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Thanks for the tip. That's another great website I haven't been to in years. Still hoping to find someone that remembers UGSTorrents though.

Not from the 90s but around 2007 I think. There was a private torrent tracker called something like UGS-torrents. Where UGS stood for underground sounds. Pretty sure it was based in the UK and it focused on electronic and club music singles being released at the time from a bunch of smaller producers. Unique stuff I'm not even sure what to call the genre to be able to look for it today but a lot of it was adjacent to drum and bass, 2-step, or break beats. Super active forums with members making and sharing DJ mixes. I've been out of the scene for quite a while now but the few times I've searched for any mention of this place I've found nothing. If anyone has any information I'd appreciate it if you could share.

Sketchbook full colorS is a good one.

John Coltrane's house?

Slab Bulkhead

Bridge Largemeat

Punt Speedchunk

Butch Deadlift

Hold Bigflank

Splint Chesthair

He's a RICK....Brouse. He's mighty mighty

The password? Yeah, its four words all uppercase but one word all lower case.

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Should have bought a gerbil instead.

colloidal?

I always have a hard time interpreting these types of article because they make the headline sound outlandish then don't go into all the details of the data/survey method. I've heard anecdotally that sometimes these surveys will have a narrow scope, like "can't cover a $1k expense" is only considering money in checking accounts because it would take some time to transfer money from savings or other accounts so these funds are not counted. Or they will report living paycheck to paycheck because they have no money left over after expenses but the expenses include X% contribution to retirement accounts. This article says "29 percent of consumers entered 2025 barely surviving on their paychecks" so they are currently using up all of their pay on expenses and not contributing to savings but how many of those same people have savings built up from prior years that they could draw on?

Just based on personal experience I could believe that a large number of Americans really are living paycheck to paycheck and would have trouble covering a major expense. But if this is true I would also think it should manifest in the economy as something like loan defaults, bank failures, mortgage foreclosures, huge drops in revenue for companies selling consumer goods, etc. and I haven't seen it. Are these respondents wrong and they actually can cover a $1k emergency expense? Are they just never encountering a $1k emergency expense? Such a huge number of people living in such a precarious state and the overall economy continues to function more or less normally?

Unfortunately I don't. I've only seen a couple youtube videos covering it and other similar mesh networks (LoRa). I'm getting more and more tempted to buy some hardware and find out how it actually works though.