Excuse me, but they’re called Matt Groening and David X Cohen. I’d rather you reference Futurama instead, because The Simpsons is zombified and not how they deserve to be remembered.
Downvoted for annoying title “touch grass”. I’ve never been told “touch grass” in a single scenario that made sense and not to mention I likely spend more time outdoors than anyone who has wrote that to me.
Also they probably got that worm by touching stuff, the right should be “wash your hands” or if you’re cheery “lávese las manos” with a tiny picture of wizard Steve on it somewhere.
Am I missing something, or why would you assume or expect that a Spotify peripheral could be used without a Spotify subscription? What even is this thing?
Based on OP it has other functions than just Spotify.
But things like that shouldn’t need a subscription. It’s a shitty thing to do.
Pelton, this car thing, etc. Have other functions that don’t require the subscription but by making it mandatory they give you a unusable piece of junk if you ever cancel.
They mean the instance should block image hosting. You can still host images on imgur/etc and link to them. Just makes it imgur’s problem to mop up the bad stuff instead of a small instance host without the resources.
I mean, Reddit didn’t have image upload support for the majority of its life. Even on Lemmy, a lot of people still upload images and videos to imgur, streamable, etc instead of using Lemmy’s built in image uploader.
I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not but they gave Joe Rogan a platform and pay him a lot of money for it. Probably other stuff too if they support that.
He’s the male Gwyneth Paltrow selling brain pills instead of Goop. He promotes alt-right and far-right conspiracies. He told people not to get the COVID vaccine. If he just interviewed people – even people from all sides – I’d be fine with it. Problem is he promotes dangerous conspiracies and usually ignores fact checking. He’s using his influence and authority to do harm. And worst of all, I think he just does it for the ratings.
Out of all the things that Spotify is shitty for that’s the least of my worries about them, and I fucking hate right-wing shitheads. People would rather see the artists they love starve if it gave them convenience to enjoy their art without actually paying for what they do.
It’s honestly kind of baffling to see people go up in arms enough to side with fucking Disney “in support of artists” because AI is supposedly stealing from them and the same people go on with their lives and put on Spotify and feel self-righteous. People fucking suck.
and the same people go on with their lives and put on Spotify and feel self-righteous
Yeah but consider that for me for example, I was previously giving exactly 0 to artists. Now I give whatever tiny amount my odd song played here or there pays out. Which is more than previously.
Is it a lot? No. Do I listen to a lot of music? Hell no. Did I buy any music before as a result? Fuck no. And now I sometimes listen to some. Plus the music I listen to I couldn’t buy in physical anyways (low-fi or synth background noise while coding), and wouldn’t know where to buy digital even if I wanted to. Previously I just used a noise generator, btw.
It’s probably not a good idea to assume that 100% of listeners on spotify would have invested that same amount of money into physical sales.
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