I've been a user for about 20 years, and I'm surprised to see something recent around playlist crossovers.

I've had some of these playlists for 20 years, believe it or not, and made a few around the names of my elementary school and my junior high school and high school.

So they're very definitive, music collections of music that was in that particular era.

The past year, I discovered a band that I really like that's modern and I can't really even figure out if it's really a band or a collection anyway, I created a couple stations for that band and some of the similar "genes".

I listened to it quite a bit, but now I'm seeing how those songs that I like are showing up in some of these more date driven or era driven playlist. Has anyone else experienced something you like in one playlist seeping into another playlist that has honestly very few genetic connections that I can see.

I'll start, and Star Wars is well covered territory.

Bonus for more drama films, rather than MCU/action etc:

At Close Range

Dead Poets' Society

The Shining

There Will Be Blood

Chinatown

The Great Santini

The Royal Tennenbaums

I'm pretty sure it's a scam, I'm just trying to figure out what the actual hook is.

I've gotten a few of these over the years, but I'll get a text from someone that has a little bit of a flare of a relationship issue or something like please stop sending me flowers. Or something like be sure to tell so-and-so not to bring any food tomorrow.

And then I reply "something nice like you have the wrong number" and then it goes into thanking me for my kindness and my warmth as a human being. If we lived in the same city, I would love to go out to dinner or have coffee with you or something like that.

It usually calls out the location where the phone number area code is from, and pushes to get me to disclose my first name after they've disclose theirs.

I'm just wondering if anyone's run it further to see what the hook or ask is?

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I don't think we had anything on the weather report today like this, but it's coming in quick on a very windy day.

Not sure it's allowed, but that's ok. I just wanted to make sure it's not a surprise.

It seems to be increasingly popular in social media around the arts to ask people to rank movies, or songs or albums.

I was watching a sketch from Alan Partridge the other day where he had someone do a book review and he kept doing a ranking system on some story about three Chinese women throughout generations.

It was pretty funny, cause he kept going back to a star system while the woman was trying to explain how all of their lives were intertwined and all the subtleties and it was just funny to hear him boil things down and have people call in and say how many stars they ranked it without saying anything else.

It made me think, though how I saw someone ranking something by an artist who had multiple eras (not Taylor Swift), and how each one is its own special conceptual work.

And I know top 10 lists in those kinds of things are very Internet, friendly to get traffic and people arguing, but I'm wondering now the act itself actually damages something along the way.

Here's a few examples that I pulled just to make sure I fully understand that word reductive:

Some examples:

• "Saying poverty is caused only by laziness is a reductive explanation." → It takes a complicated issue and squeezes it into a single cause, ignoring other factors.
• "The movie's portrayal of the character was reductive." → The character was flattened into a stereotype rather than shown as a full, complicated person.
• "It's reductive to describe her entire career as one big success." → That summary erases struggles, failures, changes, and contradictions that mattered.

I was going to make a poll, but I figured that might be an reductive.

So just wondering filmbuffs—your opinion—damages art, just fun to talk about or something else when we're asked to rank top 10 horror flicks or rank Spielberg flicks.

I can't have buns of my own, so I live and walk in some neighborhood bluffs above a river.

I've been averaging about 11.5 BPM (bunnies per mile).

My longest walk was about two weeks ago with a collective 47 wild buns spotted. My personal best, and naturally feel the thrill of victory and real ultimate power, however it was a long walk.

I saw some wild sploots two nights ago, tiny potatoes and Sunday's busy at our airport and spotted one facing the active runway watching planes take off for the duration of my walk.

What's the bunny sitch in your part of the world? Do you see wild ones, if so how often?

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Ive gone down this road a few times, but find I can watch a 1080p movie with subs no problem, but a 480 show will trigger the "not fast enough" message.

I dropped one to 320 last night and I just dont get it.

I have Convert Automatically on in the Base Settings, but also in the Playback Settings. But I still on some shows for some unknown reason, have to go manually select the size/playback.

Any tips or things to check? I've gone down the road before and I dont know higher functions or much about Plex. It just works.

My workaround is pretty farfetched, but create my own Plex with Claude so I can run it through a LAN. I've had good success doing homebrew type projects with limited understanding and AI—but this Plex error is beyond me at the moment.

I'm noticing as I get pushed through IVR systems, the calls the past few years get quieter and quieter. From the IVR system itself, prerecorded loops, the onhold music and agents themselves.

Sometimes onhold music has such a narrow band it's mostly static on the high end, like it's played through a blown speaker.

And once I get passed to the appropriate CSR, they are almost unhearable in many cases.

I spoke to one today, whose dog was barking, so I knew she was working from home. I'm imagining it's a mix of VoiceOver Internet, dialed down, bandwidth, poor equipment on the part of a work laptop, and potentially whatever headset is low quality as well. I literally had to close my eyes to concentrate and make sure my windows were closed.

Yesterday I spoke to someone who was a recruiter, and asked him to if he had something wrong with his phone after he tried to adjust it initially. He passed it off on his earbuds which granted I think have poor quality in general. I also worked with a guy in a team who we could almost never hear for the 6 months we worked with him. Everyone would call it out, but he'd move something around or whatever with limited results.

More of a side note: I'm wondering what happens when I can't even hear CSRs at all if it gets any quieter. I do get my hearing checked often but as far as my phone goes, I'm wondering what I can even do to amp up the volume. I wouldn't mind that anyway, but if others have ideas... when I'm working from home. I use a boom microphone or a KOSS headset that was recommended to me by professional interpreters. I do continually ask people just for spot checking and they say it sounds like a podcast (in a good way.)

Back to the question: as a customer or as an agent, do you know why this is and I would imagine if I'm experiencing the same thing they hear it probably 100 times a day.

Are there any trends around this or am I just starting to zero in on the lack of quality instead of just being generally upset about poor communication?

Also, if you are an agent, do customers sound super quiet too?

I've noticed my usual grocery stores have never really stocked a good mozzarella in block form.

I've just resigned to using fresh mozzarella the past 4-5 years, which is really good, but I picked up something on closeout from a company called Frigo based out of Milwaukee and forgot how good block mozzarella can be.

I used their search tool to find that I could get that regularly at Whole Foods.

I'm not planning on ever stepping foot in a Whole Foods. I have gone to Cosetta's and the now closed Buon Giorno for shredded, which was great but pricey. I have those options of course, but I can't believe there's nothing between the Italian market and Crystal Farms.

Or maybe I can just dry fresh mozzarella?

Any suggestions?

This has some kind of weird stuff with no clear origin.

It's a lot of short videos, vintage, art, abstract, classical music. It's kind of good to zone out to.

There are movies that come up, but it looks like no play controls or anything so you just kind of show up when it's on. It's been a few art house things that I've been familiar with but then other stuff I just didn't know.

It has some weird cryptic stuff in the browser tab too if you're on a desktop.