anything you’re worried about them doing, they were already planning on. don’t let yesterdays events wipe your memory of the last year

bro what the fuck, I was joking. what even is this reality

as a rule I don’t subscribe to theories related to the blood libel myth but if there was a dude to try injecting children’s’s blood into his blood to prolong his own life, it’s probably this psycho. the dude needs a straight jacket and glands removed. not government contracts.

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huh that was actually less ghoulish than I expected. hate that it’s for ai but I guess advocating for infrastructure is good. I’d worry about them nationalizing the cost but that’s what they’re already doing on our power grid.

right, Sundar Pichai is CEO. Ruth Porat is president and investment officer 🤔 the poison is for Cuzco. I think I got it now

Ruth Porat. weird that I haven’t had his name in my mental cupboard where I keep the names of bastards. He does a good job of keeping it out of article titles

it really isn’t though. I don’t really know where you live or how your local economy is organized but where I’m at people in my tax bracket are extracted for every ounce of raw money we can generate, both now but even speculatively in the future. it really doesn’t make sense to consider theft as a taboo against corporations since we are literally a resource that’s being exploited in real time for far much more than whatever artists would lose if we all stole.

.sopuli is a Finnish board right? my understanding is that you guys have way stronger social ethics and consumer protection, so yeah. in your world I probably would sign up for that Napster subscription again. or even better, a service actually from Finland. Bandcamp is good too.

here, though in the present we have far worse things to worry about than theft. being tricked into defending the feelings of billionaires is a big one. letting corporations curate our education and media is another. but I hope you continue to have the life where you can engage with your economy in such a good intentioned way. I miss back when I felt I could do that too.

woah woah woah, chill bro goddamn. let’s sit and think about this. Record labels take pretty much all of the cut for streaming. Here is the chart showing what each service pays artists per song played. I used to think Napster was the best and subscribed to them for years, which is ironic considering their history

obviously the payout is going to vary widely but it’s common knowledge that for even the most played artists, the pay from this avenue sucks. they simply use these services to get their music to potential concert goers since that’s the income that record labels actually let artists keep. vinyls, merch, and usually tickets unless they REALLY get fucked over like child musician groups tend to.

If You have an interest in discovering just how shady that industry is, you should watch this essay about payola and how it’s literally more profitable for a musician to die than it is to release a certain number of future albums. I’m going to stick to pirating albums and using my cash to actually see the artists I love

I know so many people who are so ride-or-die for never having to manage the file space for their own music library and they don’t seem particularly less stressed.

I think they just cannot live without an algorithm to recommend new music to them

I have to assume so since other versions that have been “activated” the same way do. Real big shout out to you-know-who, btw. They make Microsoft software viable at all.

Unironically, yes. I was already aware of those and take them into account

Not that I have a strong opinion one way or the other but Linux people’s lack of self awareness or discretion has hurt its spread more than Microsoft has.

Having a teensyweensy bit of occupation with image goes a really long way

I just rage-downgraded back to 10 a couple days ago. is there any reason why I shouldn’t just keep using it after this year? are we ever going to see a risk for zero day exploits for it like happened for XP after it depreciated?