Not really. It depends on what it is. There are entire games and items that aren’t available in the US, but make a killing in Asia.

Like, here’s Genshin Impact numbers from 2023.

On that game, the US comes in at 7th, is less than half of the top country (Japan) and is notably behind Switzerland.

For Tik Tok specifically, we can look at their annual reports.

Let’s look at average annual users per region. 682M in Asia Pacific, which does not include China. 192M in North America.

China’s numbers are 750M daily.

I don’t think most of their money comes from the US.

Someone that is wildly happy with their life is not thinking how life is so terrible and evil.

This isn’t a zero sum game.

You can be happy and recognize that life is also terrible and evil.

Nick Drake.

Years ahead of his time and while he gets a lot of recognition posthumously in certain music circles, he didn’t have any hits during his life, or even any hits after, so the average Joe hasn’t heard of him.

All three of his albums are fantastic, though Five Leaves Left is my favorite.

The US has limited hard braking? What city do they live in?

I don’t know anyone who’s used IRC in the last fifteen years at least.

At least back when I used IRC, it wasn’t indexed either. It was just an alternative to AOL Instant Messenger or Yahoo Chat.

You really think there aren’t any normal streamers on Twitch?

Depends what you’re into. CD sales are more than alive and well in the kpop/jpop circles and there isn’t a lot of vinyl to find there.

I’ve been listening to the 1001 albums you have to listen to before you die list. (There’s a website that randomizes it and gives you an album a day).

I’m about 100 albums in. The grand majority are trash, that includes stuff by the Beatles or the Rolling Stones or Janis Joplin, etc. Just absolute garbage. One of two songs worth listening to and the rest is straight trash.

Albums as an art form died because it was never really a good art form to begin with.

Flint water wasn’t that long ago.

While not impossible, it’s fairly hard to over season stuff.

I disagree here. Unless you’re used to overseasoned food already, it’s pretty easy to be heavy handed on the salt.

If you’re looking to reduce heartburn, add baking soda, not sugar.

Seems like a red grape juice would be closer.

Pumpkin pie. Add cardamom.

My issue is that if you don’t know what the article is about and it’s not a word/concept you know, there’s absolutely no chance of ‘winning’.

In an analog, my college degree required me to read. A lot. Like, I devoured books as a kid, but this was a lot, every week, and it was a required reading. I enjoy it, but I didn’t read after that. I’ve also heard similar experiences from my friends who went to law school, so much reading they’ve stopped reading. My husband knows several artists who go into graphic design and stop doing art in their personal time.

I just last month got back into reading. It’s been over twenty years since college and I just got the ability to read through more than a handful of pages in a book.

When something is work, you don’t necessarily want to do it in your offtime.

Folks or Everyone tend to be my go to.

Well, I hate pineapple and putting it into things just kind of ruins the thing you’re adding it to anyway, so there’s that.

Okay, I’m trying to understand your argument here. Are you saying that pitbulls are being racially profiled and that information from other dogs aren’t being collected or that bites of the same severity by other dogs aren’t being correctly gathered or are bring suppressed? And, if so, what are the factors that should be taken into account when discussing dog bites or dog aggression?

So… rezone for residential, tear down, rebuild for residential…

omg… but…but… I… I remember the logo… changing… oh god.

Berenstein is classic though.