This is the way

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Until they’re deported to a prison death camp in El Salvador … Assuming you’re from America

I stopped using Spotify long ago because of their shitty business practices. Producing a product they killed support for within just a couple years without reimbursing customers and producing huge amounts of e-waste. Jacking their subscription prices twice in one year. Apparently, they also donated to Trump despite not being an American company?? That’s to say nothing of their shitty recommendation algorithm, which just plays your most played tracks over and over. Good riddance.

For those interested, I use Tidal now. I’m satisfied with, their recommendation algo is fine and the higher quality streaming is really nice but nothing I’ve used has ever been as good as Google Play Music, I found so much good music though that service and could upload whatever I was missing. Once Tidal inevitably pisses me off, I’m going to move on to self hosting.

Welcome to the 2020s! Fun times all around.

They aren’t powerless though. The Republicans only have a slim majority. It would currently take only 4 Republicans in either chamber to kill any legislation (so long as no Dems also flipped).

It never seems to be a problem for Republicans to get in the way of legislation when they’re in the minority.

For reference, $10M is 1% of $1B. Jeff Bezos is worth $225B, so that would be 1/225 of 1% for him to foot the bill. Considering there are many other multi-billionaires living on that island, that brings our fraction of a single percent of their collective wealth closer and closer to effectively zero.

The greed of billionaires is unfathomable.

“My Lord, is that… legal?”

“I’ll make it legal!”

Heartbreaking to see, but sadly it was only a matter of time until something like this happened. This war on Gaza is growing increasingly unpopular and people feel powerless to stop the ongoing genocide being conducted by Israel. I don’t support attacks against random civilians but I’m not surprised somebody saw an opportunity to make a statement. These deaths are on Netanyahu along with the tens-of-thousands of Palestinians killed since the war started.

I never knew just tuck was something somebody could actually do and now I’m scared…

I’ve been saying for the past decade that I think the federal government holds way too much power and needs to dissolve. The country is too big for how centralized the power is and the states cannot effectively satisfy their constituents’ needs when they’re so beholden to federal interests. I love the state and city that I live in and I don’t want to have to move across the world in order to live somewhere with sane politics but I’m sick of progress here being delayed because so many of our resources are going to the federal government and being compromised by the interests of the other 98% of the country.

“To Serve and Protect…”

“What could raising a child cost? $5000?”

“You’ve never actually raised a child, have you?”

So the snakes that come up from the sewer can escape when the lid is closed.

Cutting off your nose to spite China

Lol what’s he going to do at Tesla? More false promises of self-driving by the end of the year? Robot butlers that are totally not just being controlled remotely by some guy in a VR suit?

Encryption should be no more a crime than locking your house or storing your valuables in a safe.

Empty words to garner sympathy and cover their own asses.

Do I hold resentment against my parents for subjecting me into this bullshit of a world? Not really… They couldn’t have known it was going to get this bad three decades ago.

Do I intend on subjecting another human to this bullshit of a world? Hell no! I decided long ago that if I ever wanted kids than I was going to adopt. There’s people out there who’ve got it worse than I do and I would rather help improve the life of somebody who’s already here than bring in a whole new consciousness all for the sake of continuing my genetic legacy.