I mean yeah. There are some decent deals sometimes though. The dollar store near me sells name brand dishsoaps and cleaning solutions in normal sized bottles. You just need to be smart about what you get.
I mean yeah, obviously they're profitable. It's the convenience though. Sometimes they have good deals if you don't want to buy a giant pack of something.
Because some people are good at what they do. In online communities you often have people talking out of their ass. It's interesting hearing what experts in certain topics have to say. Also not to mention following friends and family. Not sure what's hard to understand there.
If they insist on making shitty music and whining that they aren't paid enough, that's no one's fault but their own.
No. It's the fault of the greedy profit hungry streaming services. You can try to diminish the bands complaining by calling their music shitty but I regularly work with bands as an audio engineer and I can tell you without a doubt that many of the most talented musicians I've worked with need to make music as a side hustle because it doesn't pay the bills.
The reality is that presence on streaming services is essential for growth as an artist in this day and age. Youtube isn't going to to cut it. People are allowed to complain that a system is exploitative. You're also ignoring the fact that even though streaming services pay peanuts, peanuts are better than nothing. Taking music off of streaming services deprives you of the miniscule income you get from it and deprives you of the publicity you get. The only way to get a following is to be on as many of the major platforms as possible. I'm not sure why that's so difficult to understand. More people listening means more people potentially buying tickets or merch which is where the real money is.
Edit:
These artists are no more entitled to money than I am for doing my job.
This also might be one of the most stupid things I've read. Everyone is entitled to fair compensation for their work. You are, musicians are, everyone is.
I wouldn't consider that the portal, itself, imparting the energy, though. It's just facilitating an environment where an object can fall infinitely. The portal is outputting the same momentum that is inputted to it. The actual increase of energy happens while the object is falling between the portals.
You have no idea what you're talking about. What you're saying is basically a "you criticize society yet you live in it" argument. The artists that you perceive as doing fine are the ones making money off of ticket and merch sales. This is where Spotify as a marketing opportunity comes in. You need a following to sell tickets and merch. Basically your only option to garner a following is to put your music in the places where people consume it most.
I guess you could say that but brains are orders of magnitude more complex than any computer. Saying that they're "simply" organic computers is a huge understatement.
No streaming platforms pay well. Are you saying that artists should pull out of all streaming services? How would new artists get their music to a general audience?
There are so many automated bots posting links every couple of minutes. I feel like I sometimes have to wade through tons of garbage to get to interesting posts. I've been blocking tons of bots and communities but it still feels like it takes effort to find content which isn't what I want. I want somewhere that I can find interesting content when I'm taking a shit. Lemmy isn't quite there yet.
Yeah. While a service charge is annoying, when you eat in the US you already know that you'll be adding on an extra 20% regardless. If you don't have to leave a tip at the end, you're paying the same amount that you would have with the tip.
AI in its current form is equivalent to the advent of the typewriter.
It's really not. Everything that you write with a typewriter is going to be your own words and your own thoughts. I wouldn't even consider the calculator comparison to be valid. A calculator will spit out an objective truth. AI tools like chatgpt will formulate complex responses to how you prompt it. It adds context, information, and analysis in a way that a typewriter or calculator doesn't. The whole point of school is to learn critical thinking skills and telling chatgpt to write an essay for you based on the assignment criteria will not achieve that goal in any meaningful way.
That being said, there are valid ways to use AI to assist in the learning process but exams are meant to verify your personal understanding of the material.
Make it illegal for AI companies to sell their services to people for the purpose of cheating or impersonation.
How would that work? How do you know someone is cheating? AI can be a great studying tool and those same functions could be considered cheating based on the context that the user is using them in. There's no way to tell what the user's intent is.
I use duckduckgo and they have bangs. Put !yt at the start of your search and it'll automatically search youtube, !g for google, !a for Amazon, etc... Loads of bangs for basically every service out there.
I use chrome for work because it's installed on every computer we have and the machines are locked down so I can't install firefox if I wanted to. I move around between stations all the time so logging in and having all my bookmarks, passwords, history, etc... synced is convenient. I use firefox at home but most people just stick with what's familiar to them. It's a solid browser feature-wise and that's what most people care about.
Steven Crowder