FlashMobOfOne
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.
I’m single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.
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- Comment on Warren Buffett Said Buying 'Distressed' Homes With 30-Year Mortgages And Renting Them Out Might Be The 'Most Attractive' Investment Available 1 day ago:
And yet, still illustrative of the parasitic, evil mentality of billionaires.
- Comment on Warren Buffett Said Buying 'Distressed' Homes With 30-Year Mortgages And Renting Them Out Might Be The 'Most Attractive' Investment Available 1 day ago:
Smart and evil.
His company could buy a fucking bank and start a movement toward more equitable housing. It is possible to turn a profit without destroying people’s lives.
Instead, he’s stacking money on top of people’s corpses.
- Comment on Warren Buffett Said Buying 'Distressed' Homes With 30-Year Mortgages And Renting Them Out Might Be The 'Most Attractive' Investment Available 1 day ago:
Exactly. I saw the headline and it just made me a little sick watching this guy, that so many think is the ‘good billionaire’ casually tossing out that he’s a-okay with finding people who’ve been fucked over by the banks and housing markets and stacking more cash he’ll never actually live to spend off of the corpses of their American dreams.
- Comment on Warren Buffett Said Buying 'Distressed' Homes With 30-Year Mortgages And Renting Them Out Might Be The 'Most Attractive' Investment Available 1 day ago:
Just in case you needed another reminder that all billionaires are bastards.
- Warren Buffett Said Buying 'Distressed' Homes With 30-Year Mortgages And Renting Them Out Might Be The 'Most Attractive' Investment Availablenews.yahoo.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on Every female Democrat presidential nominee has resulted in a Donald Trump presidency 1 day ago:
Sure, Jan. Have a pleasant Sunday afternoon.
- Comment on Every female Democrat presidential nominee has resulted in a Donald Trump presidency 1 day ago:
That is a way of downtalking the feminist movement.
Totally, me making a correct point contrary to OP is downtalking the feminist movement.
- Comment on Every female Democrat presidential nominee has resulted in a Donald Trump presidency 1 day ago:
That said I do think it would be silly to run another female candidate with this electorate,
I disagree. There was a ton of reporting on people who voted strongly for AOC and also for Trump.
The problem isn’t nominating a woman. The problem is you nominate shitty women who lack authenticity.
- Comment on Every female Democrat presidential nominee has resulted in a Donald Trump presidency 1 day ago:
I despise the Clinton’s, and I’m not convinced things would be significantly improved, having watched Obama and Biden enthusiastically embrace fascism and genocide.
But the point remains: can’t really claim misogyny for Clinton losing the election when she received more votes than Donald.
- Comment on Every female Democrat presidential nominee has resulted in a Donald Trump presidency 1 day ago:
Yes, and that actually works against the point you think you’re making, because the female candidate received more votes.
- Comment on Every female Democrat presidential nominee has resulted in a Donald Trump presidency 1 day ago:
Correlation does not equal causation.
You’re ignoring that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, a fact that people who cry ‘misogyny’ also tend to ignore.
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 2 days ago:
That’s pretty fucking cool.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 5 days ago:
I’ve already addressed this. They don’t get fractions of fractions of a penny.
We know this because Weird Al used his year-end video to make the world aware that, in return for his tens of millions of streams, he got around $80.00 from Spotify.
The artists aren’t losing anything meaningful when rip songs off Youtube, but the CEO is for sure.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 6 days ago:
Absolutely. At the end of the day the main point here is just don’t use the major streaming services.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 6 days ago:
You’re right.
I should figure out a way to replace the income these artists get for my individual stream. It comes out to fractions upon fractions of a penny.
The point here is robbing the CEO. There’s no meaningful impact to the artist thanks to the way these services are structured.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 6 days ago:
That works too.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 6 days ago:
None of the online music streamers are ethical. Every single one, to varying degrees, robs the artists and enriches their CEO’s and shareholders.
Do the ethical thing.
Don’t use them, and instead, use a Youtube-to-MP3 converter and steal the music.
- Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was. 6 days ago:
Most people have been trained from a young age to value convenience over basically everything else.
This is the deal. Yes. People, at least her in the US, equate personal liberty with convenience; which is why you saw people willing to kidnap governors over being forced to wear a facemask, or attacking Red Lobster employees for being slow in bringing another basket of cheese biscuits.
Also why dead kids aren’t enough to get real progress on gun control.
I think when these tariffs really roll downhill and the supply chain is reconfigured within the next two years, the real and permanent impacts of Donald’s cavalier and reckless economic policies will be in full effect.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
The 2024 democratic primary was non-existent for two reason:
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- Democrats rig their primaries, and they admitted in court in Florida.
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- Dementia isn’t a redline for Democrats and their partisans.
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- Comment on Remember the guy who lost a bitcoin wallet worth millions in a landfill? There's a game about that now 1 week ago:
Bummer.
You can still buy bitcoin though, just wait for the next dip and get right in.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 1 week ago:
I don’t consume a lot of content from mainstream news sites, and that helps.
Most of my news exposure is through Lemmy or Mastodon, through which I can automate the curation of my feed and I don’t see things that are going to rile me up as much; and therefore, I only see things that might rile me up when it’s my intention to do so.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
Kyub’s right.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
Sure thing, Jan.
Your valuable input is most appreciated. Have a pleasant afternoon.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
Totally.
They should be brave, like you’re brave, and levying meaningless critiques on the Internet.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
This, at least, is a fact.
You could have voted Green. You could have voted Marianne Williamson in the Democratic primary. The little power our voters do have they just wasted.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
LOL
Sure, Jan.
We should stop it. Period. Most Americans are working three jobs and 100 hours a week to be able to rent a roach-infested studio and keep their kids from starving.
AI isn’t even in the top ten of issues that most Americans have the time or energy to confront in a meaningful way.
But let’s not allow the reality of life in this country to interfere with a good, silly Internet screed.
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 1 week ago:
No, the USA is not fucked.
Everything happening now has happened before, and worse, and the USA has endured. It may take some time, but the US will be fine.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 1 week ago:
Thanks.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 1 week ago:
Ah, thank you for the clarification.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 1 week ago:
I did, just made a mistake. Thank you and have a pleasant afternoon.