I don’t think it was money that changed youtube, i think it was the algo, it now promotes viral content that for some reason has a persons face in the thumbnail with an exaggerated face :O

super necessary if we expect anyone (outside of hobbyists) to even think of putting their content on the fediverse first or at the same time as other platforms

Quickly and effortlessly get some music playing that can act as a backdrop for your real activity such as working, driving, cooking, hosting friends, etc. Keep it rolling indefinitely. The particular songs don’t matter much. They are fungible as long as the general mood stays consistent.

can’t relate

i find new awesome music all the time, i only found i loved hardstyle 8 years ago, techno 5 years ago, vaporwave like a year ago

This is a fantastic service if you’re not that interested in music and are just looking for the aural version of mediocre Ikea artwork to cover the bare walls of your day

if you want to make it harder for yourself to discover new music then cool, but don’t imply that because you used spotify as a sort of cafe jazz background radio that we all use it like this

have you tried getting a job?

anymore details on how they deviate? what specifically is more secure about an iphone than an android?

Feel free to go into deep details if you have them or links

im not sure why you say streaming is out due to bad coverage areas? on spotify throw your music into a playlist then select download and then even if you’re offline it still plays

ok? im in the top 1% of the world, keep telling me to be oppressed 😄

instead of blank expressions maybe use your brain to argue your case?

Disagreeing, the comic is stupid in its comparison of voluntarily wearing headphones and living under an authoritarian government, one is very easy to change (literally just buy an alternative), the other quite difficult.

isn’t the first panel (of the original comic) the very definition of, “act on your principles when you have ample ability to do so”?

Why would it be? They bought the headphones knowing full well the company behind them

If consumers wanted to they could severely punish Apple and go with a company that makes smartphones in the west or not in chinese sweat shops, there are companies like https://www.fairphone.com/ and https://e.foundation/e-os/ and they’re ok, but the demand just isn’t there, hence the memes

The people have voted with their wallets and are ok with billionaires and slaves making iphones

Firstly nobody holds a gun to your head and forces you to buy shit from billionaires

Secondly oh wait

US Amazon Prime Membership Finally Hits 200 Million

https://cirpamazon.substack.com/p/us-amazon-prime-membership-finally

I can’t hear you over the sound of how much people don’t care about billionaires

Yeah was at least 9 months ago back in March 2025:

Diplomacy dies on live TV as Trump and Vance gang up to bully Ukraine leader

https://lemmy.world/post/26176375

instead of blank expressions maybe use your brain to argue your case?

tbf this isn’t communist russia or china, if the people hated oligarchs enough they could boycott them easily in the west

but people like their apple iphones, disney plus, amazon shit

the people voted the oligarchs into power with their wallets

“At the time, I didn’t even know this type of attack existed,” Delezenne said.

mate this is a new one for all of us

i cannot believe the balls on this guy, fuck him

The anti-ai dilemma: ai is as stupid as the metaverse and it’s going to take all our jobs.

head of the artificial intelligence and machine learning research lab at microsoft sound better?

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does your blog have a blackhole in it somewhere you forgot about 😄

the one with the quadrillion hits is this bad boy: https://www.babbar.tech/crawler

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