Meanwhile on YouTube some dude in nowhere America has a set of videos showing how he can lift, rotate, leverage and pivot massive stone blocks and an entire house using stone-age technology… ropes and wooden levers… by himself!
Rogan appeals to people who want to hear that the world revolves around them. They believe and want to confirm that if they haven’t figured it out no one else has. They are literal morons, but too stupid to know it. They are extremely satisfied when Rogan panders to their narcissism.
The shanking of Ben Wagner is complete. The way Rogers treated an excellent and dedicated 17 year broadcaster with the team was inexplicable. Until now.
For TV manufacturers the 1K/4K/8K nonsense is a marketing trap of their own making - but it also serves their interests.
TV makers DON’T WANT consumers to easily compare models or understand what makes a good TV. Manufacturers profit mightily by selling crap to misinformed consumers.
“Muso, a research firm that studies piracy, concluded that the high prices of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are pushing people back towards illegal downloads. Spotify raised its prices by one dollar last year to $10.99 a month, the same price as Apple Music. Instead of coughing up $132 a year, more consumers...
Yah, and before that SoundJam, an indy app which Apple bought and re-skinned into iTunes.
At the time it was all wonderful and intuitive. Drag and drop everything, beautifully curated collections, simple and dependable, and sitting right there on your hard drive / iPod so you always had everything.
Now it’s all a sewer of bullshit, annoying and alienating to use, it makes music a miserable experience. They wonder why people don’t want to pay for it. And use the law to beat us over the head until we submit to our own misery.
We really gotta update consumer laws for the digital age so there’s a reasonable balance between corporations and consumers again.
In the background as the deal gets worse and there is no alternative offering a good deal with a good consumer experience then piracy rises. It always does. Companies will always complain piracy hurts them and the artists but all they have to do is be more reasonable.
There are no innocents here. There’ s a case to be made that nothing is more shady for consumers than the mass data harvesting, profiling, brokering and content shaping that flows from using Facebook, Twitter, Amazon or TikTok
Indeed! I introduced my kids to this through the example of our in-house Plex server, and it worked really well.
First they “get it” because Plex works like the streaming services they’re used to and they think “oh neat mom can do that too.”
Then they like it more because I show them how its streaming we can control ourselves - streaming home movies and pics really impresses this upon them.
And then they see that there’s no magic to where the content comes from – it’s a digital file on Plex just as it is on Netflix.
Yah, I remember paying like $10-15 mid 1990s for a single CD album. And we liked it! Easily spent a few hundred bucks a year on music.
I swear if these stupid music labels just switched to 5 cents a song, no DRM, own it forever, global distribution, bill you once a month to manage transaction fees – they’d make more money than god.
Some great pics from Mars showing the crashed Beagle probe and back shell from Perseverance smashed on the surface, among a few other bits and pieces that have smashed, crashed or otherwise littered Mars...
Oh dear sorry about that, its my first Lemmy post. I didn’t foresee that selecting an image for the post would replace the main link and turn it into a picture post. I have fixed the link!
I agree, I think the final resting spot of Ingenuity will be a sacred historical spot and well visited by tourists in 200 years! Or at least, I hope it is respected as such.
Small comfort, but the thing with Fascism is that it is a cult of power. Nobody is safe, anyone can be targeted, including those who support it most fervently. Anyone with half a brain knows that under fascism they’re one week and whim from being the next target, so know that you aren’t alone.
Anon experiences Joe Rogan (sh.itjust.works)
Cybertruck owner goes offroading, problems abound (www.theregister.com)
Light offroading in dry conditions and the Cybertruck completely failed....
Ben Shulman takes over as Sportsnet radio play-by-play broadcaster for the Blue Jays (www.thestar.com)
The shanking of Ben Wagner is complete. The way Rogers treated an excellent and dedicated 17 year broadcaster with the team was inexplicable. Until now.
Hottest January on record sees the world reach 1.7°C warming mark | January was the hottest on record, at 1.7°C above the pre-industrial average for the month. (www.newscientist.com)
This means there has been a 12-month period in which average global surface temperature was more than 1.5°C above the 1850 to 1900 average
If it ain't broke (startrek.website)
Music Piracy Is Back, Baby (gizmodo.com)
“Muso, a research firm that studies piracy, concluded that the high prices of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are pushing people back towards illegal downloads. Spotify raised its prices by one dollar last year to $10.99 a month, the same price as Apple Music. Instead of coughing up $132 a year, more consumers...
Map reveals all the space junk we've already littered on Mars (lemmy.world)
Some great pics from Mars showing the crashed Beagle probe and back shell from Perseverance smashed on the surface, among a few other bits and pieces that have smashed, crashed or otherwise littered Mars...
Elmo’s wellness check uncovers existential dread and despair on social media, nobody's ok right now (www.nbcnews.com)
Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade (mashable.com)