A Bitcoin exposé

21 million Bitcoin.

Okay; fine.

I get that.

... but why quit asking why because of it?

P.S. I'm stressed out; why does it matter that there are 20 million or 21 million, ultimately.

P.P.S. Oui, Bitcoin est à 72 milles de dollars américain, approximativement au moment où j'écris ces mots. Mais mon capital n'augmente pas aussi vite que je le voudrais.

Pourquoi?

Parce-que je suis dans le système fiat, le système "pas tes clés; pas ton crypto.", et parce-que mon cerveau mathématique se fait endommager souvent par la malbouffe et ma colère intérieure.

A Paramore brief

For a self-described Paramore superfan, I sure don't write about them often or with great depth, often linking their music here and there but never doing a deep dive into why I love them so much. I say this... but if you've been here for a while, you might have caught one such deep dive a while back.

Noncomprehensive list of things that (slightly) annoy me

Alternative title: some pet peeves and some really annoying shiz

Some are more niche than others. In a rather random order:

• When my shoelaces are uneven
• When I find a single sock after doing laundry
• When I keep getting Doomfist (I'm so bad with him) in Mystery Heroes in Overwatch 2
• People who are rude & toxic in Overwatch 2 (and other online games)
  
• How difficult it is to cancel auto-renewal subscriptions
• Cat dandruff getting stuck to my clothes
• When iTunes decides to give an album in my library 5 gray stars out of nowhere
  
• When a pen doesn't write well, but still writes so it's difficult to justify throwing it away
• When someone walking toward me on the sidewalk doesn't walk on their right side (barring exceptions like snow, pushing a stroller etc.)
• When I buy medical cannabis online and it has a package date more than 8 months old
• Shrinkflation (when the price of a product stays the same or goes up, but the quantity diminishes)
• Related to the above, skimpflation (when manufacturers cheap out on ingredients/components but the price doesn't go down)
• When my phone gets sluggish for no reason except age i.e. planned obsolescence
• When people at the grocery store leave their shopping cart in the middle of the aisle and obliviously create a traffic jam
• When another department at work is understaffed and it causes me more stress
• Loud pickleball noises, and pickleball courts that don't have enough space between the baseline and the wall
• When people pronounce "badminton" as "badmitten"
• When people meanly mock other folks' accents
• When I accidentally take my anti-reflect instead of my anti-fog glasses to work
• Mosquitoes and the rest of the pests (black flies, wasps etc.)
• That sheet music isn't de facto free & freely shared
• When my housemates leave their clothes in the washer/dryer on my laundry day
• Dog walkers letting their dogs unleashed in a specifically designated on-leash zone
• Dog walkers not picking up after their dog
• Forgetting really interesting knowledge learned during university cram days
  
• When I get a spot on a red seat on a bus, and someone just in front of me is taking up 2 blue (accessible) because of their backpack, and then someone who could really use a seat hops on
• Candles that don't burn well
• An otherwise quality product that doesn't need sugar that has sugar in the ingredient list (e.g. bacon)
• When people assume I'm Québécois when I consider myself Torontonian first and foremost (this is the most slight of annoyances on this list as of March 12th because yeah, I get why)
• Computer hardware that still works fine, but not well
  
• Motorized leaf blowers
  

Edit March 12th: added some more to this list

These few are definitely not "slightly" annoying and veer more on the "dangerously" annoying:

Sparse rhymes

I have the beats going on

I write a line; I beat a line

Chillhop messed up pop true dialectic hip-hop

Code switching to different levels

Right now I'm thinking about the meta

The place where I keep things digital

This place I call home is only pixels

But I want it to be more liminal; scratch that, I want it to be joyful

Am I alone in this metaphysical?

Crack into the independent; leave the corporate muck behind is the goal