The long-playing record was dead media in the 90s and came back, and I'm okay with that.

But that created a disconnect. And that gives me pain.

Because you say "on vinyl" when you have an album in that format, but they're LPs, not vinyls. I will die upon this hill.

There was a meme on an explain-this subreddit, basically saying that regular expressions are scarier than nuclear war. Most explanations were "this is a regex", while I explained what it should be matching, and how it was broken.

This got me accused of using ChatGPT.

Nope, Just Another Perl Hacker who has been using regular expressions for a quarter century.