Ok but I'm not sure personally what my other option is? Of course there's buying the music directly, which good on people for doing that. It is the best and most ethical way. But something I always find kinda frustrating about the "just buy your own music" comments that are always all over these posts is I have a very wide music taste and really like to keep up with new music too. I have over 12,000 songs saved on Spotify. I'm also broke, jobless and homeless. I'm sorry but doing that isn't a viable option for me. I would love to be able to support all these artists but the best I can do is play their music a lot on Spotify and spread the word about them to others. I also go to a lot of gigs but so many acts that I like are big enough that they play big venues and are very expensive to see because of it.
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I already did this. I joined both, paid them money and then found out they were lacking these features after doing so. I gave them the feedback. Unfortunately the lack of them really gets in the way of how I like to listen to music. I'm sure others will be feeding back the same
Yeah I also saw that Tidal had announced they'd be scaling back the amount of funding on development fairly recently before I tried them out. Which didn't fill me with much hope. But I've not written them off at all. It's not like Spotify is really raising the bar at all these days anyway
As soon as Tidal or Qobuz add a couple real key functionalities that Spotify has but they don't I'm switching right over
Yep that gulf stream does a lot for us. But people generally don't know this as climate science is suppressed as much as possible by the powers that be. Gunna be a real fun time in the future
It's so funny she didn't wanna release it properly but then it blew up through no real effort of her own years down the line and people kept asking her to do a proper version over and over. So she did what people wanted and now people won't stop giving her shit for it. You really can't win with the internet nowadays
I've seen so many people saying that the reason they hate it so much is cos it's overused on tiktok and stuff. Ok so...is that her fault? It's also funny that people complain she didn't do anything different with the instrumentation when the Gotye original's is him sampling a song from the 60s and actually making it far simpler and less interesting
It's from Find Out Now so has to be taken with a pretty big pinch of salt. They've always given the left higher percentages than all other pollsters. But it's still something to be happy about. Let's keep that momentum going
Of course. Thankfully the BBC didn't minimise it to quite that extent, this time. I just think the general takeaway from the average person seeing this headline would be to think that it's likely going to be that or a bit over by 2050. It wasn't too long ago that many people in the UK were hearing small numbers like that and going "oh well it'd be nice if it got a bit warmer here, why is this a big deal?" Seems the massive uptick in heat waves in recent times, and how it's getting overtly worse each year, has put a stop to that though for the most part
Yes the warming will only increase by .5°C in the next 25 years. Absolutely that's only as far as it'll go
If this momentum that the Greens have right now continues consistently for the most part then I'm sure we'll see at least a few examples of Reform taking some seats. And it arguably being because the vote was split between Labour and Greens in the coming elections, including the GE. I believe we can have a good amount of faith that won't be the intended outcome though. But that's personal belief going off what we can see so far and the message they're giving, for now. We won't know until it happens and I don't deny that most politicians could be capable of this. But if that's the case, why have that be a reason not to join, if we have no believable indications it would be a thing with candidates in our areas? And they're espousing views that align with ours, and especially when there's no real alternative? What helps the Greens is how internally democratic they are and that they wouldn't allow someone to be a candidate when there's believable indications that they'd be shady. Obviously you bring up Zack's hypnotist mess but I don't think it indicates nearly strongly enough that he'd be corrupt. And also how, even if an elected official from them tried taking bribes, the rest of the party officials and it's members (of which there will be a huge number of) would be vehemently against it. With it not being something that's widespread throughout the party, unlike with the others, there wouldn't be this omertà-esque thing going on and it would be far more obvious. And also that when it is revealed to the public there isn't massive effort from all the powers in society in all their forms and the media, not just the party itself, to cover it up or minimise it. Obviously you can make your bag and run but it would have to be a short term thing and a lot higher risk, in this case. I understand your concerns after the shit we've had to deal with now and in the past, I really do. I just personally don't feel them with this party nearly enough to see it as a reason to not join them. Could change in the future, who knows? I might regret becoming a member. But fuck it, we need to get some big antifascist movement going on and no other large party seems willing to fully go for it
Edit: wow didn't realise how much of a wall of text I'd written there, typical leftist. Also I should say I understand that you haven't said your concerns aren't making you not want to join. I'm just speaking broadly of how trust is tied into all of these things
Ok but how would they go about grifting? Like I get that people putting trust in them and giving them power is a requirement for grifting, but there needs to be a method too. Their new core member and voter base is also going to be the wisest section of the electorate to that sort of thing too. It would also require a coordinated effort across the party. That's easy to do with Reform, the Tories, Labour and so on when they're committed capitalists who clearly aren't in it for morals and to make positive change and whose main source of income are big donors. I'm just struggling to envision it
Yes but as I say he made it far simpler and less interesting. So it's not like he's gone on and done some great musicianship with it. It's as close to just doing the same thing whilst still doing something that's it's own thing as can be. People are acting like she's taken his instrumentation and ruined it or something when it isn't his, for the most part. And to make it clear I don't think either of those, what Gotye or Doechii did, is a bad thing inherently. I personally like both songs. I don't get why people are so up in arms at her about it