PurpleTentacle

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This isn't the Onion - which should be evident by the almost total absence of humor. This is The Babylon Bee, producing "Christian conservative satire", which works about as well as one would expect.

Hence the "funny" equation of Mengele's experiments with gender affirming care.

Why this unfunny crap is getting upvotes here is beyond me.

That's probably one of the most positive things written about the new pope.

From what I have read so far, he's the "middle of the road" candidate, your average, run-of-the-mill, Catholic bishop:

A little anti-LGBT, just a bit of a pedophile protector and apologist, default-sexist ... but not hard-line enough to make any of it his entire personality.

Not that this kind of coordination worked well in the 90's. But even if it did (I was there, it didn't), it's incredibly hard to drag people back in time with you.

I know that Lemmy is full of dumb-phone users who exclusively communicate via PGP encrypted carrier pigeon - but that shit simply doesn't fly if you try to coordinate a children's birthday party in 2025.

That doesn't take the most essential feature of such a wishlist into account:

Items are removed when purchased, preventing accidental double purchases by multiple guests.

With your E-Mail list, chances are high that you'd be getting the same item twice or more.

While not the perfect answer to your question, I recently freed my entire Audible library from its DRM shackles via https://getlibation.com/ and set up https://www.audiobookshelf.org/ to host then on my server.

That process was so ridiculously quick and simple that I don't know why I didn't do it much earlier. Migration with full and flawless metadata was as easy as copying the files in the right folder.

Audiobookshelf offers all the benefits of a cloud based player like Audible, with cross device sync and ubiquitous availability. Heck, the library and players work better even. And, if course, there's full control over the data.

Now that I am hosting my own audiobook library I'm far less picky about where I get them.