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After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

fukurthumz420 ,

thank you. the fact that we aren’t rioting to have more automated services that pass the cost benefit on to the people is something i’ll never understand. we have the tools to build utopia but they can;t figure out how to make enough money from it.

fukurthumz420 ,

the music i get access to for the price i pay is worth far more than the money i don’t get for the music i wrote.

fukurthumz420 ,

no thanks. i hate the entire concept of insurance (especially lawfully forced insurance). there’s no way i want them spying on me.

there are parts of the west where there’s not another car for miles. why should i be punished for minor infractions on a lonely country road when i put no one but myself at risk? this is the same as getting ticketed by a camera for running a red light in the middle of nowhere.

if the law and technology becomes a tool of oppression, it no longer serves a useful purpose for mankind.

fukurthumz420 ,

i think that if i am going to be forced to purchase a product from the market, then the government should just provide the product. add the damages to my tax bill if i get in an accident that’s my fault.

but don’t make me buy shit just to function in society.

it’s a scam. the money you pay in is always more than they pay out. it’s a for profit industry that i’m forced to fund. it’s a racket, no different from organized crime.

fukurthumz420 ,

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Banality at its finest

fukurthumz420 ,

@Dasus Man, if Boeing had only sung or used nonviolent resistance, I’ll bet these whistleblowers would have backed down as witnesses.

Also, tankman is dead. He got ran over by a tank. He really showed them.

fukurthumz420 ,

you know what? you’ve inspired me. believe it or not, i am a person who can change their mind. i’m going to play devil’s advocate here and take up the opposite position to what you propose, not because i want to prove i’m right but because you’ve taken the time to back up your argument with cited examples. i appreciate that. should we start a new thread somewhere? i’m new to lemmy so i’m not exactly sure where the right place would be. i have a lot to do today, so i won’t be able to counter you quickly.

let me just say that i’m not angry (well… i’m angry, but not at you). i recognize that we’re on the same side and i don’t want to disparage a fellow comrade. i respect the fact that you’ve had military training, and if i can prove you wrong, i hope that you would take a second look at the value you provide to the cause.

we’ll discuss this more, hopefully.

fukurthumz420 ,

i can’t cite a source, but i was under the impression he was widely believed to have been run over by the tanks.

fukurthumz420 ,

^my man

fukurthumz420 ,

so then vote for trump, right? gtfooh

fukurthumz420 ,

sure. hold humanity hostage because you can’t get exactly what you want, traitor. i’m not going to kiss your ass to vote for practical results. if you’re too blind to see what you’re doing, you can live with the consequences. i have a feeling you have a lot more time left on this planet than i do, junior.

fukurthumz420 ,

criticize him all you want… after he’s elected.

we all hate the either/or state of american politics, but it’s still the reality. live in reality, ppl.

fukurthumz420 ,

what don’t you understand about my statement?

fukurthumz420 ,

you mean to tell me you’re going to vote for jill stein in november? what state do you live in? it better not be a battle ground state

fukurthumz420 ,

do you understand how american elections work? are you in a battleground state?

fukurthumz420 ,

DO. YOU. LIVE. IN. A BATTLEGROUND STATE?

fukurthumz420 ,

i’m not going to argue with you. i can see from your comment history that you’re a lost cause. you are damning people to consequences they don’t deserve, which makes you no different from conservatives. you are effectively the enemy and deserve to be treated the same.

fukurthumz420 ,

this is me telling you to pull your head out of your ass and think about consequences. stop replying to me. i have nothing more to say to you, traitor.

fukurthumz420 ,

You can’t even accept you consent to bombing children in Gaza with your Biden vote.

nah. my vote doesn’t mean that. what a very dumb thing to say, traitor.

