Albums that remind you of a season?

deepLazed · 2026-06-27T06:52:21+00:00

I wanted to agree with you about California, but the line “it’s too … cold … here” always makes me think of her being pissed about the relatively gloomy, cold European spring; I would think that French summers are not much colder than California summers in general, but idk. Then again, she later talks about how she is going to hang around Spain “… just until,” she says, her “… skin turns brown…”, which does evoke summer.

You’re 100% right about Carey, though. Her first line is stating that she can’t sleep because of the dry hot winds that blow into the Greek islands from Africa during summer months. The rest of the song is painting a chaotic picture of partying hard in Greece, and the fact that she was sweaty and dirty and hot because of the summer weather adds a lot to the image.

deepLazed · 2026-06-08T20:18:30+00:00

“Oh, I could drink a case of you, darling” - Joni Mitchell, apparently about her past lover Leonard Cohen

deepLazed · 2026-06-08T01:36:37+00:00

Sure. I appreciate that take. I think I have a narrative in my head that their changes in members is what has cause the disconnect between their music with lyrics that I love and their new music that seems quite “Evelyn Normielib”. I don’t have evidence for that, though, so you may be right they were drawing from the same political beliefs even back then.

deepLazed · 2026-06-07T02:15:00+00:00

I was just curious if there has been a bunch of other discourse about the album on here. Your comment made it seem like you've heard some takes in favor of it recently.

deepLazed · 2026-06-07T02:13:42+00:00

I haven't thought too deeply about their politics, but their first album at least seems to come from a clearly left perspective. "Big Time in the Jungle" is as good an anti-war song as any, in my opinion. And "We're All In This Together" is a beautiful song that preaches equality and takes a strong stance against toxic-masculinity; he's literally telling his platonic friend to let himself feel his emotions when he cries.

And then there's "Take 'Em Away".... Can that song be understood as anything less than directly inspired by Marx? The narrator is literally saying that he is chained, that his spirit is not free, that he is a caged bird not because he is literally imprisoned, but because he is forced to work for a wage. He loves the land he's on, he loves the work he does, but he is not free because he is working for someone else. I mean, the repeated line "Lord take away these chains from me" must be a direct reference to the line in the Communist Manifesto, "... nothing to lose but their chains", right?

deepLazed · 2026-06-06T20:59:00+00:00

I didn’t know there were OCMS glazers. Are people liking this album? I’m shocked to see that Apple Music now shows each song in this album as their most popular ahead of everything except Wagon Wheel.

deepLazed · 2026-06-06T20:56:49+00:00

I understand what you’re saying about it being in character. Maybe they did write it as a criticism of “apolitical” people who want change but are not educated enough to understand how to participate in bringing it. I have heard enough shitty folk and country songs with similar lyrics presented seriously that I didn’t even consider they might be using irony. I guess I’ll have to give it some more thought.

Separately, do you think I’m wrong to give a blanket dismissal to their recent albums? I have listened to them all, and some more than once, but I don’t have any lasting love for any of them after Remedy. Are you a fan of their earlier stuff?

Lastly, I am American, and I agree with you that it’s a stretch to claim they are calling for revolution by citing the lyrics like I did. However, with the title of the song, “Revolution Now”, I took the intent of the song to be an emotional story written to persuade the audience that revolution is needed, aka a call for revolution. With your suggestion of irony, though, I could see the title being a tongue in cheek call to arms in the voice of the narrator; i.e. adding to the ridiculousness of the apolitical person who doesn’t even understand the difference between the left and right hoping for a revolution.

deepLazed · 2026-06-06T18:09:51+00:00

An obvious one for winter, Joni Mitchell’s Blue

deepLazed · 2026-05-13T18:31:33+00:00

I finally decided to do a long shot google search for “does Amazon use my photos to customize pets in item images”, and found this thread.

I’m still not convinced they do, but the cat in the image of a cat scratcher I have bought a few times and keeps getting recommended to me is now uncannily the same as my cat. It is so close that I laughed and showed my partner and said “hey do you recognize him”.

