Agreed. Those fuckers are rich enough to treat workers fairly. Full stop.

Seems remarkably honest, much more honest than our presidential candidates.

I don’t know that a screenshot of twitter is proof of anything, especially after the proliferation of AI.

But, go read about the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. Even if I’m wrong in my opinion, you’ll learn some new things.

Yes.

The Pope has that power. Pretty much always has, but it was far more pronounced before universal literacy was a thing.

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Yeah, there was a TV show once where the plot of the episode was the theft of some new, important classified tech.

In the last scene the bad guy drops their suitcase and this important, secret tech falls out.

The prop master used vanilla, recognizable RAM chips. It annoyed me so much.

It’s a stupid religion and belief system.

This is just another example of why.

I respect that. If the Democratic or Republican Party wanted your vote, they should have done more to earn it.

I voted Green myself. I happen to live in a state where my vote doesn’t matter due to one candidate having a significant advantage, therefore, I might as well vote for the person I actually support.

This fascist asshole was caught on video stealing ballots and still has the stupidity to say the charges are “bumped up”.

Probably believes it too. MAGA people are very good at deluding themselves.

What really stuck out to me though wasn’t the election fraud here, but that Reuters pointed out specifically that voter and election fraud are rare occurrences in this country. I haven’t seen most news agencies specify that, and it’s an significant fact.

Please go look up the Dow as of October 1994.

Thank you.

In gambling, the house always wins, by extracting value from the players. In stock trading, the players (capitalists) collectively always win, by extracting value from labor, technological growth, and natural resources. These are not the same picture.

Excellent analogy. People who equate the stock market and gambling should go look up where the DJIA stood in October 1994. The slot machines in Vegas don’t magically start spitting out profit just because you’re patient, but stocks generally do over time.

True, but there were plenty of POC and Jewish collaborators the first time around.

Totally, man.

I’m sure they miss the two bucks a year they get off Spotify more than they like the $25 they get for a t-shirt from me.

The thief is Daniel Ek, and no one knows that better than recording artists.

This is the shit we need to be thinking about when we read about a black person getting shot by a cop for stealing a loaf of bread, if you ask me.

There are none.

All of the services steal from artists, so I’d recommend ripping MP3 tracks from Youtube. There are several tools online for this purpose. Yes, the artist gets nothing, but the more important thing is the services stealing from the artists don’t get anything either.

Do this and then compensate the artist in other ways. Buy music directly from them if you can, or buy their merch, or something of that ilk.

People know Weird Al’s an artist, and he used his Spotify Wrapped video last year to make a very public statement about how much money Spotify steals from artists: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/weird-al-yankovic-spotify-wrapped-video-criticism-1234905887/

Also that CEO has an eminently punchable face.

When I entered the work force in 2005, it was with a company that had never had a layoff in its thirty-year history.

Then, in 2009, they had their first layoff, and I learned later our CEO had taken an 80% pay raise that year.

Taxes aren’t theft. Literally firing people and taking their salaries is theft.

Same.

I will road trip or take a train instead of flying. I’d rather be on the road twelve hours than in a plane for one.

Just using the Brave browser takes care of a few of these by itself and without add-ons.