You lost the argument, and now are trying to find a way out lmao.

lol. you’re fucking delusional, traitor.

fukurthumz420 ,

nope. fuck off.

fukurthumz420 ,

man, you gotta get the idea out of your head that only evil people murder. we killed plenty of nazis and the world is better for it. pacifists never win.

fukurthumz420 ,

oh, you can do it too my friend

fukurthumz420 ,

or you can hope it doesn’t happen until it does and then you’re standing there with your pants down. the entire future of every living thing on this planet may come down to whether we have the balls to do the right thing or not. the path to utopia may not be pretty, but when hell on earth is a possibility, you kinda don’t have a choice.

fukurthumz420 ,

You’re hardly the first person to think that the end result is always the same

fukurthumz420 ,

we can do anything we set our minds to. we have the technology to allow one half of america to coordinate something that the other half has no clue about.

i honestly want to know how we can make it to the end of this century with half of the population perpetuating a culture of cruelty. how long will you deprive future generations of the utopia that we could be enjoying NOW if only the obstacles to that path were removed? how many innocent creatures will suffer and die before we do something?

fukurthumz420 ,

Insanity is doing nothing while you watch sociopaths ruin the world for all living creatures for the foreseeable future.

fukurthumz420 ,

nonviolent resistance worked in the 20th century because there were still plenty of people who cared or at least pretended to care. the 21st century is basically sociopaths, dissociative personality types, and pacifists. there’s no good people left with a spine and you’re about to see what that world breeds. it may already be too late.

fukurthumz420 ,

okay. tell me how you realistically think we’re going to avoid the coming dystopia then. show me a practical path that creates change for the better in time to stop our destructive path.

fukurthumz420 ,

All this completely ignores corporate greed ruining the planet. You’re talking about social issues. These are just the carrots that they (the owners) dangle in front of you to appease you every so many years. This is not a path towards utopia (which is currently completely feasible). This is just social progress.

You think they’re ever going to just allow themselves to be dethroned?

I’m 50. I’ve been watching this shit show closely since 9/11. Let me tell you, this is all just progress theater. Protests on campus? lol. They don’t care. They’ll just use it to justify more authoritarianism. They’ll let you show your activism on social media until you get bored of it, finally cave in and become another cog in the machine.

None of you are any different from the hippies in the 60’s. They will infantilize you in the media (they already are) and move on. Slow progress is just the status quo now. None of it will stop the next near extinction event that is coming.

fukurthumz420 ,

violence was never a viable option because organizing it has been impossible for the common man. we now have the tools to coordinate globally and discreetly.

fukurthumz420 ,

“What non-violent resistance movements of Jews were there in Europe?”

There was no resistance. everybody saw it coming and did nothing until it was too late.

“The battle for humanity’s future is fought with words, not bullets.”

The history books tell a very different story. Again, naive.

“Lovely irony in you trying to call someone else naive, as all you’re capable of is cheap “we should beat up the baddies” BS, which achieves less than nothing, being in itself harmful to the discourse.”

I promise you if the baddies fear for their life, they’re going to be very hesitant to roll over the people. If the last time X baddie attempted some sociopathic cruelty, they ended up picking up their teeth afterwards, they will think twice about doing it again.

“I’m actually in the military reserves. I’m trained and ready to defend my country, with weapons, if necessary. Can you say the same?”

I’m armed and trained as well buddy.

"It would be somewhat naive to call someone a “limp-wristed do-nothing”

If it walks like a duck…

"some poorly defined “them”

I have a list.

Again, you’re ignoring the last 4000 years of civilization if you think violence is an ineffective tool for change.

fukurthumz420 ,

You still can’t even define “the baddies”

Jim Grech Shaikh Nawaf S. Al-Sabah Michael Whatley Larry Fink Clarence Thomas Samuel Alito Neil Gorsuch Jonathan Lockwood Tucker Carlson Ryan Lance Amin H. Nasser Greg Abbott

I could go on…

But whatever. You refuse to acknowledge that the death of any of those guys would be a win for humanity? I guarantee you we would see more results with swift action in that direction than useless protests and -checks notes- singing.

fukurthumz420 ,

as i said in my previous reply, i’d like to really explore our differences in depth. i would like to mention now that, if you rinse repeat the process i described, no one would ever want that job and without leadership, these companies would begin to crumble and exert less influence over global politics.

fukurthumz420 ,

and what’s the solution? ____ all conservatives for the sake of humanity

fukurthumz420 ,

you have to look. it’s important. know what we are capable of and be prepared to fight it. most of you are good people. don’t be victims.

fukurthumz420 ,

sorry kid. you can’t hide form the world forever. we need those who are most disgusted to be the ones that break the cycle.

fukurthumz420 ,

amen

Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

I’m sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I’m sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I’m sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it’s been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one...

fukurthumz420 ,

yeah, my android did better at predictive text than my iphone does. it refuses to recognize even the simplest proper nouns on many occasions.

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