did piracy permanently devalue the music industry as claimed?
No - technology and population devalued music. How many influencers were around during the days of Kazaa? Versus how many are around now? It’s not only influencing that is oversaturated, it’s everything except boards and executives. Labor is weak and so the products of labor are devalued.
I hear Bill Ackman’s name far too little for as often as I have his paid opinions appear in front of my eyeballs. I’m not sure if he has pressured Adams directly as per this article, but I know he has been pulling strings with university admins.
I just got ghosted by the girl I was talking to, I want to find another girl to talk to. This girl and I met at the gym, but I don’t want to be the guy that goes to the gym just to meet girls. I mean sure there’s the bar and Tinder, but I want a real relationship. I mean, I guess it’ll come to me.
This isn’t the most practical advice but here it goes: Live your life, chase your passions, find community, volunteer your abilities, and work on fulfilling yourself. Along the way, keep an eye out for other lonely souls. At least this way, you’re more likely to be starting from some sort of common ground.
If you’re a bit of a black sheep locally, it can also really help (in a multitude of ways) to move somewhere that you fit in better. It’s unfortunate but true, at least in my observations.
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I was sure it was going to be evergrande and Chinese property?
It might have collapsed another economy, but I think China is relatively well-equipped for dealing with financial crises given the higher degree of state-planning and the lack of needing to be corporate capital havens. I think they were extremely wise to prioritize deleveraging individual investors like people buying homes for themselves (and wise to maintain a state that can facilitate such decision-making). In the end they got a surplus of housing and blew up some rent-seekers - pretty impressive imo!
This guy reeks of 19th century white male anthropologist.
I won’t disagree there. But I would like to pick your brain on various statements if you don’t mind.
The human enterprise is in overshoot; we exceed the long-term carrying capacity of Earth and are degrading the biophysical basis of our own existence. Despite decades of cumulative evidence, the world community has failed dismally in efforts to address this problem.
I assume we’re on the same page here, that the Earth is experiencing a biophysical/ecological crisis?
I argue that cultural evolution and global change have outpaced bio-evolution; despite millennia of evolutionary history, the human brain and associated cognitive processes are functionally obsolete to deal with the human eco-crisis. H. sapiens tends to respond to problems in simplistic, reductionist, mechanical ways. Simplistic diagnoses lead to simplistic remedies.
I expect you reject the evolutionary psychology perspective here, but would you agree that humanity’s cognitive behaviors are unsatisfactorily dealing with the ecological crisis?
Politically acceptable technical ‘solutions’ to global warming assume fossil fuels are the problem, require major capital investment and are promoted on the basis of profit potential, thousands of well-paying jobs and bland assurances that climate change can readily be rectified.
Okay so here the author is simply giving their definition of what they consider politically viable, not too important on its own except that they clearly don’t believe these “solutions” are adequate.
If successful, this would merely extend overshoot.
This is what I’m more interested in. Do you think that if our current solutions alleviate the immediate crisis, that this will put us further into overshoot? Or do you think politically viable solutions can lead to an outcome that diminishes capacity strain such as soil health and fertilizer usage?
Complexity demands a systemic approach; to address overshoot requires unprecedented international cooperation in the design of coordinated policies to ensure a socially-just economic contraction, mostly in high-income countries, and significant population reductions everywhere.
I’m going to toss in my own objection here: The author is not supported imo in saying population reductions “everywhere.” Even acknowledging that many lower income countries have inflated populations due to foreign capital ensuring labor power is minimized, there are some localities that simply do not have a density issue.
Would you agree, though, that significant population reduction at the global scale is necessary in our current state to eliminate long-term overshoot? And would you agree that high-income countries need to experience the most economic contraction?
The ultimate goal should be a human population in the vicinity of two billion thriving more equitably in ‘steady-state’ within the biophysical means of nature.
I’m not sold on the 2 billion number, but do you agree that a population reduction of some degree is necessary to attain an equitable steady-state, or in other words, to avoid collapse?
I find most of these statements to be relatively true and/or supported, and without an overt political orientation. It’s horribly written, but the most contentious parts I see are the 2 billion number and the conclusion that “everywhere” must experience population reduction. The evolutionary psychology statements could simply be replaced with “as you can see, our actions are not adequately addressing these issues” and it wouldn’t change much imo.
You call it ecofascist, but if it were better written (and preferably not in such libby language) I would cite this publication as a demonstration of why revolution against capital is the only hope of success and why the highest priority must be the degrowth of the imperial core. Maybe the author actually is my ideological enemy, but if so, in describing reality they couldn’t help but paint a picture of why fascism must be overthrown if we are to survive. Or at least that’s how I’m reading it, and I’m curious as to where you agree/disagree.
I lost some plants to cold snaps earlier in spring, after my losses during winter hardening. But the survivors are doing well, and most of the perennial garden plants are growing once again.
I’ve also had a lot of losses to the wildlife. I’m not sure if it’s because they are hungry, because they tend to cut the plants off at the base and not eat any of it. Maybe they don’t like my garden. Maybe they don’t like me? Either way, they eat plenty of the harvest, and they aren’t doing themselves any favors by biting the hand that feeds!
All-in-all, I am very pleased with the progress of the garden this year. At this rate, it should be substantial within 2-3 more years. The goal is a permaculture system so seeing the perennials doing well is a good sign. The soil is also slowly improving, although it has taken a lot of work and amendments. Hopefully I can get the plants well-established before the world gets too crazy. Then it’s up to them to try and adapt.
I wonder how much time that gives me? I feel like I’m going to be cutting it close. I don’t want to let me plants down. They deserve the best start I can give them heading into the pyrocene. 🥲
I’m not saying this explains all of it, but there is a lot more resistance to the mainstream culture now than in previous decades. That culture is the continuation of Roman Imperialism which is where shaving the face is adopted from. This was in contrast to other societies such as the Greeks and Vandals.
