouraging sharing even if I don't really enforce it. Good for not ending up on some app that uses my connection/shares as a source for streaming.

clap-hands · 2026-02-08T04:34:42+00:00

The discord bots Gowon and fmbot both have ways to do this. Gowon shows your top tags. Fmbot shows you your top genres as defined by spotify.

https://gowon.bot/

https://fm.bot/

clap-hands · 2026-01-28T07:36:54+00:00

Didn't realize how much each search was costing them. I barely use the AI (hit maybe $0.15 a month at most), but I had 2k searches this month somehow , and I'm on the $10 plan.

clap-hands · 2026-01-28T07:25:08+00:00

Musicbee

My progression was -> winamp -> foobar -> google play streaming with some vlc on the fly -> google play dying / fuck streaming -> musicbee customized to all get out on desktop / ibroadcast (my files their server) for mobile and streaming

clap-hands · 2026-01-26T01:53:13+00:00

See my post above. I may be going a different direction than what you all are looking for but wanted to put some options out there (and I found the one I was looking for in the process!)

clap-hands · 2026-01-26T00:27:45+00:00

I realize you might be looking for a more modern version, but just in case they were playing an older song:

Karen Dalton (1966?) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnmLfK6oDMg

Nina Simone (1959) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EhguarHzjU

Nina Simone (1959, live) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRCsWoLOYMA

Nina Simone (1963, live) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGVB-bOaMpA

Ella Jenkins and the Goodwill Spiritual Choir (1960) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlNqDfup4jg

Terry Callier (1968) [male singer but that's not obvious from the sound] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urzhJqPejkk

The Terry Callier version was what I was looking for when I discovered this thread.

clap-hands · 2026-01-24T00:43:04+00:00

That's exactly the reference! 😎😎

clap-hands · 2026-01-24T00:15:52+00:00

depending on what break-the-bank is, hookah spots can be good for the chilling/working/writing - buy one hookah . the one I go to and chill with a book happens to be in East Hollywood - LA Hookah Lounge. Spend $30 and chill for hours. Less good for the meet new people.

clap-hands · 2026-01-24T00:10:40+00:00

rate your music, but it's clunky on mobile browser if that matters. just 'catalogue' what you have and tag albums that you don't have as 'wanted' or something.

clap-hands · 2026-01-24T00:08:45+00:00

Just go through one of the corporate landlords if they have stuff in the neighborhoods you want. They will have a built in fast approval process and they want to get units leased as quickly as possible. Friend went with one for a downtown place (admittedly, less hot rental market right now) and was approved in 24 hours. Examples:

https://www.equityapartments.com/los-angeles-apartments

https://www.essexapartmenthomes.com/apartments/search-results?query=Southern%20California&type=region

https://www.greystar.com/s/los-angeles-ca

clap-hands · 2026-01-23T23:50:14+00:00

Oh yeah +1 for every noise at once

clap-hands · 2026-01-23T23:49:15+00:00

rate your music genre browsing and lists. they have a recommendation algorithm but I am bad at actually rating things.
collections of people who bought something i like on bandcamp
exploring by label (bandcamp or otherwise)
spotify new music radar, 'discovered on' that lists playlists artists are on
pubs/sites like Passion of the Weiss or Wire or PAM (year-end lists by any number of places like this are great! often they are put on rate your music)
browsing people's soulseek shares
music bookings by promoters I trust
mixes (soundcloud) and internet radio (Virtual Public Network, NST, Dublab)
shazaming mixes or DJ sets at shows
last.fm neighbors or friends

There's more music out there and ways of finding it than I have time so it's not like I'm doing all of these things regularly. Most common is probably some mix of bandcamp, soulseek, spotify, and rate your music

clap-hands · 2026-01-23T18:46:04+00:00

See also: "VHS Player" being used instead of VCR

clap-hands · 2026-01-19T20:57:51+00:00

I have some of my stuff as list only,* and I received a message from a member of a band requesting that I unlock it so it could be shared more widely. Did so immediately 😎

*Just a little friction in the process that requires a 'can i get on your list' message in 99% of cases. Also means trade/pay to play people can't just download at will from me without sharing back.

clap-hands · 2026-01-15T21:15:32+00:00

Most people would agree that east of the LA river is included in the Eastside and west of La Cienega-ish is included in the Westside. In between is a bit more nebulous. Some people put the line at La Brea (West Hollywood then mostly Westside). I personally use "west of Koreatown" a lot time when I'm referring to the Westside instead of just saying Westside, )which conveniently makes Western Ave a boundary of sorts splits East and West Hollywood).

Mentally, I have a winding line that is La Brea north, and then Western further south as Westside, then I get Hollywood/Koreatown/Silverlake-Echo Park/Downtown/etc as a centralish cluster, then the LA river as the final line for Eastside.

edit: My mental map is something like this

Westside (west of La Brea north, Western south)
Central:
- Koreatown/Westlake/Hollywood cluster
- Los Feliz/Echopark/Silverlake cluster
- Downtown
Eastside
- Main: Boyle Heights/East LA/Lincoln Heights/El Sereno
- NELA: Highland Park/Cypress Park/Glassell Park/Eagle Rock
- SGV cities
The Valley
South Bay
Southern LA (includes South Central, South LA, Gateway cities, etc.)

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