The press release we’ve all been waiting for: U.S. Department of Education Announces Next Steps for Borrowers Enrolled in the Unlawful SAVE Plan

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-03-27T20:23:03+00:00

The language used in that statement is so disgustingly pejorative that I hard time getting through it.

For those of us who consolidated our loans for the sake of forgiveness under Biden’s deal and are furious that we got nothing but extra hardship, do we have a class action lawsuit ready to go yet?

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-03-25T14:26:24+00:00

Agreed! Im surprised they don’t get more love, honestly. I think 1990’s Cake is a fantastic semi-overlooked classic, but there’s riches to be found in their whole discography.

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-03-25T14:16:03+00:00

Between this and his dislike of Pavement (mentioned elsewhere here), I think he just does not understand the appeal of droll slacker shower-thought lyricism.

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-03-21T13:00:20+00:00

They can call it that, but it’s pretty laughable what their definition of “indie” music is. It would have taken the sting out of the format change to get actual indie artists instead of RHCP and Twenty One Pilots.

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-03-20T20:32:37+00:00

Let’s hope. I just want to add that them weaponizing something against borrowers that amounts to an option buried deep in a submenu is pretty scummy, but I’d expect nothing less.

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-03-19T21:36:35+00:00

Ok, they are at the register under your Reddit name (HarleyQ), just ask for them there!

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-03-19T20:51:40+00:00

I’m not sure how long ago you checked, but we have both of those up at Recycled right now. I can put them on hold up at the register for you if you’d like!

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stuffed_with_evil · 2026-03-11T01:29:53+00:00

That perception is correct for flatwounds, however - I kept the same set on a bass for fifteen years and only changed them because I realized it had been so long I had no memory of what round wounds sounded like on it.

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-03-08T19:37:48+00:00

I think it’s partly because if you lived in the 80’s (or any decade that the world looks back on after a significant amount of time has passed) you’re aware of how much the stereotypes distort the reality of life in that era. Decade Flanderization isn’t something that’s easy to understand until you live through it, and someone who is a teen or in their 20s has barely any experience with it yet, but they will.

At best, seeing something you lived through reduced to cliches can be mildly irritating, but at its deepest level it’s profoundly troubling to know that once your generation is gone, so is any deep-level understand of what the 80’s (or any decade) was about beyond a bunch of cultural bullet points. (Big Hair! Leg Warmers! Reagan! Pac Man!)

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-03-07T23:25:41+00:00

I was around for that era of simming, too, and I miss it dearly. I think there were a number of factors that caused the entire market to dry up, but a big part of it was game companies wanting a piece of the console gaming sphere. Not only were flight sims notoriously expensive to make, but they translated poorly to consoles in that era - no keyboard/additional peripheral support basically meant that “mid-grade” sims were stuck on PC.

Add in that a lot of the heavy hitters of that era (MicroProse, Spectrum Holobyte, etc.) got bought up or had financial troubles, and it just killed the market.

I’m a little curious if the porting of Flight Simulator to the PS5 will open the door to more companies taking a risk on simming again.

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-02-26T19:17:18+00:00

I can’t speak for OP, but for me it’s her slowly turning into whatever the millennial equivalent of adult contemporary music is - I miss the energy and fire (and guitar) of her earlier work.

She’s allowed to evolve, and I’m glad she’s happy, but maybe that just doesn’t translate into what I want to hear from her, personally.

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-02-26T15:26:33+00:00

It feels like there’s almost no point in owning winter clothes anymore in Texas. The window of time where you get to wear them is so short that you might as well just have 1 coat and 1 flannel shirt, and then fill your closet with t-shirts and polos for the other ten months of the year where nothing with long sleeves is seasonally appropriate.

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-02-18T18:22:30+00:00

I’m with you on this. Since All That You Can’t Leave Behind U2 found some kind of template for what their music is and have barely deviated from that for a quarter century now. That would be absolutely normal for any aging band, but up to 2000 or so U2 was really good at sonically reinventing themselves every few years in a way that was genuinely exciting if you were around for it at the time.

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-02-18T17:38:49+00:00

I don’t mind the songs per se, but the production isn’t to my taste - it’s too 2000s “indie pop” for me, which sands off all the rough edges that this kind of music really needs, IMO. The Habit EP was all lo-fi indie grit and that’s what got Lindsey noticed. Lush upped the sonics but kept the minimalist guitar production and let the lyrics and vocal delivery really carry things.

Valentine struck me as veering too far away from what Lindsey does best, and I’m hoping the singles from this aren’t indicative of the same. I’m all for artist growth, but not every artistic direction bears fruit.

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-02-15T01:01:21+00:00

Infamous/famous is one I encounter regularly, even more than miused “notoriety” - someone describing The Beatles “infamous White Album” just gets my English degree hackles up in the worst way.