Of course not everyone wearing a beard is counter-culture, but the counter-culture is currently strong enough to influence acceptable trends. Looking like Zuck isn’t cool anymore. I would say this trend started many years ago with the hipsters, and has steadily expanded beyond that group.
BG3 will feel like an entirely complete game on its own. It is in the same world and has some recurring characters, but the game is designed for newcomers so they don’t assume that you know the characters and history.
For those who have played BG1/2, it starts off feeling more like a spiritual successor imo. But eventually you see how it all actually fits, and it fits very nicely. But that’s more of a bonus for return visitors to the Forgotten Realms because the game stands just fine on its own.
I see it referenced constantly here, not quite as much on Reddit. I know what it means, but just wondering why such the popularity over on this side of the fence?
Yeah it was fun in the beginning, after all who never thought about being transported to another world where you ate a big hero with swords and magic?...
That’s a tougher question. My guess is that it is serving as wish fulfillment through power fantasy. That sort of appeal can be more addictive for those it satisfies, I think.
HR is not your friend, but unless your colleague is C-level, HR probably isn’t their friend either. Just be mindful of workplace politics - but their behavior is not just toxic, it’s radioactive.
If you wanted to take it a step further, you might consider getting a bill for therapy sessions to support a lawsuit. You should probably seek out counsel if you go down that avenue, though.
“The fact that renewable energy is failing to decarbonize the electricity sector may surprise many readers accustomed to breathless reports of the rapid growth of renewable energy around the world. What Christophers means by this, though, is that while renewable energy is growing rapidly in many places, these increases are not...
I’ve been very busy this month, but there’s not much to report here: The world outside my window tells me everything is relatively normal, even though the world inside my screen reveals that is not so. Meanwhile I’m just chugging along and trying to take care of the plants.
The person I am talking about is Dr. Palaniappan Manickam aka Dr. Pal, a board-certified gastroenterologist from Sacramento, California, who is also a YouTuber. He’s created various videos targeting Indian netizens, most of which are decent, but not without adding his own twist of misinformation, that are considered...
I think they can probably be held liable if damages can be proven and litigation is initiated through the US court system, but that is a big undertaking.
YouTube has some algorithms set up to remove content that it believes is highly likely to lead to trouble for itself. They are legally compelled to not host certain types of content, but most removed content is not in this category and is instead removed for business/political/optics reasons. The algorithms are primed for moderating western content because that is where YouTube expects these legal/political risks to come from.
In other words it is a very leaky net and there is no serious desire to make it airtight because it’s not a matter of mandatory regulation, it’s a matter of risk management. (If it were regulatory then the platform wouldn’t realistically be able to exist in the form that it does.)
A New Documentary Traces How Piracy Overhauled the Music Industry (hypebeast.com)
May be of interest to fellow pirates… youtube trailer | invidious trailer...
Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats show (www.washingtonpost.com)
Monkeys are dropping dead from trees in Mexico as a brutal heat wave is linked to "mass deaths" (www.cbsnews.com)
Advice on finding a partner?
I just got ghosted by the girl I was talking to, I want to find another girl to talk to. This girl and I met at the gym, but I don’t want to be the guy that goes to the gym just to meet girls. I mean sure there’s the bar and Tinder, but I want a real relationship. I mean, I guess it’ll come to me.
Mastodon thread where a lib shuts down after getting owned (mastodon.social)
[for those who don't want to click the link, or for those with visual impairments]Snowshadow: > A message from Canadians to US citizens: Dear US, > As the smoke from our wildfires continue to pollute your air and many of you struggle to breathe please think about this: > If you chose to abstain from voting or do not vote Blue,...
#277: At the limits of monetary possibility (surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com)
Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers (www.tomshardware.com)
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What is your little slice of the internet that you own/maintain?
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLopDcjdhYBYkHE_nqV7QNz…...
Monthly observations thread May 2024
Why are many men growing beards again ? (lemmy.ml)
Yesterday I passed a barbershop and saw ads on their wall outside of men with beards and short hair. It is a revival or saving electricity ?
Kerbal Space Program 2 studio reportedly shut down by Take-Two (www.eurogamer.net)
Why is Lemmy obsessed with the word "enshittification"?
I see it referenced constantly here, not quite as much on Reddit. I know what it means, but just wondering why such the popularity over on this side of the fence?
Am I the only one who's sick of the isekai?
Yeah it was fun in the beginning, after all who never thought about being transported to another world where you ate a big hero with swords and magic?...
A colleague sent a video of a murder at work today and I'm still seething. What rights do I have? (UK)
It’s already well known at work that I don’t just not like gore videos but that I hate them and actively avoid them....
What is the next "big thing"?
Right now it seems like its "A.I.". Still big now are the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Recently we had COVID 19....
Can Wind and Solar Solve Climate Change? (foreignpolicy.com)
“The fact that renewable energy is failing to decarbonize the electricity sector may surprise many readers accustomed to breathless reports of the rapid growth of renewable energy around the world. What Christophers means by this, though, is that while renewable energy is growing rapidly in many places, these increases are not...
Monthly observations thread April 2024
Medical practitioner influencers who are spreading FUD and pseudo-science, can they be held liable in the USA? Do platforms they're on have no obligation to protect users from such harm?
The person I am talking about is Dr. Palaniappan Manickam aka Dr. Pal, a board-certified gastroenterologist from Sacramento, California, who is also a YouTuber. He’s created various videos targeting Indian netizens, most of which are decent, but not without adding his own twist of misinformation, that are considered...
Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness (www.afterbabel.com)