That thing where I have a Very Important Conversation and then I have to spend the next hour or so spinning down and garbage collecting all the Theory of Mind Virtual Machines I fired up in my brain to model & predict the other participants' responses.

Like, no, no, the interaction is concluded. You don't have to keep anticipating what Person A is currently thinking with regard to what you just did. They aren't in the room with you any more.

Same goes for Persons B through F. You don't need to devote further cycles to l'esprit de l'escalier

@tedmielczarek Yeah, but someone else keeps messing with the helm charts

@socketwench i have absolutely been there, I hang out there most weeknights

Kind of wish there was a music recommendation service where I could just take like 2-3 seconds of a song and say THAT GIMME MORE OF THAT

@bitprophet Yeah, Pandora was a bit uncanny for that, though I haven't used it in awhile.

Spotify seems not to work from sound so much as "folks who listened to this also listened to this". And also whatever bazillion micro-genres they've identified

But I literally want something like... oh you like that particular synth sound? here are 4 other bands and songs who used the same thing

That said, today I am repeat-listening to this album from Bathe Alone. Especially this track with that lead synth at around 0:43

It's like if Vangelis did full-on dream pop

bathealone.bandcamp.com/track/

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