SonicDeathTaco

Spotify's shuffle tends to always pay the same stuff because Spotify is a scumbag company that nobody should use. Spotify prioritizes the tracks that cost them the least in royalties per stream. So, it's not that their shuffle algorithm is bad. It's that their shuffle algorithm is INTENTIONALLY bad to fuck over artist.

The bad user experience you get as a result is just collateral damage and they really couldn't give a fuck about that.

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At least it was a real name. Nowadays it seems like every new company's name is just a random jumble of letters solely because that .com was available.

NLRB edge is great if you like to nerd out on those sort of labor policy things. It has one of the only email newsletters that I actually read every time. Matt does good work. Check out the People's Policy Project.

I can't imagine looking at the world and thinking we need more industry. Also, I know a lot of PhDs. Knowing a lot of things about a particular subject in know way correlates with intelligence.

Totally. I live in a college town. I'm surrounded by mid-century-neoliberalism. There has developed a sizable unhoused population here, because of skyrocketing rents and the fact that there are actually a lot of us here who actually gives a shit and try to help. It's really pulled the mask off a lot of these folks.

And has an "In this house we..." sign in the front yard.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

Shit. I didn't realize that I was doing this to myself until I got diagnosed as an adult about 10 years after I quit smoking.

Nope. Not even close.

My grandmother started smoking after her doctor suggested that she take it up in order to help her lose weight after pregnancy. She smoked the rest of her life.

I would bet their not great people. There is probably a reason he grew into the awful person that he is. I would wager those are the same reasons he doesn't want to help them financially.