Eyekaytee
@Eyekaytee@aussie.zone
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 9 hours ago:
Michael Bloomberg
That’s the one!
Bloomberg spent nearly $1 billion on his three-month presidential campaign
nbcnews.com/…/bloomberg-spent-nearly-1-billion-hi…
So my next question is:
Just 158 families have provided nearly half of the early money for efforts to capture the White House
Just how effective is advertising in the presidential race when you can spend a billion and go no where?
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 9 hours ago:
Yep sorry it was Michael Bloomberg
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 10 hours ago:
wasn’t there some billionaire that ran for president, spent hundreds of millions and got like <1% of the vote?
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 1 day ago:
What I didn’t go into depths to describe is that the vast majority of their money goes to big labels and several big artists
Yes, that’s how the algo works, unfortunately most people have no taste in music, if the people suddenly decide that avant garde orchestral metal is popular, then those artists will make more money as their plays and share of the pie goes up
So, they continue to give most artists, especially small/new artists next to nothing, exploiting them.
Welcome to the music industry m8
Published June 14, 2000 7:02PM (EDT)
So their profit is $6.6 million; the band may as well be working at a 7-Eleven.
www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
That said this is a very specific argument to make, you said
Spotify’s whole business model is exploitation.
Now you’re saying, yes many people make lots of money and I saw no disagreement that the music industry raking in 10 billion in a year benefits from Spotify BUT new and non-popular artists find it tough to make money and that’s exploitation
In 2024, More Music Is Released in a Single Day Now Than in All of 1989
The algorithm is simple, the more listens you get, the bigger the pie you have, the more you get paid.
The reality is that small/new artists are now competing in a field that is flooded, it’s hard to complain of exploitation if you are simply trying to swim in an ocean and finding it difficult
It sucks but this is life in the 21st century with computers, it’s also not going to get better with AI allowing people who can’t work photoshop to make pictures and people who can’t work logic pro to make music
I also give Spotify credit for music discovery: aussie.zone/post/19441027/16055498
It has never been easier for people to go outside the box and discover new music, it’s just a shame most people don’t
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 1 day ago:
It pays four tenths of a tenth of a cent per stream ($0.004), while raking in billions of profit each year.
I think you’re confusing Spotify with Apple or Google, It only just last year:
Spotify Just Turned an Annual Profit for the First Time Ever
thedailyupside.com/…/spotify-just-turned-an-annua…
This is the same year it paid out
its collective payments to the music industry for 2024 totaled $10 billion.
10 billion not bad for a business model that’s “exploitation”
One of the things people struggle to understand is that it’s not the 70’s anymore, there is more music being uploaded every minute that you can listen to in a year, this has a diluting effect on the value of the thing being uploaded
Listen to music on whatever service, then if you like the artists music - buy the album, or the track / single. Sure, you may support fewer artists this way, but each artist gets paid literally 2500 times as much (album averages 9.99).
I do agree with this though
- Comment on Dr Fiona Stanley: ‘If we want better health outcomes, the last thing we need is more doctors and hospitals’ 1 day ago:
where a local doctor had refused to treat an Aboriginal child without upfront payment
I wonder why he’d do that…🙄
“So Eric and I got that doctor struck off the register.”
That’s really good now instead of not being able to help 1 person he can’t help any, and it’s not like there’s a shortage of doctors or anything in regional Australia
GP shortage contributing to ‘bidding war’ as regional towns struggle to attract doctors
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-22/…/104837214
Oh… lady sounds insufferable
- Comment on TIL about Jervis Bay Territory 2 days ago:
Aboriginal Australian people long lived over the area of Jervis Bay.[9] The area underwent significant change 18,000 to 7,500 years ago when the sea level rose, displacing inhabitants of previously coastal areas, resulting in dramatic population redistribution.
So they are used to climate change already?
