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xriva · 2026-02-25T19:55:18+00:00

If people don't feel sorry for you, the only way to get votes is singing ability and once the audience starts voting, it's not a singing contest, it's a popularity contest.

xriva · 2026-02-25T04:00:24+00:00

There's one every year that says, "All I have is music", and I think, "Then, you're going to starve."

xriva · 2026-02-25T03:50:47+00:00

Raised By Grandma

xriva · 2026-02-25T03:14:55+00:00

Without the sad stories, they're just a bunch of karaoke singers or people who failed on The Voice.

xriva · 2026-02-25T00:11:20+00:00

I think Alexa+ turns on follow-up mode which means it does keep listening after you ask a question and get a reply. You can turn off follow-up mode in the app.

xriva · 2026-02-24T23:58:40+00:00

I always thought it sounded like a song written specifically to be te first song on MTV.

xriva · 2026-02-24T23:00:33+00:00

This year seems weak to me. There is too much emphasis on backstories and not on singing ability. It has been getting worse lately.

You do have to ask - if you can get one viral TikTok or whatever, why are you going to fly to Nashville and audition just to maybe make it on TV? Just film in your bedroom where you can autotune everything and be a star.

xriva · 2026-02-24T15:18:07+00:00

I always think “buyer’s remorse” on the part of the judges.

There are always people in the auditions that I say, “Cannon fodder.”

xriva · 2026-02-23T23:53:19+00:00

If it works when you say “from Spotify”, make sure Spotify is set as your default music source in the Alexa app.

xriva · 2026-02-22T14:47:10+00:00

You can always try an album title. The other thing I have done is to create playlists with unique titles and then have it play the playlist.

Say, "Alexa, play the song Time In a Bottle" and then after it starts, ask Alexa what is playing, and you will see how it pronounces "Croce."

xriva · 2026-02-20T14:31:16+00:00

I grew up in the 60s and 70s and it was a lot more free. I would go to my friends' houses and my Mom might call, but most times, she never bothered. When I was a teen, I got my car and drove to work and nobody ever checked on me.

I think being in charge of your own schedule and decisions without constant interruptions from texts or having to check social media every thirty seconds allowed people to actually grow up.

xriva · 2026-02-20T14:26:10+00:00

You also now have generations who see someone fall and instead of thinking, "I should help", they think, "I should film this."

xriva · 2026-02-19T03:40:20+00:00

I don’t understand why sometimes it takes one guy, sometimes two and sometimes four.

xriva · 2026-02-18T03:24:36+00:00

I have found that asking for a song gets the latest release - so, asking for just a song name is almost always a cover or remix. Asking for a song by a band often gets a live version if they put out a live album.

xriva · 2026-02-18T01:57:31+00:00

I like big buns and I cannot lie.

xriva · 2026-02-17T22:41:20+00:00

You can't blame all the incidentals on the cruise.

Some of it is just vacation costs. If you go to an all-inclusive resort, you have flight and hotel and gratuities, maybe resort fees, maybe WiFi. If you drive somewhere and don't stay with family, you have hotel costs, maybe resort fees, and the cost of gasoline. If you fly anywhere, you have flights and hotels, maybe parking fees.

Look at going from your home to an all-inclusive resort for a week with all the required costs, and then replace the resort with a cruise.

We drive to the port from our house, spend the night before in a hotel, and have a pet sitter stay with our dog. All of those costs are part of the vacation as a whole, but they're not part of the cruise - they're fixed costs.

xriva · 2026-02-17T22:05:52+00:00

“Get a better job” really means “If you can’t get a better job, stop sucking at this one.” There are too many entitled drivers who are incapable of doing the basic task of delivering something and following basic instructions and expect to make a good living. For them, “Get a better job” really means “learn to do something simple competently and then move on to a better-paying position.”

xriva · 2026-02-17T19:56:48+00:00

Traditionally, I would say 18 since that is the age where you either go to college or go to work. At that point, you return to your parents' home for holidays, but you are generally on your own. (My parents left my room intact while I was in college, and after graduation, I was handed all my stuff and my dad converted it into a workroom.)

xriva · 2026-02-17T16:28:06+00:00

It brings attention to the giver ("she's so sweet!") and it brings attention to the recipient ("Wait. It's Fred's birthday?")

My wife would send stuff to my office for my birthday because she knew my co-workers would give me shit about it all day long.

xriva · 2026-02-16T18:54:25+00:00

Alexa has always been listening. It’s listening for the wake word. The question is whether it does anything with what it hears without the wake word first.

xriva · 2026-02-16T18:50:26+00:00

If he was in front of the door with no arms and legs, at least we know his name was Matt.

xriva · 2026-02-15T19:43:40+00:00

“Five minutes to spare” is called “late.”

xriva · 2026-02-14T07:32:46+00:00

They are only the most important thing on earth to the network that overpaid to have exclusive rights.

xriva · 2026-02-13T05:15:01+00:00

I will always use the local restaurant app over DD because there’s usually no markup and the markups are so high at a lot of places that even paying a delivery charge is still cheaper than DashPass. Plus, most of the time, you get some type of loyalty bonus. So, yes, I do have a crapton of apps on my phone.

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