Maybe you could approach it slightly differently. K-pop demon hunters maybe a fine show, or movie, or whatever it is, but there are other ones just as good, maybe even better, that haven’t received worldwide publicity. Don’t reject the popular mainstream things, but intentionally seek out gems that haven’t got a media empire behind them.

I haven’t been to a large concert for many years, but I am absolutely delighted to attend concerts by local and indie artists. The intimacy of a small show, and the ability to talk to performers before or afterwards, makes it a very different experience. A large concert is more of the group think, ecstatic evangelical experience.

Other people’s responses were good, and may have helped you. But there’s another, less complimentary angle. You can decide if it’s relevant to you.

You may have learned too boost your self-esteem by looking down on popular media and selecting things that are not popular, to some extent because they are not popular.

It’s an easy trap to fall into, but only you can decide if that’s what you have done.

I have taught in Quebec schools this year, the first full year that cell phones were banned. I have not seen a single student using a phone. The teachers at my schools have also been unanimous in saying that there has been a significant improvement in the student attention, as well as communication and activity between students.

At the circus, I would assume that they had a contract allowing them to use the music, but it also required them to make their best efforts not to allow recording.

Their best effort, of course, was to ask people not to record, and then they didn’t need to bother doing anything else.

I don’t know if it’s still true, but I believe that MySQL used to ignore anything after a semicolon in a single command. It’s obviously better to prevent SQL injections and used parameterized queries, though.

I would recommend using Language Transfer.

It has courses for about 10 languages. All of them are sets of MP3 files, about 10 minutes each. You can download them from soundcloud, listen via YouTube, or install the simple but very effective app.

I think you would be shocked at how natural and effective this system is. I have been using it to learn Spanish as my fifth language, and it is easily the best language acquisition system I have ever used short of living in the target country. It explicitly avoids and discourages memorization.

It’s completely free, but the creator asks for donations to cover his expenses. Believe it or not, one man has created courses for French, Spanish, German, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Swahili, and recently Japanese.

There was a story recently about music companies being sued because it turns out their audiophile editions of vinyl records were typically pressed from digital sources (to save money, even though audiophile pressings were being sold for many times the price of regular ones), rather than through a fully analog chain.

Make sure quick booting is turned off in Windows. It can mess up a shared disk otherwise.

Given that she, and her entire band, have been proven to use recorded tracks instead of performing live at their concerts, I don’t see that this is a big departure.

I think that someone once described cracker barrel as “the place you go when you are too lazy to microwave dinner yourself”.

1 hour border Collie had surgery, I saw that where her fur was white, the skin was pink, and where the fur was black, the skin was also black.

This makes me think of Inform, which compiles English sentences into interactive fiction.

I have barely watched non-streaming TV for probably a decade or more, but I believe that in Canada it is much more difficult to advertise pharmaceuticals or law services. I think they can do it, but there are a lot of restrictions.

Certainly when I’m subjected exposed to American TV, the number of pharmaceutical commercials is staggering.

I find Drupal just as easy to set up as wordpress. Most shared web hosts have a script to do everything for you, including installing updates. In fact, I find Drupal’s administration more logical and easier to manage. (I may be biased, since I spent 10 years developing Drupal sites.)

The other advantage is that, unlike WordPress, Drupal themes and plugins (the Drupal term is “modules”) are almost all open source and free. I find that WordPress has lots of plugins that give you the basic version for free, but then want to upsell you to a paid version.

Language Transfer . Much better for learning a language than Duolingo.

I’m confused by your use of the word “earned”. I don’t think it fits in this context.

Well, apart from the fact that she mostly doesn’t actually sing in her concerts (and when she does, it’s heavily Autotuned), and her band doesn’t actually play.

But given infinite time, could OP spell “infinity” correctly?

The database app in LibreOffice, based on the Firebird database engine, can do all that.

We use Google Keep. Simply a shared list with checkboxes.