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by pas 2y ago
Exactly. Recordings of live sets, strange/interesting post/doom/stoner metal albums, and - for better or worse - all the bootlegged stuff that Spotify doesn't have because legal disputes as user uploads.
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by pas 2y ago
As far as I understand the recent decline in the numbers is that people stopped lying about which church they don't go to. Because church-goer numbers are stable. What happened during the last century is ... complicated. For one thing
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by pas 2y ago
um, many users are absolutely. this is still one ot the most frequent critique of these sites. for example Reddit with its IPO, and their bossing around of their unpaid mods, and so on. at least YT pays some money to creators.
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by pas 2y ago
big names complained too. also, of course it's a very frequently voiced "observation" that some percentage of a big amount of money... is a big amount itself, yet the marginal cost is - and you might not believe it, but - alm
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by pas 2y ago
their podcast integration works. it's not amaaazing but no issues with it. the migration from Google Play Music was pretty uneventful for me. (i assume folks with huge uploaded libraries might not share this impression.)
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by pas 2y ago
YT Music recommender algo is pretty good. Easy to start a mix/radio from any track/video or playlist. There are public playlists, though I have no idea how well curated they are.
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by pas 2y ago
Very few people have to go to Russia, and if you must, take a train or a bus.
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by pas 2y ago
Data please. The default is that people don't fucking care. Especially tourists. MBS can organize music festivals every week and people would go if it's not too expensive. Qatar hosted the world cup in 2022, and guess who was pick
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by pas 2y ago
What do you mean two timelines? The movie is about the daywalker, who goes on 2-3 week long business trips every few weeks and ...
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by pas 2y ago
Also worth considering that social phenomena is hard to measure. https://asteriskmag.com/issues/08/the-myth-of-the-loneliness...
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by pas 2y ago
So, people moving away is not new and not surprising, and happens all over the world, it's basically the main driver of urbanization. What's new was (rich) people moving "back" (to suburbs for the American Dream, and now
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by pas 2y ago
Batteries, yes. And there's an emergency generator that runs on diesel (big ships run on "bunker oil") which can be started with batteries or manually. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_Y2VNS5TFFY (this on
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by pas 2y ago
What's your proposal?
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by pas 2y ago
... arms in a wide shrug ... well, yes, and ... it was always like this, no? DARPA was defense money, Xerox PARC was corporate money. The one big success I can quickly name that's "pure" is the web from CERN. (Okay I looked
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by pas 2y ago
Ah yes the closed doors of the world wide web consortium. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webauthn/ (nb. I'm not saying the folks were easy to work with or super open to discussion, but it wa
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by pas 2y ago
Those are pretty strong claims. KeePassXC has support. Many people use Vaultwarden. And so on. Also, end users are already locked into Chrome and Safari (and Meta's webview and even worse fates). Passkeys right now has upsides and down
857.
by pas 2y ago
... strictly speaking it's not about the actual zones or whatnot. for example standard reference/model/template plans should not require long permitting over and over and over and over again. (and, yes, of course this is a fu
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by pas 2y ago
on windows VSCode is a great way to remote into a VM with with a sane-er OS.
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by pas 2y ago
Sure, and we're the vocal (?) minority here. The SOHO/corporate/family world will uncritically use whatever shit MS regurgitates for them for all the usual reasons.
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by pas 2y ago
how people know when a remaster is good or bad?
861.
by pas 2y ago
youtube recommendations? subreddits? check tracklists of DJs, check your favourite labels on Bandcamp. Shazam is pretty good! check lineups of concerts/festivals that you like.
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by pas 2y ago
> spotify is such an easy platform. it's not for me. YT was. SoundCloud too. (Now SoundCloud also wants folks to sign in aggressively. I think you can't fast-forward otherwise, but at least listening works without signing in.)
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by pas 2y ago
there are many definitions already. what's yours? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_definitions#List_of_d...
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by pas 2y ago
The point is that Taiwan is forced to maintain this position.
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by pas 2y ago
One one hand, indeed, we're approximately at "one quarterth" of the century. On the other a high-tech well-funded professional combined-arms military with total air supremacy in complete control of the perimeter is ought to
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by pas 2y ago
Thanks for the details! (Completely randomly just a few hours ago I got a many-many years old Tom Scott video recommended to me on YT about this topic.)
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by pas 2y ago
Having eligibility is not the same as passing unannounced random drug tests.
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by pas 2y ago
There's an optimum point. Too small is bad[1], too big is bad (too big to fail, regulatory capture, and sales driving out product[2]). [1] https://asteriskmag.com/issues/07/want-growth-kill-small-bus... [2] S
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by pas 2y ago
don't kinkshame the lovely people of the Isles, they apparently have a penchant for many things, like separate cold and hot water faucet and a bit of autoerotic asphyxiation.
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by pas 2y ago
the Amazon and Tesla model. lots of investors approve of it.

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