The better comparison with Spotify is that it’s a mafia that you pay $11 / month for the rest of your life and they give you a bunch of free music but if you ever stop paying, they’ll bust into your house and take it all away.
Vs. spending $10 for an album you might not like but you can sell it, give it to a friend, or put it in storage for 10 years until you find it during a move and realize your tastes changed and now this album fucking rocks (happened to me with a few things).
Oh and Bandcamp ftw. You can listen to most albums free for a few times and when you buy it, you own it forever w/o DRM - plus if you buy a hardcopy, you get a digital one free. I used to use Napster like that - as a shit quality preview of an album I might end up buying later.
Bandcamp just got purchased by a shit head company and is laying off staff…I’ve got 1500+ albums on bandcamp it’s fucking great and about to be fucked.
Okay, but they give you DRM free downloads. If EPIC kills them, you still own every album as long as you download it. I’ll be sad if Bandcamp dies, but I can still play all music I got from it. That’s the way it should be.
Oh I am doing just that, it is going to be a pain in the ass, but I am going to download the full library in FLAC format. And it not Epic anymore is Songster or something like that.
2 Hidden valley ranch packets, 1 tbsp onion powder, 1 tbsp garlic powder, 1 tbsp salt, and 1 tbsp paprika if you want to try to make it yourself. It tastes exactly the same to me.
You can paint the tortilla chips with canola oil and sprinkle the seasoning on. Or just drink the seasoning with a straw if you want to.
Just another way business downloads costs into it’s employees. Can’t improve working conditions with W@H, vacation, sicktime, work load, shorter hours or pay raises. Instead everyone gets $1.00 a pay taken off for the EAP program so they can watch webinars on mindfulness in their own time.
Having worked for a state government which maintained data for federal submissions in 15 different versions of the same giant excel file on 15 different computers, it’s scary how accurate this is.
I’ve worked at private companies where this is the case too lol.
This is true even when better software would work instead of the one-size-fits-all-but-isn’t-suitable Excel.
Often to get it to work the way I want is through VBA scripting. And at that point I should be using other software but companies are cheap and don’t want to invest in better tech.
I think it is getting better. I have a “Boys Get Sad Too” hoodie (recommend them wholeheartedly) and so far I have gotten only positive comments, even from people where you might not have expected it.
As I get older it only gets worse. in my 20s I could talk to people about stuff. Now that I'm almost 40, nobody wants anything to do with me the second I open up about any sort of issue going on in my life.
Recently my mother has been dealing with dementia and it's been very hard on me and my sister since my mother is becoming this abusive. Anytime I mention this, even casually to people i used to think of friends, people look at me like I'm an asshole.
Guess what? Right now I'm working on a project pretty much nonstop because I want to
I'm invested in the task, I want to get back to work immediately after breakfast (right now) because I know what I'm doing is important, and that when I have nothing important to do, I can just play mahjong or something online.
Treating your workers like competent, motivated adults will make them want to be competent, motivated adults.
So I have noticed that 12ft.io is having problem with newer articles. Anything posted in the last 3 or 4 days seems to not have been scraped by whatever they are using or however they are using it. I’ve also seen some people say that they’ve taken money from corporations to not scrape articles. Now I don’t know if that is true, but I will do some research and get back to this shortly.
Pretty sure they do take money, I’ve had some websites not work and it showed some sort of message. I forgot exactly what it said but it wasn’t an error.
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