HollandJim @ HollandJim @lemmy.world

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You can blame her if you want, but what he did with it is entirely on Elon.

FYI: Spotify’s Plans to Demonetize Tracks With the Lowest Royalty Payouts Is ‘Discriminatory and Offensive,’ Says Competition Policy Expert https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2023/11/07/spotify-plans-to-demonetize-tracks-discriminatory-offensive/

Time to catch up. Spotify is getting shittier daily.

I’m not directing it solely at conservatives - more, the self-entitled status quo. People are weird in that they vote against their interests in fear it’ll get worse, but they ignore that you have to break the grip of the incumbents for any change to happen.

That could take several election cycles to clean house. Politicians have to know that their actions are what they’re being judged on, not their affiliations, and if they don’t work towards those better ends, then they’re out.

Good on you for always trying to choose the best option, and not the one habit suggests.

I think the worst thing we as voters do is expect big changes to stick immediately. I think ultimately, it’s going to be a lot of smaller, necessary changes before we can expect big moves to really make it.

After 50 years voting, I feel it’s our impatience for change that tends to scupper any sort of real change, and return the grasp back to the status quo.

Do what I do - vote them out at every conceivable level of government until they learn to listen (or fear) the public.

Either would be good.

Weird - I’m still getting a day and a half, and I’m using the Snoopy face with all the animations. Since there’s no other complications, I wonder if it’s one of those that is affecting the problem

Odd how the tiniest dicks take the most space.

The Internet was all open standards once too.

We live in an age where negative sarcasm is considered fashion.

Frankly, I’m not far off your post: Wife, job… but I met my wife in my mid-50s, expecting to be Bachelor Uncle forever. No kids, so no one to take care of us in extreme age but I love and appreciate my wife beyond words, and now I’m 4 years from retiring to her homeland. Admittedly, it’ll be Bali, but dammit - another language to learn, moving to another part of the world, new everything to get through as an immigrant - so challenges… but also new adventures.

You got to keep moving, keep trying to be positive. On on the end-run of life, and if you’re not trying to make our short time here positive, then you’re going to regret everything along the way, so hang in there!

Same on my series 7 - I’ve not noticed anything. I guess it affects older models more.

I bet he doesn’t say a damn thing. Coward will either be forgetful or take the 5th; and then he’ll run out of court to bloviate in front of cameras.

I’d not just blame the fediverse - I’d call out all social media. Popularity reigns there, not accuracy or facts.

Same. It’s an impossible fight, with all this magical thinking about Apple biasing any discussion. So much blind hate and no way to debate it.

Apple pays much more to artists - period. That’s why I use it.

Why is it “or”..? It’s as if the Verge has lost the ability to write a non-clickbait title.

And the answer is “both have” of course. The folks who make the game are as guilty as those who played it.

This is “they’re all the same” bullshit that some groups use to dissuade you from comparing and deciding on your own. That, and it’s just ageist rhetoric, ignoring Trump is nearly just as old

Don’t listen to this shit. Look at what they say AND what they do, in total. Single issue, lazy, dogmatic thinking is how we got into this sorry state to begin with.

Oh great. More of “the best people”.

When it’s out and independently proven, only then would I say that it’s fair to compare.

Yes! By all means, buy next years’ mythical chip and instead of this proven one!

That’s you. I love the mouse as it is.

So Sioux me..

Ahem. I'll see myself out.

The us could use it, but barring a war on its own soil, you're not going to get it anytime soon. All you can work towards is small changes that accumulate.

You can claim "status quo" all you want but it's just the same as "not voting sends a message" - it enables the people already there to continue, and honestly, too old or whatever, Biden is the best we've got right now.

There's a great article on NPR about Adam Kinzinger and why he has left politics for now. I'm a Democrat, but I agree with him:

I also know that if everything kind of tracks the way it is in 2024, I won't be voting Republican because, again, I think it's a simple question of democracy or no democracy. And the Republican Party represents right now a real slide to authoritarianism ... If it was Joe Biden and Donald Trump, I don't think there's any question I would vote for Joe Biden.

You can wait for the perfect politician all you want, but I'm not letting the cult slip into power and fuck us all up again.

PS: Also, calling Biden a "pre-ascendant facist" - NO. Absolutely not. Not sure where your politics come from, but it's not any sense of reality. Go live in borderline democracy, or China or Russia (or their adjacent states) and then rethink your definitions.