This was common advice for parents in the 80s and 90s. If someone had to pick me up from school unexpectedly my parents gave them a code word to tell me to let me know it wasn't a child abduction
At first this article reads like your typical anti-piracy screed. It rants about how 10x more people watched GoT illegally (confusing them with lost sales) and ends with how downloading movies can get your credit card stolen....
Radio stations in the US don't have to pay artists for playing their works for money. They claim that this provides free advertising which increases record sales.
Not sure why this works for music and not other forms of media.
The US is one of four countries in the world - including Iran, China, and North Korea - that doesn't force radio stations to pay artists royalties for using their music to make money. Seeding a torrent doesn't even make money.
I recently wrote a command-line utility lemmyverse to find communities indexed by Lemmy Explorer. A quick count shows almost 14%(!) of all communities indexed by lemmyverse are junk communities created by a single user @LMAO (reported here):...
I don't think Biden will intervene in this case. It's one company that's going on strike, not a whole system of transportation. The economic impact will be significant but limited, as there are others that will pick up what slack they can.
Of course, this means that to preserve the right to strike we need to break companies up so they're not too big to fail.
When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon"....
I reminded of the end of season 1 of Foundation, where the Foundation stayed hidden from the empire for a long time, growing in strength and technology.
My understanding of the word banger is it's reserved for good songs. There are many good slow songs as well, but the word banger seems to imply something more intense and bombastic. So, is it appropriate to describe slow songs as a banger?
Local elections have a lot more impact on your quality of life, and there's usually at least one every year.
The key to voting, as shown by the Evangelicals managing to overturn Roe, is to do it consistently. Every primary, every election, for decades. Unfortunately that's what it takes to effect change in our system of government.
Agreed, but state elections can also allow malicious actors to overrule federal mandates, like Medicaid. Besides, if you vote in every election you vote in the federal ones, too.
Walmart employees get a ton of welfare money but are still mistreated. It would be better for the workers if they had a say in how the company was run, rather than getting their employment subsidized by tax money.
The difference is that Oppenheimer was ostensibly in a race against a fascist regime to get the bomb, with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance.
Zuck and Musk and Jeff just want to make more money.
Dear community, often, when people mention they listen to “hard music”, I just don’t feel the energy in what they show me. Many times I get to hear just monotonous, noisy, wannabe-hard sounds, but they fail to “transport energy” to me. I am looking for absolute bangers, no matter the genre. Pretty much the pinnacle of...
It has begun !!! Now we need passwords for each other !! (lemmy.world)
The time has come for us to make passwords for identifying each other…
Game of Thrones was nearly "destroyed" by pirates illegally streaming HBO content (www.forevergeek.com)
At first this article reads like your typical anti-piracy screed. It rants about how 10x more people watched GoT illegally (confusing them with lost sales) and ends with how downloading movies can get your credit card stolen....
HEY LIBERAL I'M EXCITED TO SEE THE_PACK MIGRATED! (imgflip.com)
Deleting >4000 junk communities by @LMAO
I recently wrote a command-line utility lemmyverse to find communities indexed by Lemmy Explorer. A quick count shows almost 14%(!) of all communities indexed by lemmyverse are junk communities created by a single user @LMAO (reported here):...
For the first time in 51 years, NASA is training astronauts to fly to the Moon hi (arstechnica.com)
LIBERATE (lemmy.world)
MY MADNESS
The decentralized web is growing (jlai.lu)
Teamsters president says he's asked the White House not to intervene if UPS workers go on strike (apnews.com)
Business cat being unprofessional (files.catbox.moe)
And I will walk 500 miles and I will walk 500 more. (i.imgur.com)
I have a theory that the more lore a franchise has, the more of an autistic fanbase it has. I made a graphic about it. (lemmy.ml)
Dont take it too seriously. This is just for fun.
A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out" (privacy.thenexus.today)
When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon"....
There’s simply no way (lemmy.world)
Can slow songs be a banger?
My understanding of the word banger is it's reserved for good songs. There are many good slow songs as well, but the word banger seems to imply something more intense and bombastic. So, is it appropriate to describe slow songs as a banger?
How the Supreme Court put itself in charge of the executive branch (www.vox.com)
The major questions doctrine, explained.
Billionaires aren't okay — for their mental health, time to drastically raise their taxes (www.salon.com)
From threatening cage matches to backing RFK Jr., billionaires prove too much money detaches a person from reality
Reddit now won't let non-logged in users see subreddits until they've been "reviewed" (lemmy.world)
This is literally just the r/nyt subreddit about The New York Times....
Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a warning for Silicon Valley (lemmy.world)
theverge.com...
Midwest billboard (midwest.social)
If replicators were real (sh.itjust.works)
What are the hardest hitting, aggressive songs you know about? (www.youtube.com)
Dear community, often, when people mention they listen to “hard music”, I just don’t feel the energy in what they show me. Many times I get to hear just monotonous, noisy, wannabe-hard sounds, but they fail to “transport energy” to me. I am looking for absolute bangers, no matter the genre. Pretty much the pinnacle of...
I wonder why rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Sweet - The Ballroom Blitz (youtu.be)