sad_detective_man
@sad_detective_man@leminal.space
- Comment on Power Word: OBEY 22 hours ago:
yeah this is awesome. is it basically The Dark Tower?
- Comment on The Picture of the Century... Nature defeats Technology 2 days ago:
that’s good. I’m glad the birb isn’t at risk while killing the robit
- Comment on The Picture of the Century... Nature defeats Technology 2 days ago:
I hope that doesn’t hurt to do. it’s cool as hell to see but I’m unaware of how many rotor blade impacts a hollow bird bone can take
- Comment on Tech Firms Like Google and Meta Are Embracing the Military 3 days ago:
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 4 days ago:
nah we’re done. I already said but you don’t listen. have a good night ✌️
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 4 days ago:
you’re right. not by a certain type of internet person. nothing personal, but the shame of being a fragile baby is actually worth that boundary and there are other better interactions for us both to go have
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 4 days ago:
yeeesh. I realize now that getting artists paid is obviously way less important to you than having somebody to verbally spar with. this is reductive and overall pretty naive to the actual experience of being in the workforce or trying to consume ethically.
instead of shouldering the responsibility of being your debate partner, I’m going to bow out and bid you a good life 👍 perhaps somebody else here would like to take turns quote tweeting and making character assessments with you.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 4 days ago:
mpc, is that shuffling media player cassic with the system clock? isn’t that what shuffle already does ?
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 4 days ago:
it really isn’t though. I don’t really know where you live or how your local economy is organized but where I’m at people in my tax bracket are extracted for every ounce of raw money we can generate, both now but even speculatively in the future. it really doesn’t make sense to consider theft as a taboo against corporations since we are literally a resource that’s being exploited in real time for far much more than whatever artists would lose if we all stole.
.sopuli is a Finnish board right? my understanding is that you guys have way stronger social ethics and consumer protection, so yeah. in your world I probably would sign up for that Napster subscription again. or even better, a service actually from Finland. Bandcamp is good too.
here, though in the present we are have far worse things to worry about than theft. being tricked into defending the feelings of billionaires is a big one. letting corporations curate our education and media is another. but I hope you continue to have the life where you can engage with your economy in such a good intentioned way.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 4 days ago:
woah woah woah, chill bro goddamn. let’s sit and think about this. Record labels take pretty much all of the cut for streaming. Here is the chart showing what each service pays artists per song played. I used to think Napster was the best and subscribed to them for years, which is ironic considering their history Image
obviously the payout is going to vary widely but it’s common knowledge that for even the most played artists, the pay from this avenue sucks. they simply use these services to get their music to potential concert goers since that’s the income that record labels actually let artists keep. vinyls, merch, and usually tickets unless they REALLY get fucked over like child musician groups tend to.
If You have an interest in discovering just how shady that industry is, you should watch this essay about payola and how it’s literally more profitable for a musician to die than it release a certain number of future albums. I’m going to stick to pirating albums and using my cash to actually see the artists I love
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 4 days ago:
I know so many people who are so ride-or-die for never having to manage the file space for their own music library and they don’t seem particularly less stressed.
I think they just cannot live without an algorithm to recommend new music to them
- Comment on change_org 1 week ago:
okay that’s where I’m calling it. your memory issues or inability to scroll up this emberassing ass thread aren’t my problem. feel free to continue this conversation in your vapid fucking vacuum but I won’t be receiving the notifications.
- Comment on What a wanker 1 week ago:
I love how he switched up to smacking his own ass
- Comment on change_org 1 week ago:
look, I’m not a quote text guy. if you can’t keep track of which of your statements I’m replying to, sure maybe I’m speeking Greek. But also it’s possible that you were just the wrong person for me to attempt responding to. Some people can’t introspect and need to make excuses for every thing they said that might have sounded weak and childish. it’s fine, maybe I’ll remember that next time somebody paragraph-replies to a three word observation I make.
- Comment on change_org 1 week ago:
Look if we benefit from living in this country, which we do don’t be ignorant, then we also have a responsibility to help make the world less shitty using whichever priveledges we can.
don’t pretend what I’m doing here is trying to make you feel bad, you obviously feel too bad to even try do except look out for you. what I’m trying to do here is make someone reading this give a fuck. hopefully they will care more about our home than you do.
- Comment on change_org 1 week ago:
My dude we severed ourselves from an empire over the literal phrase “no taxation without representation”. that’s what it means. and yeah, back then we only meant white people and now we only mean people with money but the tools to effect change are right here. we built them into our national identity. if you really don’t see it, I encourage you to look harder. seek communities of like-minded potential voters or capital stormers.
we’re all connected and effect the system we live in small ways that add up. you may disavow your contribution but that in itself is a decision that effects everything. our parents pretending otherwise is why it got like this. us continuing to do so is causing the next genocide.
- Comment on change_org 1 week ago:
I’m also American. yes we are to blame for the actions of our country because our country was founded on the principle that we would get a say in what it does no matter what. We even have a hierarchy of rights to protect our ability to take responsibility for our country’s actions. From our right to free speech that protects our ability to protest, to our right to vote which protects our right to choose (in theory), to our right to own guns which allows us to protect the first two rights (when we don’t let anyone limit 2a), to our right to be educated enough to exercise all the previous rights.
When things have gone as wrong as they have, sure there are bad actors involved but at some point we fucked up and that’s on us. There will always be bad actors and we gotta be more responsible than just letting it go saying "well I didn’t have a choice ". Our failures affect the whole world.
- Comment on change_org 1 week ago:
they hated that 🤣
- Comment on Warner Bros. Games is working on another live-service game, despite Suicide Squad flop 1 week ago:
who is actually buying these? I thought having disposable income would preclude someone from thinking a live service grind that’s dead in a couple of months is a good use of time
- Comment on ‘We’re terribly sorry’: South Park creators respond with humour to White House anger over naked Donald Trump 2 weeks ago:
god if they could keep this energy up it would be amazing. it feels like an outburst of obscenity after years of being cowed and docile
- Comment on Can you believe it? 2 weeks ago:
literally 1984, freedom is dead
- Comment on eggs 2 weeks ago:
too performative and pretentious. my dude gets his meat by simply asking the prey with a series of clicks and whistles like god intended
- Comment on eggs 2 weeks ago:
Dude eats all his meals out of a blender for efficiency and stoicism
- Comment on Lemmy is ... ahhrrr, c'mon ... WTF? ... the door! ... who the hell would ... ? ... where is this darn towel ... AHHH, FUUU ... hnnnrrghhh ... 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t go anywhere without my lovely towel
- Comment on who up wasting their youth 3 weeks ago:
mmmm yeah maybe it’s not the specific vice, just the presence of a vice. brb, gonna go try to hook up at a Narcacon meeting
- Comment on who up wasting their youth 3 weeks ago:
would sell my soul for a stoner disaster who also wasted her youth
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Stephen no
- Comment on Napster - I miss it. All free and it worked great 3 weeks ago:
Alright old timer, let’s get you into Soulseek
- Comment on poor jeremy 4 weeks ago:
yeah can snails only have sex once?
- Comment on Microsoft shares $500M in AI savings internally days after cutting 9,000 jobs 4 weeks ago:
on one hand, booo ai baaaad 👎👎 however average experience with Microsoft software engineers says nothing may have been lost
