phillaholic @ phillaholic @lemm.ee

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I don’t agree with that at all. I’ve started listening to 10x more small artists via Spotify than I ever had through any other medium. They’ll never be on the radio or anything like that. Spotify has recommended these artists based on what I listen to, I haven’t sought them out.

I don’t believe radio pays artists anything do they?

Spotify plays a significant role in transforming music into a product akin to fast food, prioritizing mass consumption over artistic value.

Have you never heard of Top 40 before?

Some are better than others. You can control CarPlay without touching the screen in Mazdas for example.

I don’t want to even rent a car without CarPlay. Good luck with that GM.

One of?

It wasn’t the main guy but one of the guys on site doing the pole experiment. I recall him saying “that’s interesting” after confirming the test worked, proving the curvature. It sounded like he was questioning his beliefs, but during the credits he’s on a podcast or radio show making some bs up about how the test was wrong.

during the credits the guy was making excuses for why it failed, did he come out later saying he was wrong?

The iPad keynote was good, but the iPhone keynote is the gold standard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKMoT-6XSg&t=3326s

The ending of the Netflix documentary where the flat earthers prove the earth is round is hysterical.

I don’t think it’s a bad take, it’s not a complete one. What’s his full plan? He’s not in a position to have one.

I’m a realist not an idealist. We will all sit here doing nothing if we still to our ideals. I acknowledge that difficult decisions need to be made. The metaphor of politics being a game of chess is great. If you play the game ideally, trying to never lose a piece, you will lose the game.

Given what I’ve seen for far, Israel is going too far. But given what I’ve seen from Hamas, I’m not sure where the line is. It’s a similar problem to the war on terror where the enemy isn’t a nation state and has to be identified mixed into civilians. Add on top that no one knows what a solution is. You could argue never invading Iraq was the correct move for the US, but keeping the situation between Israel and Gaza sure as hell isn’t imo.

Changing the rules after the fact is indeed anti democratic. I’m referring to all the talk during the primaries of ignoring the voters and pushing for delegates to vote for Bernie instead. Or course this wasn’t endorsed by Bernie. Rhetoric was rampant online at the time, fueled by Bernie refusing to quit after mathematically eliminated.

The voters are entitled to get the candidate they want, and in 2016 that was Hillary Clinton.

You’re describing war. Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Germany, Kosovo, Chechnya. Just to name a few. Civilians are killed. War is horrific.

I get that when I try to explain to people what is meant by "Black people can't be racist"; the difference between overt and systemic racism etc. It's frustrating that they refuse to even acknowledge the meaning even if they disagree with it. They will continue to argue against the wrong point.

What’s the point in being so pedantic? Calling it the correct thing isn’t going to make it palatable.

Were all the bombings during WWII genocide and ethnic cleansing?

You’re not considering the act of no retaliation causing the terrorists to keep trying large attacks. Hamas isn’t acting alone, just like Bin Laden wasn’t acting alone. They have backers with deep pockets that can’t be dealt with directly for complex political reasons. I’m not advocating for one way or another, I’m acknowledging it’s incredibly complicated and there’s no good solution to it.

You can argue semantics until you go blue in the face. If you’re not used to spicy food or hot food, or food that produces a similar feeling in the mouth, you have to be careful with Indian food. Your tolerance level isn’t everyone else’s.

Spiced does not mean spicy hot.

Yea but like... it's way hotter than most other American food by default.

It was a joint US-Israel-Britian effort, that was going fine until Israel modified it to do more which allowed it to escape the target and be found out by international security researchers. Up until that point, they thought their engineers were screwing up.

It's War.