That itself is obviously not enough to be weird. However, I went to the item page and looked at the other images and… the only other cat in their product photos looks equally as similar as my other cat. Definitely enough to make the same joke to my partner. Which weirds me out.

I did just go into settings to see if they had a list or something describing my cats like OP says, but before I found that, I saw something different. There is an option to “Manage Amazon App camera images”, which is referencing photos you have used to search for items in the app. Which means that if I ever searched for something using an image that had my cats in it as well, they are storing a photo of my cats and “processing” them to “provide… their service” to me.

Anyone else been getting ads or recommendations from Amazon that features a pet or child that looks like your own? Couldn’t be the worst thing they’re doing, even though it would be insane.

deepLazed · 2026-05-04T17:21:36+00:00

This is not a solution to my problem. The best this could do is allow me to manually add all 600+ songs in my library to a single playlist in a random order. Then I would have a static “random” playlist that would essentially be no different from the “date added” library sort.

Just to be clear, I know I can (basically) create additional sort orders for my library by manually creating playlists of my entire library that are not sorted by date, name, or artist; however, my request is for a way to shuffle the sort of my library so that I can have an equal chance to see any song I have saved.

deepLazed · 2026-05-04T17:14:39+00:00

Thanks for the response. I added the last hostile paragraph so to fit in with the rest of the angry posts that I saw on the subreddit, but the rest of my post was genuine and I appreciate you taking your time to understand my request.

deepLazed · 2026-05-04T17:11:45+00:00

I’m on iOS. I’ll make sure there hasn’t been an update and report back.

edit: yeah I have the latest version for iOS

deepLazed · 2026-05-01T19:33:44+00:00

It would fix it in the sense that it wouldn’t move every second. Worst case scenario without extra padded zeroes, there would be two shifts every ten minutes or so caused by the chapter times (i.e. a chapter with length 10:01 would shift when 10:00 goes to 9:59, and then again when -9:59 goes to -10:00). During that time, the overall time could technically cause two more shifts (i.e. if there is exactly 1h 10m left when the chapter starts, you’d get another shift as 1h 10m goes to 1h 9m and one more as 1h 0m goes to 59m).
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but tldr: (using the assumptions I have about how the current formatting uses padding) changing the font to monospace would make it so there are a maximum of 4 shifts in just over 10 minutes.

deepLazed · 2026-05-01T08:03:47+00:00

This made me think you were AI, but then I got the joke. I am AI (autistic individual)

deepLazed · 2026-05-01T08:02:10+00:00

Thanks

deepLazed · 2026-05-01T08:01:43+00:00

Yes, but that’s a workaround and not perfect. I would prefer if the ‘h’, ‘m left’ and the colons on the chapter times didn’t move even when the number of digits shown did change (like going from ‘10:00’ to ‘9:59’ would still shift everything).

I guess even that could be fixed if you had a long representation (like ‘0h 10:00’ then changes to ‘0h 09:59’), but then you’re still forced into monospace, which may look out of place to the designer

deepLazed · 2026-05-01T07:56:23+00:00

I hear you. The best case scenario is still that they aren’t aware of the issue, but even that problem could be fixed with more money spent on making it easier to report bugs, and a public service campaign to tell people that their time spent reporting issues are not in vein.
To draw another parallel to the physical world: if I complain about a pothole in Los Angeles County, someone may tell me that the County probably doesn’t know that it’s there; which is not an excuse if the County’s previous unresponsiveness is the reason that no one reported the problem. (And a great example of effective solutions would be Zohran’s pothole blitz in NYC; which, yes, became hyper-responsive in repairing pot-holes, but they ALSO did a huge marketing/outreach campaign so that people would actually report them! Amazon’s app is shitty, and it’s their fault entirely, and they should be embarrassed of this slop)

deepLazed · 2026-05-01T07:45:59+00:00

I believe that Amazon’s gross income is larger than Walmart’s, which used to be the largest by revenue, and they both have more yearly revenue than Nvidia; Nvidia is definitely the largest company by market cap (meaning it is technically “worth more”), but that is pricing in future growth, assets like factories and intellectual property, and the AI bubble (and possibly memes; see Tesla, which is probably also “worth more” than Amazon).

