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Cake day: September 5th, 2023

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  • Kinda re-discovered Mazzy Star last year, extremely good! Lots of melancholic nostalgia.
    I remember my mom listening to it a lot when I was a kid in the mids 90s, it was a hard time for her as she had just separated with my dad. Being a single mom, with me at around 5 years of age and my little sister at 3 years old she had found several female musicians with powerful music that helped her get through life at that point. These aren’t specifically musically related to Mazzy Star but they are closely related in my heart, and all highly recommend, some of my earliest memories:

    The Sugarcubes - Birthday (I turn to a pile of mush when I listen to this, in a good way of course)

    Angelique Kidjo - Agolo (the whole album rhis is from, Ayé, is so damn good)

    The Cranberries - Zombie (No need to say anything here other than “holy shit” at the view count)

    Thanks for posting!














  • Here in Sweden they always ask: “Do you want the cheapest option?” when you buy prescribed medicine. If there’s a reason for a specific manufacturer then that’s stated on the prescription.
    I’ve even had them say that the drugstore I’m at is out of the cheapest option and then ask if I want them to look up which drugstore is closest that has it in stock and if they should send them a note to save what I’m looking for so there’s no chance it might sell out before I get there.

    And there’s also high-cost protection, an annual maximum amount (about $275) you can spend on prescribed medication and anything else healthcare-related. So any medication you buy and the cost of any medical services you use are added together and if that cost reaches the maximum amount within a year everything is free until the next year. So basically you can’t pay more than $275 per year for medication and any other medical services.






  • You vastly underestimate the idiocy and childishness of Americans. I’ve seen people comment things like “use English, this is a US website”, “go to another site for your own country if you want to use anything other than English”, etc. even though the posts were in communities/subs specific for the language the post was in.
    This has always been a thing online.
    Many Americans are so dumb they think they are the vast majority on any website, and everything should be via their rules and ways. And there are several other things that seemingly only Americans are dumb enough to do and/or to not understand, things like timezones (even though they have several within their country), that the vast majority of the world uses Metric, that not every country has the same products or services, that their subjective experience of anything is in fact subjective, etc. I could go on for several more paragraphs with things like this.