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    especially when the media points.
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    jfc that pastor loves fishsticks.
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    the president is so hung up on hyrdoxycholoroquine.. i wish he'd just let it go already. but guess he owns stock or something.
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    that sucks. so 10 alcoholics going through the DTs seeking relief. shame they couldn't throw a brick through the window of a liquor store and gotten some booze..
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    One of the first ships to resume cruising is having a COVID outbreak https://thepointsguy.com/news/covid-outbreak-hurtigruten-norway/
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    i think Greta is great. I was doing a gloomy satire. i was not in any way politically active when i was 16. there was no cause that propelled me other than typical 16 yr old shit. fukushima was a wake up for some. it seemed inevitable though.. the location, insufficient contingency plan (thank fuck for those smart ass engineers on site who managed the crisis with macguiver-like solutions at the cost of their lives), and low sea wall and arguably some bad decisions about where to put the back up generators. i'm no engineer and hindsight is 2020 but damn it seems obvious after watching a few documentaries that it was only a matter of time. there are other countries w/issues w/storing spent fuel. a shame that we can't get some modern nuclear going becuase hte designs are far superior in every way. some use spent fuel from other reactors for fuel. other use thorium molten salt. Bill Gates was working hard w/a group on building the first modern reactor in china when trump became president and some of the trade war bullshit poopoo'd that. there's a good doc on the technology and how the pentagon fucked it up so many years ago because they wanted things a certain way for powering ships and submarines. this is gates' company https://www.terrapower.com the story about the construction stopping in china https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a25728221/terrapower-china-bill-gates-trump/ obviously it's not solved.. nuclear might make an important bridge to whatever comes as we hopefully transition to renewables and off fossil fuels entirely but there's still plenty to be done there obviously. here's the preview PBS doc The Nuclear Option from the Nova science show. I found it fascinating. couldn't find it on youtube other than a bunch of spoofs where people put the title of the doc over anti-nuke stuff. it's probably on the torrents though. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/the-nuclear-option/
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    we'd need at least 10 more greta thundbergs.. maybe 11.
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    thankfully it's a state law that insurance has to cover it except for $100. other states mandate 100% coverage
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    Where’d that Epstein thread go? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/31/underage-girl-forced-to-have-sex-with-prince-andrew-us-court-document-jeffrey-epstein Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    it's frustrating. i super roasted amoderator of the logic user group some years ago and those comments were deleted even though there was much lulz from other members of that prissy community where you can't refer to apple in a negative light in any way. we need an archive of the deleted! ?
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    i think it's when you eat a wasp nest.
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    driving on the freeway this morning a rock hit my windshield.. left a little divit and tiny spiderweb crack. ugh.
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    there's always been a lot of music. yes, more recording than ever.. largely due to the availability of relatively low cost home recording solutions. but do we need to talk about the signal to noise ratio of what's out there? saying "but there's so much music" doesn't really have much to do with streaming. anyone can make a hundred shitty tracks and put them on spotify w/o much effort. quantity doesn't equal quality. also, there's a discussion about professional vs hobby in this somewhere. it's easy to see in the future that there could be very few professional musicians who do it full time and make a living at it enough to dedicate themselves to it. this could happen for any number of reasons but things like near zero income from streaming services play a part.
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    it's just piracy by another means imo. i the money is so little for most artists that it's trivial. i'd rather people download off soulseek than give money to spotify. It's part of the reason i made most of my releases 'name your price' on bandcamp. people who are broke can download for $0 and people who feel like it can pay $5 or whatever. i don't think the requirement of internet or data to listen to music is at all convenient. but i get it.. the writing is on the wall. i just don't think it's a sustainable situation for artists. it's devaluing to music and art in general. the price is set so low that people expect it to be free. it's not sustainable.
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    shit. RIP Malik https://www.cbsnews.com/news/malik-b-the-roots-dead-age-47-cause-of-death-not-released/
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    throwing a shit ton of 320bit rate mp3s on a phone takes no time. i'm not making the quality argument. that'll be dead eventually whenever we're surrounded by 10,000 amazon/tesla satellites blasting the planet w/broadband. i'm not making any excuses about why i'm not making bank off music. i know why i'm not making bank off music. it's not spotify's fault. however there are a shit ton of working msuicians out there making ago of it and streaming does zero for them. absolutely nothing. yet spotify uses their music and the artist gets nothign in return. it's simply not equitable. it's a bad deal. I know it's super conveient to stream for a lot of people.. i consider ultra convenience to often be pretty lazy. consider me brain dead if you want. shrug. it's designed to be that way so people make no real effort other than the fans who get into it and make playlists there share "look i made this IDM playlist with 300 of my favorite songs and it took 2 weeks" yada yada yada.. i get it. i just think it's fucking lame and mostly a passive experience. i think we can do better than surrender to tech bros applying their same metric for how they sell purple mattresses to how music is delivered. as for major record labels.. yeah.. we can split the difference there. most were just like banks laoning money to pay for a record to be made then pushing the product.. but a history of major labels is more interesting than now. from blues and jazz and hip hop etc.. there's all kinds of horror stories of musicians getting ripped off but also all kinds of glory for artists who had life long careers. annnyyyywayyy... i'd be less annoyed with spotify if they actually gave a shit about artists and paid people instead of paying $2 million a month in rent to have their office in the world trade center. i wonder what artists actually get paid from streaming? other than beyonce i mean... i'll have to dig up this article i read a while back that laid it out like the money flows from the bottom up when it comes to streaming.. and that's how the entire music industry has gone the last 15 years or so. all the gains at the top. https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/09/26/spotify-33-million-world-trade-center/ Spotify Is Paying $2.77 Million a Month In Rent for Its World Trade Center Offices Spotify’s splashy World Trade Center digs include 14 floors of breathtaking scenery. But it also required a 17-year lease — for more than $566 million in total rent.
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    tweet of God said it's very hard to aim the virus at one specific person.
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    seriously fuck that platform and this fucking douchebag. i'm glad i pulled all my stuff from these shitty streaming services. couldn't find the apropriate thread to bump so i started a new one. i hate the idea of "content creators" for explotative services like spotify that just want to please their stock holders. gives me rage vibes. lazy passive listeners who pay pennies a month even though their phones have plenty of room for quality copies of their favorite 30 or 50 albums. wHo hAs ThE tImE tO SeT uP tHeiR pHoNe fOr ThAt??? /rant https://www.thefader.com/2020/07/30/spotify-ceo-daniel-ek-says-working-musicians-can-no-longer-release-music-only-once-every-three-to-four-years?utm_source=tftw
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    https://newrepublic.com/article/158684/white-house-staffers-coronavirus
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    had to look her up. what laugh that was. her about page on her website is hilarious. her IMDB even more funny. Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance - is an example of her work as a "hollywood elite". I guess she shows her fake boobs a lot or something. not that there's anything wrong w/that but it's funny she characterized herself as a hollywood elite who 'opted out' of california's "insane taxes and unconstitutional gun laws". she ran for congress and came in 3rd in the primary a while back. the replies to that tweet are just as insane as you'd guess.
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    oof.
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