In my experience, it's because as part of becoming millionaires they also become obnoxious money-obsessed losers who are totally unenjoyable to talk to
I truly think that a good amount of these people could be personally executed by Trump shooting them in the chest, and while Trump says "I know what you are and I hate you" they would lay there dying and say "Oh it's okay, I know you didn't mean that. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. I still support what you're doing overall." or possibly even "I guess I do deserve to die if you say so".
Now I will say the majority of even the maga team is not this nuts. But some definitely are. Many humans have unfortunately had the privilege to never interact with the kind of person who will truly never change their mind. I've known one or two, and it's a really mind-expanding experience, almost like you're meeting an extraterrestrial. It's hard for people who haven't seen them to believe 👽 lol
What about the other way around? Are there artists on Bandcamp that aren't on Spotify? I would imagine that Bandcamp has more small indie artists and Spotify has more major ones, right? That's great that they have the editorials. But what I really crave is some sort of "tracks similar to this" feature - a lot of times I'm in a very particular mood or looking for something very specific where I know one or two songs that hit the mark and want more.
Yeah this is the kind of thing where you really need statistics. This sticks out because it's a prominent example of something new, an autonomous vehicle, doing something notable - killing an animal for the first time (or at least one of the very first well-publicized times on record).
For people's reaction to this to be that this is because it's an autonomous vehicle is the same sort of cognitive bias that causes things like, " The first person to get a math problem wrong in class was a girl so it seems like girls are bad at math". When of course it could be that the probability of boys and girls getting problems wrong is equal, and that the girl was simply the first one to get a unlucky roll on the dice of the universe. It could even be that boys are more likely to get problems wrong, and the girl was especially unlucky. It could in fact be that girls are more likely to get problems wrong, too, but this single instance doesn't give us enough evidence for that. It could be that boys actually have gotten more problems wrong, but we only hear about the girl getting the problem wrong due to sociological biases, or vice versa. Etc.
I get that we shouldn't trust corporations, and it's not fun to defend a corporation, but it is important to defend rational thinking. And the rational way to approach this is to employ statistical methods to judge whether a vehicle being autonomous truly makes it a bigger risk to animals in the road or not. Any other line of reasoning is not right for this kind of problem.
I've been thinking about this too. Does anyone know if band camp is any good for this sort of thing?? I know that you can listen to some music there.
Music is one of the few things where I actually like for the service to have a recommendation algorithm. I don't think Bandcamp has anything like that. I'm not opposed to switching up my ways of discovering new music and instead just finding it by engaging with communities... But let's be honest that isn't quite as effective nor as plentiful as a good algorithm. If bandcamp doesn't really have any way of discovering artists then it just seems sort of supplementary.
Yeah rereading my comment, I see what's confusing about it - I'm condemning the people who condemn purity tests. I support the purity tests (aka having standards for our representatives).
Noooo but muh purity test! We need to take what we can get! The DNC should have banned Mamdani from running so that Kamala could run in New York instead and if you think that's a bad idea that's just because you let your delusional perfect fantasies be the enemy of the good , well, the okay , er... the...
I don't have time to fully respond to this right now, but I just wanted to say that I do understand and sympathize with the things you're bringing up here. I was hoping to engage with you politely, and my feelings are hurt by your insults, but I understand your anger. When I said I look forward to your counterargument, I meant that earnestly and respectfully. I'm sorry for upsetting you with my reply - I was hoping to lend an angle of positivity to you that you may not have considered, not discount your own view.
It allows individuals to distribute content to a network of hundreds of millions of people, with a very low barrier to entry, and in ways that are not centrally controlled. If my government is banning certain types of speech or information, websites in other countries may still be accessible with it. People in my own country may even make sites with that information, as it's fairly easy to bypass those laws. The Internet holds all sorts of content that pisses off billionaires. Piracy, privacy tools, the Internet Archive, government document leaks. Think how I can read about the Epstein files so easily by searching or asking about it here on Lemmy - and then think about how much harder it is for me to find that information from a news company, if it's even possible at all. Why do you think governments and billionaires around the world are so eager to monitor and centralize and rewrite the fundamental workings of the internet? They are coming after the internet because it is a threat to them.
Yeah. Reddit is technologically very bland. It's "easy" to make a Reddit clone - the community is what makes it tick. But YouTube needs crazy levels of infrastructure to provide the full experience that it does. When Reddit collapses there's places to migrate to. But if YouTube collapses it's just a loss.
People say this but the obvious problem with this plan is that the cameras are going to record you doing it, and all the cameras between that camera and your house are going to make it clear who you are. The surveillance system is already in place so it's already protecting itself. I understand that it's not that tight everywhere, but it's pretty hard to tell.
Although the idea of spray painting security cameras seems super punk and badass, they would also just quickly be replaced. Remember these cameras are AI-powered so they undoubtedly can issue some kind of alert if they don't see anything for too long.
The most effective way to combat this is the boring and much more tedious painful thing that the Trump supporter in the article did. It has to be a coalition with people from both sides that you make in peace, because this is one of the few things that both the far right and the far left get pissed off by, and you have to keep bothering your politicians about it until they do something about it.
It kind of sounds like you're talking about it purely as a thought experiment or as something to inspire other philosophical thinking. But I think the issue most people have with the simulation theory is when people think that it's actually the way that the world is or think that it's worth investigating the way that the world is just because it theoretically could be the way the world is. But theoretically the world could have been created by the god of the Bible or any of the other million explanations proposed by the million other religions that have existed. Almost every religion proposes a hypothesis that could indeed explain reality, but just because it could explain reality doesn't mean it's reasonable to investigate it.
I agree with you that all the questions you raised are interesting and worth thinking about, but none of that really relates to thinking that we actually live in a simulation. You're just using the idea that we live in a simulation as inspiration to start thinking about these other ideas. But actually thinking that we live in a simulation is much less reasonable.
Heard about this story a few days ago and it's pretty annoying that none of these so-called news agencies could be bothered to provide the extremely relevant pictures of the thing. It's sooooo much worse than I imagined. It ain't "child like" that's a straight up child sex doll. I was thinking maybe it was some dubious anime loli looking thing, which would still have been bad, but this is crazy. Good job France for taking serious action against this scumbag company. Shein, Temu and the like are such filth and this sort of thing exemplifies why. Their sketchiness leaves room for things like this to exist. Saving this for next time the ignorant people in my life insist that buying clothes on Shein is not bad.
It's about a quirky and woke person standing up against a thinly veiled metaphor for oppressive society, overthrowing their wealth and power but doing so in a loving and peaceful way, then acquiring the same wealth and power, but like in a good way because they're the good one.
I dunno why but it's just really hitting the spot rn
I'm white and I wear shorts - hah! It's funny because it's true!!!