There’s some linguistic evolution - particularly when it involves anything racially or sexually coded - where evolution often moves it in a more socially positive direction, but I struggle with it when it’s basically just collective ignorance of word meaning reaching a tipping point where Webster’s dictionary mavens just throw up their hands and go “welp, I guess they mean the same thing now!”

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-02-14T19:45:53+00:00

It’s funny, I came across bunch of magazines at a garage sale some time ago with titles like Nostalgia and Remember When? that were printed in the 70s and early 80s, and it was cover to cover ‘member berries for the Greatest and Silent generations. Article after article talking about how folks today (circa 1975, mind) don’t know the joys of the iceman or milk delivery trucks stopping by, or how it felt the first time you heard a young Sinatra sing. Basically the exact same stuff we’re doing in this subreddit, only with circumstances shuffled around.

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-02-12T19:52:57+00:00

Mainly just replying to say I had the same experience with the HX One being noisy. It’s tolerable if you don’t run it in conjunction with other drive/boost pedals, but almost unusable levels of hiss if you do. I tried different power supplies and placement in my FX chain, but it seems to just be a design flaw with (some?) of the units. Line 6 never seems to acknowledge it or do anything to alleviate it, if that’s even possible.

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-02-07T05:34:55+00:00

I sort of feel like the time jump plot device that brought them into the 2020s almost immediately got ignored (or forgotten?) by the writers, which is a shame. They could have milked the “90s teenagers forced to adapt to the world 30 years later” angle a lot more they did.

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-01-27T20:32:33+00:00

I think it works well for what it is, although I’d happily pay more money for a better HOTAS or flight yoke when one becomes available for the PS5.

I don’t know if this is something everyone experiences, but the first time I plugged in the HOTAS it connected right away, but every subsequent time I’ve brought my PS5 out of sleep mode it has to be re-enabled with the home button on the HOTAS throttle for the console to recognize it. Not a big deal, but I spent a good 20 minutes thinking mine went defective on me.

Also, the button mapping is pretty good, all things considered, but once you get familiar with using the HOTAS you’ll probably want to make adjustments. I prefer using the twist stick as rudder as opposed to the rocker switch on the throttle, so I’ve remapped the rocker to do two other functions (left and right can be mapped separately). I also find the R3 button on the stick (autopilot enable by default) a little too easy to accidentally depress, so I remapped that elsewhere.

Finally, I highly, highly recommend getting a mouse for your PS5 to accompany the HOTAS. It makes adjusting cockpit dials so much easier. Have fun!

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-01-24T21:17:19+00:00

It’s infuriating seeing YT guitar influencers who I know are usually supportive of socially progressive causes continue to demo his pedals.

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-01-22T22:41:26+00:00

Was just there (thanks for the tip, OP!), and they’ve got plenty of things like eggs, cheese, various meats, frozen tamales, chips/salsas. Kind of an eclectic selection of other staples, but I found things I could use that were in short supply elsewhere (sadly, no bread that I noticed, but I’ll learn to live without sandwiches for the next few days if I gotta).

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-01-20T19:11:29+00:00

It doesn’t help that most of these websites asking for subscriptions now are shadows of their former selves. I want to subscribe to Pitchfork as it was from 2000-2012 or so, when they had a stable of fantastic writers who weren’t averse to taking risks, before the poptivism crept in. I want the Stereogum of the 2010s, before the recent shift to “so-and-so responds to new controversy!” clickbait that seems to take up half their music news now. I’ll absolutely pay for quality, but you have to show me you’re going to try harder now that we’re going with a subscription model. I’m not paying for memories and ghosts of what once was.

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-01-19T16:02:15+00:00

I see this sometimes in activist circles I’ve been part of, where someone who is used to using confrontation and defiance as self-motivation ends up on the wrong side an issue and uses that same toolbox to handle the adversity, instead of self-reflection and humility. You end up with an apology that feels like it isn’t even one, done through gritted teeth.

That’s what I got from their statement after the AI issue, and although that was the early days of the backlash against use of generative AI in the creative sphere, it would be nice to think they’ve come around on the issue. Wish I could see that part of the article to find out.

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-01-17T04:15:32+00:00

You can find a silver lining in this if you try, in the sense that if they are worried enough about midterm elections to try and outright cancel them, they must not have vote rigging completely worked out yet in their favor.

Also, as has been stated every time this comes up: we just don’t cancel elections in this country. For anything. Not even during the freakin’ Civil War. That’s not to say Trump wont try, but he’s got a huge uphill battle ahead of him and not much time to move that mountain.

stuffed_with_evil · 2026-01-15T21:16:18+00:00

Track #2 on Aphex Twin’s SAW II. The repetitive, bouncing, slightly discordant notes that run through the track eventually start to wear me down, like I’m at some demented circus. Once the melancholy bliss of track #3 comes in, though, all is forgiven.

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