- Comment on Be honest whose actually working today and who is goofing off 2 days ago:
no work friday would be more work monday so yeah… i work
- Comment on University hit with sanctions warning after Iranian government media attended event on campus 2 days ago:
Senator Payman later apologised for her comments that suggested Iran was an “incredible place” for women.
lol ouch
- Comment on In California, plans to move low-income neighborhoods off of gas advance 2 days ago:
Same in Victoria Australia
Gas hot water systems to be phased out of Victorian homes under new energy reforms
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-24/…/105451354
We had so much gas and it was so amazing and cheap and now we’re running out of it
- Comment on I know you degenerates want it 3 days ago:
🤢
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 3 days ago:
China also continues to increase coal generation by more than renewables.
I don’t believe this:
ember-energy.org/countries-and-regions/china/
In 2024, China approved 66.7GW of new coal-fired capacity, started construction on 94.5GW of coal power projects
Even if you add these 2 together and pretend they were finished the same year it’s not even close to:
China’s renewable energy sector made remarkable progress in 2024, adding 356 gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar capacity
They have missed every single renewable target and goal they’re set.
I don’t believe this is true either unless you are referring to some other targets?
In 2020, China set a goal to install at least 1,200 gigawatts (GW) of solar and wind power by 2030. By the end of 2024, China had already surpassed this target, reaching this milestone 6 years ahead of schedule. This was made possible by aggressive investments, government policies, and a surge in solar and wind installations.
China’s solar capacity grew by an incredible 45.2% in 2024, adding 277 GW. Wind capacity also saw a strong increase of 18%, with an additional 80 GW installed. Overall, total power generation capacity rose by 14.6% in 2024, driven mainly by renewables.
carboncredits.com/chinas-renewable-energy-boom-a-…
China is only %27 renewables while the EU is 47%.
Don’t worry, just like everything else in the near future that will flip with China having more renewables than the EU
You have plenty of money apparently to suddenly:
NATO leaders on Wednesday confirmed their commitment to more than double defence spending by 2035 banding words like “crucial”, “momentous” and “quantum leap”, but the summit also exposed rifts over how the US and Europe perceive Ukraine and Russia.
euronews.com/…/defence-spend-to-5-of-gdp-ukraine-…
Global energy storage owner-operator BW ESS and Spanish energy storage developer Ibersun say a new joint venture is intended to build eight four-hour battery projects across the country, with a combined capacity of 2.2 GW, 8.8 GWh.
…com.au/no-time-to-waste-huge-big-battery-plans-u…
On top of this energy prices in the EU are ridiculous and for some reason they still can’t get off the gas, so they have high energy prices and their companies and manufacturing are leaving them… to go to China…
But I appreciate your scepticism, especially for China, they are the worlds top producer of CO2 by FAR but I do want to address
Greenwashing
This is something I’ve wanted for a while:
It requires EU importers to pay a levy corresponding to the embedded carbon emissions in 303 emission-intensive products
oecd.org/…/what-to-expect-from-the-eu-carbon-bord…
I’ve long disliked that places like the EU and the rest of the west can export their dirty manufacturing over to China where companies take advantage of lax or no environmental regulations, it’s a false economy and makes the west look a whole lot greener and cleaner than it should if we were manufacturing what we used back at home
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 3 days ago:
🤔 it was made into fancy graphs by the guy on Bluesky but the data was from ember-energy.org who are well known for supplying renewable stats
- Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people)aussie.zone ↗Submitted 3 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 148 comments
- Australia Deepens Collaboration with NATO and Takes Further Action to Hold Russia to Accountwww.minister.defence.gov.au ↗Submitted 3 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Minimum wage, parental leave and road fines: what’s changing on 1 July 4 days ago:
Good news for those on the bottom income line, the minimum wage will increase by 3.5%, to $948 per week or $24.95 per hour, based on a 38-hour work week. The changes are expected to impact 2.6 million and will apply from the first full pay after July 1.