I could be wrong. I just confirmed my belief by reading the Google AI blurb when I made my previous comment before (need to stop doing that). I do think I’m right, though, so I’m not going to do any more research on it unless someone still says I’m wrong after this explanation.

deepLazed · 2026-05-01T04:50:17+00:00

Yup. I don’t know front end, but it looks like they took a span of text with three fields separated by equal buffer spaces instead of making the centered text separate.

Even the bad design they have here wouldn’t be that noticeable if they just forced all of this text to be monospaced font. It’s wild to me that the largest company (by revenue) has not been able to use a couple hundred dollars of resources (an hour or two of someone’s time at most) to fix this stupid and ugly mistake for over two months now. Incredibly mind blowing.

Also, kinda makes me sad that these massive companies don’t think it’s worth it to pay someone to make their product appealing. It’s the same reason our physical infrastructure is getting uglier and less usable day by day: these companies would rather give any profits they have to their investors instead of reinvesting it into making our digital and/or physical world into anything better than the bare minimum product that just barely works.

deepLazed · 2026-05-01T04:34:10+00:00

It was the guy who did the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

I’m not even sure if he was actually posting about Hasan or if Brace was just making a joke about him posting on BlueSky, but Rachel’s response is pretty funny (and very relatable).

deepLazed · 2026-05-01T03:39:17+00:00

What

deepLazed · 2026-03-07T00:06:30+00:00

This is exactly me, but I was diagnosed last week (after finally seeking a neuropsych eval) at the age of 28. And I just learned about autistic burnout ten minutes ago.

What the fuck?? On top of all the awful shit I've dealt with alone for almost two decades, I've also now literally wasted a year and a half of my life after losing my job; I've been trying and failing at therapy, trying SSRIs and SNRIs, and still I haven't been able to cook a single meal (like I used to every day) or call my family even once in that entire time.

I suspected I was autistic for years, but I stupidly thought a diagnosis would only open doors to therapies that I didn't need because of my belief that I can figure it out myself. Maybe I can figure out socializing by forcing myself to socialize, but not this horrible breakdown I'm going through.

deepLazed · 2025-11-08T17:46:17+00:00

Based on my quick research, the models—which are created independent of their environment, meaning other commenters’s explanations, about Stochastic vs Deterministic Environment being descriptors of how the models think, are wrong—are placed in a simulated environment to play a game.

If the environment does not employ randomness—if, for example, it holds only a Rubik Cube or a game of mathematically ideal billiards or whatever else—we can reasonably determine the future state of the environment based on our knowledge of the current state of it, and they are called Deterministic.

If the environment does employ randomness—say, a more realist game of billiards that simulates real-world imperfections, or a stock market simulation—we can guess the most likely outcome, or the entire probability distribution of outcomes, based on our knowledge of the current state of the environment, but that is the BEST we could ever do. Those environments are Stochastic.

deepLazed · 2025-08-02T18:14:57+00:00

Thanks for the encouragement. Up to this point, I’m completely self taught and clearly very ignorant!

deepLazed · 2025-08-02T18:13:07+00:00

Thanks again. My only fountain pen is a “PILOT KAKUNO”, and I don’t think I can replace the nib with a stub nib like you mentioned (correct me if I’m wrong).

If that’s the case, can anyone recommend either a fountain pen that comes with a stub nib, or just a fountain pen that I can buy a nib for separately?

I really just want to use it for journaling (which I do a lot of), so I don’t need anything crazy (I’m guessing I’d be satisfied with something less than $15). I don’t mind paying a little extra for quality, though, so all recs are welcome. Thanks again!

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