😲
- Comment on Tasmanian leaders struggle with a basic fact: environment laws should protect the environment 5 days ago:
I don’t think this article addresses the elephant in the room:
Yes, Tasmania relies significantly on federal support as part of its state revenue. In the 2025-26 budget, federal government funding is a major component, contributing approximately $2.545 billion to Tasmania’s total revenue of about $9.45 billion, alongside GST revenue of $3.778 billion (which itself is federal revenue distributed to states). This means federal funding and GST together make up nearly two-thirds of the state’s revenue base, underscoring Tasmania’s reliance on federal transfers to fund its services and infrastructure.
- Comment on PoV you found oil 1 week ago:
This was true years ago but the US has been the #1 producer of oil for a few years now
- Comment on Batteries are so cheap now, solar power doesn’t sleep 1 week ago:
do you have time of use charges?
if it’s more expensive to use power at night people are filling up during the day and using it at night, bit of electricity arbitrage
- Comment on I disappeared off TV screens seeking a different life. Here's what I found 1 week ago:
Every morning I wake in the cold before dawn to walk the hill past the shedding trees, from my house to the graveyard to sit with all the stories of all the people buried here.
The fuck this sounds awful, why would you do that
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 1 week ago:
yeah a lot of over reacting going on around here
- Comment on Batteries are so cheap now, solar power doesn’t sleep 1 week ago:
Australia but it’s not really applicable to other places, we now have strong gov incentives to get solar (STC’s) and batterys (battery rebate):
…com.au/home-batteries-and-rebates-what-you-need-…
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-07/…/105257914
I also live here: www.qhatlas.com.au/…/Qld sunshine state.jpg
So plenty of sun compared to countries way up north
- Comment on Batteries are so cheap now, solar power doesn’t sleep 1 week ago:
It’s true for me, 6.6kw solar system, 10kwh battery, I pretty much never run out of of power now, my grid usage is background noise
- Comment on BYD is testing solid-state EV batteries in its Seal sedan with nearly 1,200 miles of range 1 week ago:
if a choice between china and south korea i’m going korea every time, the difference between co2 emissions is staggering
- Comment on BYD is testing solid-state EV batteries in its Seal sedan with nearly 1,200 miles of range 1 week ago:
1930kms
that’s a lot of range
- Comment on Mastodon: New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content 1 week ago:
bit late m8
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 1 week ago:
your corporate IT department stick you with copilot as well eh?
- Comment on Check your energy rates! 1 week ago:
your daily supply charge is $5?
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 1 week ago:
tbh if this causes the whole school system to be re-evaluated I’ll be happy, school was so utterly streamlined and boring it felt more like a daycare than a genuine place to learn and improve
Cheating found to be rife in British schools and universities
This article is more than 10 years old
theguardian.com/…/cheating-rife-in-uk-education-s…
Chinese students and their parents fight for the right to cheat
Not cheating, they said, would put them at a disadvantage in a country where student cheating has become standard practice.
qz.com/…/chinese-students-and-their-parents-fight…
And it wouldn’t surprise me if it was literally everywhere, the push for schooling isn’t to learn, it’s to pass a test, so the incentive isn’t to learn, it’s to pass the test anyway you can
Maybe there is a lot more interaction in the future between students and teachers, you can have an assignment, study X, upload it on the web portal, and then maybe the next day there will be a 1 on 1 review where the student has to explain parts of it to ensure they understand what they’re doing
With AI I’m spending more of my time reading code than writing these days and I like to understand what I’m reading
- Comment on Check your energy rates! 1 week ago:
For everyone else you want to wait until all retailers have announced their price increases
From 1 July 2025, prices will rise across the 3 areas. Residential consumers will see increases ranging from 0.5% to 9.7% depending on their usage and location. The price rises for small businesses will range from 0.8% to 8.5%, depending on the same factors.
…gov.au/…/australian-energy-regulator-releases-ne…
So very likely most/all electricity retailers will pass this on, some just earlier than others
